I'm a meditator, artist, and creative in the television industry working in Los Angeles.  You've likely seen my work as an environment artist in at least one of the several television shows or films I have worked on over the years.  Most people in my circles know me for that - but there's so much more to my story.

After a series of life events culminated in my inability to ignore the level of stress, anxiety, and overwhelm, I was fruitlessly trying to manage on a daily basis - I got serious about my meditation practice. 

I had been meditating off and on my whole adult life, but it wasn't until I hit the bottom that I really doubled down on my commitment to regular practice.  It absolutely helped. 

Within a year of full time practice, I had fundamentally shifted the way in which I approached the world.  I finally had the courage to ask for what I wanted at work and moved into a full-time, creative role.  The work I did around attachment and meditation began to have seriously positive benefits for my friendships and other relationships, too.  I understood how to make new friends, how to ask for what I needed from my friends, and how to best grow my friendships.  My relationships grew stronger while my daily anxiety noticeably diminished. 

Practice helped me to make peace with uncertainty, change, and my own fears.  My regular practice allowed me to recognize what I really needed to be fulfilled and gave me the courage to ask for it.

I remember the surprise when I realized I no longer woke immediately anxious with a tight chest or ruminating thoughts.  I didn’t even notice when the switch happened - only in retrospect did I realize that it hadn’t happened in quite a while!  

With a year of daily practice and residential retreat time - all the fear and anxiety around pursuing meaning in my life loosened its grip. Everything began to flow with more ease.

I continue to discover more and more personal benefits as my practice progresses.  There is a continual loosening of subtler layers of anxiety, a constant growth in my personal relationships, and a deeper interest in being of meaningful service to others.

I've worked with many amazing teachers over the years, and the deepest of bows go to all of them*.

My primary teacher is George Haas. His work around the intersection of Attachment Theory, Insight meditation techniques, and Imaginal practice has deeply informed how to practice myself and how I am inspired to help others.   Through George I was introduced to Dr. Dan Brown who, in his work as a psychology professor at Harvard, has pioneered research into attachment conditioning and repair using methods derived from the traditional visualization practices of the Tibetan Bon Tradition, in which he is a long-time practitioner, meditation master, and friend. 

I am also a student of Shinzen Young and have sat with him on residential retreats, day-longs, and extended workshops.  

I am in deep gratitude for his work developing the elegant system of Unified Mindfulness, which brings all the complexities of the world’s wisdom traditions together with western psychology and neuroscience research into one package that is rigorous, sound, and easy to learn.

I have most recently had the pleasure in working one-on-one with Michael Taft, further exploring techniques to explore consciousness and work with creativity, visualization, and the imaginal.

My interests are interwoven between many subject areas - meditation certainly, but also in the many other ways humans have made meaning in their lives in the investigation of consciousness and creativity throughout time. I'm inspired by the many explorations of the imaginal - including the active imagination work of CG Jung and his students.   I'm interested in the liminal states of consciousness developed in the ancient systems of the Dream Yogas through the contemporary work on Liminal Dreaming, and sleep science.

As a natural extension of my interest and fascination with Depth Psychology, I have also worked with the Tarot for over 15 years as a tool for self-development, discovery, and as a creative outlet.  

I recently completed studying with Lindsay Mack in her system of Soul Tarot. Mack’s system is the perfect synastry of mindfulness practice and tarot for the present moment; a system that served to blow open to me the possibilities available in combining these practices.

As a lifelong artist, I am committed to practices that help to open the creative process.   A creativity that helps access the imagination so as to open us up to the vastness of personal meaning-making in the world; to overcome our fears and anxieties; and to grant us courage to face with grace what seems unfaceable.