Where I’m coming from

I hail from an illustrious lineage of fortune tellers, yogis, folk healers, troubadours and poets of the fine and mystical arts. Shape-shifting Tantric Siren of the Lunar Mysteries, I surf the ebbs and flows of the multiverse on the Pure Sound of Creation. My alchemy is Sacred Folly — revolutionary transformation through Love, deep play, Beauty, and music.

I believe creativity, love, kindness, radical authenticity, and self-care are imperative for a just and sustainable world.

This is where my imagination experiments go:

art
music
words
somatics
cosmic co-creation
love

Come play with me!

Artist Statement

My work is a physical response to my relationship with Nature and how I move through it. I’m not satisfied with skittering along the surface, with looking at the world from a distance—I have to dive in, get dirty. Whether I’m mountain biking, meditating, teaching, writing or painting, I explore the edges, the places of shift and change, where the thin quiver of constant movement along boundaries is almost unseen. Pushing the edge requires being in the moment; it can be prickly, sharp, and jagged—it can also be fun, expansive, and sublime. My work often begins as a meditation in agitation. Pressing the surface of discomfort, moving with the medium, creates a shift. The result is playful and raw. I know a piece is done when I step back and find myself dancing.

For a full list of the work I do, check out my CV.

I believe in Sacred Folly

Sacred Folly is the power to: dream, love, create, relate, connect, laugh, eat, sing, dance, make music, make love, embrace, kiss, share, play, make magic, write, paint, sleep.

Sacred Folly is the power of: bicycles, books, art, music, compassion, self-acceptance, love, joy, vulnerability, food, gardens, nature, culture, community, sustainability, and daydreams.

Sacred Folly is the willingness to act for what is good and beautiful and true.

Teaching

I have been studying yoga and the subtle energy systems since the late 1980s.

My mission is to explore self-expression, health, and sustainability through love, deep play, radical self-acceptance, joyful responsibility, and co-creation. As a yoga teacher, body awareness and compassion are my focus. As a writing instructor, I motivate participants to transcend the “inner critic” by tapping into physical awareness and compassion and allowing the body to have a voice. I believe everyone’s story has value, and the diversity of our individual experience is essential to our collective evolution.

Victory

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places (and there are so many) where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” -Howard Zinn, patriot, historian, and author