About me
​I grew up in the middle of the Canadian prairies and I am the first generation in my lineage to be born on Turtle Island on the lands of the Anishnabe, Cree, Dene, Métis, and Dakota peoples. I descend from hard-working, kind, community oriented people. People who carried trauma as well as strength, and whose lives were in service to making beauty out of the ashes of unimaginable destruction.
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Professionally, I spent the first part of my career working as a leader and educator for fellowship programs that brought young people together to explore earth-based spirituality, intentional community, and food security. I worked as farm manager and educator for the ADAMAH fellowship and later co-founded and designed Urban Adamah, an urban farm in Berkeley, CA. Working with Salt Spring Seeds, I fell in love with seed saving and studied permaculture as an intern at the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead as well as served as intern coordinator for their renowned internship program. I was project coordinator for the Tel Sheva Desert Medicine Learning Site with environmental justice organization BUSTAN in the Negev desert, working with Bedouin project partners to create a traditional medicine site rooted in their traditional knowledge around desert plant medicine and natural building. I have coordinated Permaculture Design Certifications and taught countless workshops pertaining to earth-tending including seed saving, soil building, fermentation, grafting and fruit tree propagation. As a cultural architect, I worked for 2 years as the Director of Community Programs for Wilderness Torah, helping to design, plan, and oversee inter-generational, community scale gatherings, festivals, and rituals.
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My path has me deeply inquiring and exploring what healthy culture can look like amidst the cultural disintegration of these times. I have committed myself to making a study of village mindedness, food system resiliency, and personal healing and I am passionate about how these 3 things converge to bring beauty and aliveness to the world.​​​​​​
To my healing work, I bring my expertise as a Registered Acupuncturist and I hold a 4-years Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. I have run my private practice at Madrona Integrative Health clinic and practiced community acupuncture at Kokorocare TCM clinic on Salt Spring Island.
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More recently I have dived deeply into studies in psycho-therapeutic healing, through Gabor Maté's Compassionate Inquiry program, and Zachary Feder's Trans-Discplinary Healer Training & Clinical Alchemy intensives. I trained in community Rites of Passage facilitation through Darcy Ottey and Shay Sloan's Rites and Responsibilities program.
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I bring a de-colonizing, liberation oriented, compassionate, and inclusive lens to the work I do.​ The medicine path that I walk is rooted in remembrance of our interconnection with all Life. It is a path that honours the healing energy of the natural world, the resiliency of community, and the guidance of Spirit. It is a commitment to serving the life force that lives at the heart of them all. It is a commitment to Love and to Loving.
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To learn more about my approach as a practitioner of integrative healing, please click here.
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