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Travel and people of the earth are a passion of mine. I love to have new adventures with others who like to engage in deep conversations about love and spirituality, or for that matter about anything else, and live knowing that one bottom line exists only to lead to another one.

On my website www.gemfireair.com you will find my writing, poetry, and a weekly article about whatever is up...from politics and mythology to sex and spirituality.

Photography and all of the arts give me great pleasure; they provide music to my ears, movement to my cellular senses, and beauty to my vision.

Academically, I am a BS and MA, hold a graduate degree in Somatic Psychology and Jungian Studies, and am a group instructor of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Additionally, I have undertaken graduate studies in Contemplative Psychotherapy at Naropa University.

As a somatic-trauma therapist, I seek to guide those who wish to resolve the effects of past trauma using the practice of Mindfulness, Body and Breath Awareness, and a technique I coined, BodyTracking.

A writer, poet and artist, teacher, photographer, and lecturer, I have taught and presented women’s spiritual workshops and seminars from the east coast to California.

My repertoire includes Soul Dancing, a book that is in progress — a personal account of healing the brain from a closed-head injury that I sustained in an automobile accident; a shamanic soul journey which took me through several brushes with death, an unexpected visit before a twenty-foot angel with a sword, and to a remote cabin tucked away in the deep ponderosa forest of northern New Mexico, where I regained my life force.

Presently, I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.