Thirty-five years studying what the body can recover from — starting with my own.
At eleven, my leg was crushed by a horse. That moment began a lifelong fascination with the body and its capacity to heal through manual therapy — a fascination I've spent the last thirty-five years studying and practicing.
By the time I finished high school I already had three years as an athletic trainer and physical therapist assistant behind me. I went on to play college soccer while studying exercise science and kinesiology — and to live through it as a patient too: three ACL reconstructions, bilateral ankle reconstruction, and bilateral shoulder surgeries. Those years taught me something I carry into every session: the body can be your greatest buildable asset and your most fragile weakness, often at the same time.
When I moved to California, I was fortunate to find a massage school connected directly to the Old Medicine Hospital and the teachings of Dr. Shivagokomarpaj, the father doctor of Thai medicine. Northern traditional Thai — distinct from the Southern, Wat Po style — has been handed down four generations, developed by Ajahn Sintorn. I studied under his grandson, Ajahn Wasan, and went on to assist teaching at the school for a year.
Northern Thai is its own form. Its roots reach back through Wat Po's original Southern style into the ancient yoga of India from thousands of years ago, infused with the intuitive understanding and wisdom of the culture that carried it.
Leaving massage school, I wanted to bridge Eastern and Western medicine. I was drawn to the holistic, full-body treatment of the Thai teachings, and I kept finding my sports-medicine background coming into the therapeutic work. So I added another 120 hours of European osteopathic manual articulatory technique.
The result is a practice where no two sessions are the same — fusing Eastern and Western medicine to support the whole person, never following a set sequence, always working toward a better quality of life.