I trained at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque under Dr. Vasant Lad. After graduating, I was incredibly blessed to serve as his scribe and the main practitioner at his panchakarma healing resort in Asheville, NC. For two years I also taught Srotamsi, the channels of the body, bridging classical Ayurvedic anatomy and physiology with Western frameworks so students could hold both ways of seeing. At the same time, I supervised in the student clinic, saw my own clients, and moderated the seasonal home cleanses three times a year. Over the course of this time, I've been fortunate to have served hundreds of clients one-on-one and guided well over a thousand individuals through Ayurvedic cleanses as taught within Dr. Lad's lineage.

This is the lens I bring to coaching: classical Ayurveda from a respected lineage, real clinical hours, a teacher's love for making complex systems understandable, and a deep appreciation that we are not separate from the world we're moving through.

Before Ayurveda found me, I worked seasonally as a snowboard instructor, on farms in Sweden, Hawaii, and Virginia, as a youth leadership counselor and outdoor education instructor, and then eventually became Program Supervisor at Hidden Villa Summer Camp and High Trails Outdoor Science School. I was actually living and working in New Zealand for six months when Ayurveda found me.

Those years shaped how I practice now. When you spend that much time outside, you stop thinking of seasons as a backdrop and start feeling them as the same seasons our bodies' inner climates are cycling through. Healing, too, has rhythms, as does digestion, sleep, energy, detoxification. Supporting clients through a deep metabolic reset that creates powerful shifts at the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level, and making those shifts sustainable, has become my passion.

My practice is rooted in classical Ayurveda, with a focus on personalized home cleanses and coaching to sustain the benefits in real life. Traditional Ayurvedic cleanses are profoundly effective, but they also ask a lot of the client. They require an openness to practices foreign to many westerners, like drinking large amounts of herbal ghee and doing herbal enemas. They're also often built around a mono-diet of daal and rice, which works beautifully inside the cleanse but doesn't give clients a clear framework for which foods best support them once it ends.

I wanted to find a system of cleansing that was more accessible and that gives clients a clear understanding of what to eat for the rest of their lives. That's especially true for clients with more Kapha dosha, the earth and water elements, who naturally tend to build and retain more weight, adipose tissue, fluids, and the toxins those tissues often store.

That's where Metabolic Balance has become an extraordinary tool in my practice. The plans are deeply Ayurvedic in how they support Kapha, kindle agni, manage insulin, and promote detoxification and rejuvenation. They give clients a clear, sustainable framework for the foods and portions that genuinely serve their unique biochemistry (which we call doshas!).

What clients receive working with me, beyond the MB plan itself, is the full lens of Ayurveda layered alongside it. That includes Ayurvedic assessment, tongue, nails and face analaysis, herbal education tailored to their constitution, and lifestyle rituals (dinacharya) that support the body's natural rhythms. Supporting digestion, detoxification, and elimination through the MB process, gently and effectively, is my bread and butter.

My practice lives at this intersection: classical Ayurvedic principles paired with Metabolic Balance to give clients a long-term nutritional foundation tailored to them. Both honor the same truth: real healing is personalized and deeply respectful of the body's intelligence.