My Philosophy

I believe in the goodness of living in balance and connection with the natural world. I believe in order to be whole, to be healthy, to be happy and fully alive we must come into harmony with the world outside our skin, and take in the abundance, the pureness, the vitality of the outside world into our bodies, minds, and spirits. To achieve this, I employ an integrative approach, using sound (Sound Healing), energy (Reiki), and food (Herbalism) to support the body’s natural systems.

As a classically trained professional musician, I’ve long experienced how sound has the power to affect mood and state of mind. Both the sounds we make and the sounds in our environment can influence our well being. As a Sound Healer, I use my intuition to create sounds to work with your nervous system to guide you into deeper state of relaxation where your body has the space to do its healing work.

As a Reiki Master, I guide energy for the purpose of alleviating metaphysical and emotional blockages. The Shamanic belief is that affecting the inner world (spirit, aura, psyche) will influence the outer world (physical ailments or manifestations). I also work with emotional cord cutting and clearings.

As an Herbalist, I recognize that Herbalism is a lifestyle choice. Herbalism is choosing to consciously connect with the natural world through the foods that we eat, the substances we put into your body (sustenance, air, water, other people’s moods and energy, and even the types of media we consume), and the way we move through our daily living. Choosing minimally processed foods, seeking moments in the woods and fields, pausing for a time in water for a swim in the lake or a hot relaxing bath are all ways to connect with Earth, and reconnect with ourselves. Herbalists utilize plants as medicine, and believe in food as medicine, but the actions we make and our mindset also affect our health. A holistic herbal approach recognizes this and plans accordingly.

I believe the life of the herbalist, the life of the healer and seeker, is to nourish the roots of our beings through connection to and kinship with plants and herbs. We are not divorced from nature; we are nature. To be separated from the natural world is to be separated from ourselves.

The intention of the herbalist is to reconnect with ourselves through connection with the natural world. If this is also your intention, then now is the time to act. Your health, and your life, depends on it.