About Me

Since I was a little girl, I have been fascinated with the whole pregnancy process.  It's so incredible that a tiny egg and a wee sperm meet and 9 months later... a BABY!  To this day, I'm completely blown away by this miraculous science.  Touching a pregnant belly and feeling the baby move never gets old for me.  It is so amazing.

I began this journey right around my 30th birthday (I think my biological clock was ticking but I wasn't ready to have my own yet).  I decided to go to massage school so that I could help pregnant women with their aches and pains.  I went to the Institute of Psycho-Structureal Balancing in Culver City.  I immediately loved being a bodyworker and within a year, I was licensed, insured and had an exciting, growing practice working with pregnant women.

In 2006, I began to take my yoga practice to the next level.  I did my first yoga teacher training at Yogaworks.  I apprenticed with Juliette Kurth at Silver Lake Yoga and soon thereafter began to teach prenatal yoga.  I did a second teacher training with Erich Schiffman, a prenatal teacher training with Shiva Rea, and a therapeutic yoga teacher training with Cheri Clampett in Santa Barbara.  Currently, Juliette Kurth and I are co-teaching an 85 hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training at Silver Lake Yoga.  This training is the first training to comply with Yoga Alliance’s Prenatal Yoga Standards and leading to a Yoga Alliance Prenatal Yoga Specialty Certification.

In 2008, my interests turned towards childbirth and I began to attend births as a doula.  After just a couple of births, I was completely hooked.  I love this work and seeing the birth process up close and personal greatly informed both my massage practice and my prenatal yoga teaching.  My work had a much more distinct purpose- to help prepare a woman's body and mind for this incredible, transformative experience.  I did my DONA training with Penny Simkin (author of The Birth Partner) and Patricia Predmore.  My work as a doula has been greatly affected by the work of two amazing midwives, both of whom I’ve been so lucky to do workshops with: Gail Tully (author of www.spinningbabies.com) and Naoli Vinaver.  

2009 was a big year for me.  I got to experience pregnancy first hand.  My daughter, Hazel, was born on October 30, 2009 at UCLA under the care of their spectacular team of midwives.  My husband Ted and I truly loved the experience of Hazel's birth.  I will never forget this incredibly beautiful day.

That same year, I became a Childbirth Educator with CAPPA, a fabulous organization dedicated to empowering women and families through education.  Currently I’m not teaching group classes, although I use so much of my childbirth education skills with my doula clients.  I do teach private childbirth classes.

I love my work so much and feel blessed to be in the lives of all these blooming women and their growing families.  I love to nurture moms and moms-to-be.  After all, no one deserves a delicious massage or a nice long savasana more then a pregnant woman.

Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions about your pregnancy or birth.  I would be more than happy to help you in any way I can.