Workshops and speaking engagements includes such topics as:

• Motivation
• Stress management
• Wholistic healing
• Ritual
• Seasonal living
• Reiki

Weddings & more

I believe spirituality is a personal expression. As a Minister of the Universal Life Church, I can provide spiritual counseling as well as create and perform personalized rituals and legal ceremonies.

• Personalize your wedding
• Honor your divorce
• Remember a loved one in a memorial
• Prepare for a birth or death
• Cleanse and bless your home or office
• Perform rites of passage: into manhood, womanhood or becoming an elder
• Find personal clarity and make important decisions
• Build your own spiritual practice
• Name your baby

I draw eclectically from various belief systems, including Taoism, Buddhism, Wicca and other worldwide indigenous healing practices and spiritual systems. These systems all honor the Divinity within each of us and see nature’s cycles as mirrors for the cycles in our lives.

In our Western culture, we have largely lost touch with the power of ritual, valuing instead our rational, scientific models of understanding ourselves and the world. This absence has left many of us ill-equipped to deal with major life transitions such as becoming a mother, entering or leaving a marriage or coping with grief and loss.

By acknowledging the language and wisdom of the imagination we can use creative expression to reconnect with the deepest parts of ourselves. Whether through poetry, dance, music, or chanting the mixture of art and ritual can help restore the cohesion of body, mind and spirit, not only for the individual but also for the larger community. Ritual enlarges our vocabulary for understanding and articulating our experiences. It helps us create a sacred context for those experiences.

As an extension of my dedication to healing and empowerment, I have devoted considerable time to studying and incorporating ritual into my life and into the life of my community.