About me
​I grew up in the middle of the Canadian prairies and I am the first generation in my lineage to be born on Turtle Island on the lands of the Anishnabe, Cree, Dene, Métis, and Dakota peoples. My grandparents on my mother's side were Ashkenazi Polish Jews who migrated to Canada as holocaust survivors in the early 1950s in search of a place to recover, heal, and start life anew. My dad's side of the family, also Ashkenazi Polish Jews, are from a socialist-marxist community (called a kibbutz), that centered equality and working the land together. I come from hard-working, kind, community oriented people. People who carried trauma as well as strength, and whose lives were in service to making beauty out of the ashes of unimaginable destruction.
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Professionally, I spent the first part of my career working as a leader and educator for fellowship programs that brought young people together to explore earth-based spirituality, intentional community, and food security. I worked as farm manager and educator for the ADAMAH fellowship and later co-founded and designed Urban Adamah, an urban farm in Berkeley, CA. Working with Salt Spring Seeds, I fell in love with seed saving and studied permaculture as an intern at the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead as well as served as intern coordinator for their renowned internship program. I was project coordinator for the Tel Sheva Desert Medicine Learning Site with environmental justice organization BUSTAN in the Negev desert, working with Bedouin project partners to create a traditional medicine site rooted in their traditional knowledge around desert plant medicine and natural building. I have coordinated Permaculture Design Certifications and taught countless workshops pertaining to earth-tending including seed saving, soil building, fermentation, grafting and fruit tree propagation. As a cultural architect, I worked for 2 years as the Director of Community Programs for Wilderness Torah, helping to design, plan, and oversee inter-generational, community scale gatherings, festivals, and rituals.
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My path has me deeply inquiring and exploring what healthy culture can look like amidst the cultural disintegration of these times. I have committed myself to making a study of village mindedness, food system resiliency, and personal healing and I am passionate about how these 3 things converge to bring beauty and aliveness to the world.​​​​​​
To my healing work, I bring my expertise as a Registered Acupuncturist and I hold a 4-years Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. I have been in private practice at Madrona Integrative Health clinic and practiced community acupuncture at Kokorocare TCM clinic on Salt Spring Island.
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More recently I have dived deeply into studies in psycho-therapeutic healing, through Gabor Maté's Compassionate Inquiry program, and Zachary Feder's Trans-Discplinary Healer Training program. I recently was trained in community Rites of Passage facilitation through Darcy Ottey and Shay Sloan's Rites and Responsibilities program.
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I bring a de-colonizing, liberation oriented, compassionate, and inclusive lens to the work I do.​ The medicine path that I walk is rooted in remembrance of our interconnection with all Life. It is a path that honours the healing energy of the natural world, the resiliency of community, and the guidance of Spirit. It is a commitment to serving the life force that lives at the heart of them all. It is a commitment to Love and to loving.
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To learn more about my approach as a practitioner of integrative healing, please click here.
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