My practice of the healing arts is informed by 20 years of study and practice in mystical and animist traditions including Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese metaphysics, European and West Asian folk magic, and Microanimism.

For me, the practice of the healing arts, ‘fine’ arts, folk craft, ritual and divinatory arts are not fundamentally separable. It is the interweaving of these threads that creates the body of my work. Basically, I fucking love magic.

Magic is present in the transformation that occurs when herbs compound to create a remedy, when pigments and light dance together to create an image, when needles allow a person to release pain and experience ease, when microbes turn the dead into soil, and uncountable other moments both ordinary and sublime. Each moment brings an opportunity to recognize the magic of transformation. Being able to use my skills and hands to help others experience transformation is an incomparable joy.

My path of practice began when I started studying Tibetan Buddhism two decades ago. Inspired by my faith, I cultivated a devotional practice of ritual art, moved to north India, became a Tibetan language interpreter, and began 10 years of study, translation and practice of Traditional Tibetan Medicine.

When I returned to the US, I studied Traditional Chinese Medicine and earned a Masters in Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in NYC. After graduating, I worked for several years at a fast-paced practice in NYC focused on reproductive health. There I gained an enormous amount from working with a high volume of patients, addressing a wide range of reproductive health problems, alongside digestive, metabolic, mental-emotional, immune, and sleep issues.

The most essential thing I learned in working in that environment though, is that the body is older than capitalism. Our bodies are descended of ancient stuff, and the imposition of extractive logics upon them comes at an enormous toll. We are meant to lie idle and feel the dirt. There are no substitutes for time spent speaking with a tree or yearning towards the sky.

Despite being personally something of a Luddite, my healing practice is thoroughly integrative. I fully support people making use of the tools of modernity to do whatever they want with their forms. But we cannot outrun our animal bodies. And so I’ve set out to create a practice that honors that truth, that allows me space to express my wholeness and meet people in theirs.

Welcome.