Taoism, traditional healing practices, and modern body science. I would dive in headfirst and gulp down as much knowledge and wisdom as I could. I truly can go down a rabbit hole with the best of them! Now, I have as much as 15 years of study and experience in some of these systems and continue to explore and deepen my understanding. I consider myself a “hobbyist” in almost all of them, but there was something deeper they each provided me.

While I dove into these systems, I always felt like there was something I was searching for. Puzzle pieces of my Self and my work hidden within piles of books and articles. Some of it was just information, but much of it was a discovery of bits and pieces of something that felt like Truth - a shared and common Truth that every system points to in its own way. I held a deep resonance with this feeling of Truth and felt drawn to seek it out.

I have taken many spiraling roads. I spent 8 years as a deep tissue massage therapist and craniosacral practitioner. I became a certified VITA Sex, Love, and Relationships coach (an approach to transformational embodiment that interweaves Tantric and Taoist practices with modern scientific self-development). I learned deep psychological and spiritual healing, often through meeting my own breaking point over and over and navigating my way through it wholeheartedly. During this time, I came into deep reverence for the wisdom of the body and the mechanical and spiritual interplay there. I learned many times over that there is no separation of body and spirit. Physical bodywork is also energy work, and vice-versa.

Finally, life circumstances aligned to send me a powerful message: It was time to come home, back to my roots, both literally and figuratively. I left massage therapy and coaching and joined Lorian. I began by co-teaching a few classes with David Spangler (who is, incidentally, my papa), and after about 8 months, I accepted that my heart was with Lorian for the long haul.

It’s funny; sometimes, we move away from our roots, searching for something, only to come back and realize that what we were looking for was waiting for us back at the beginning all along. Through all my study of spirituality and esoteric studies, traditional and modern healing approaches, self-development, and transformational sciences, I never found anything that could hold a candle to the clarity and depth of Incarnational Spirituality. I was seeking that feeling of Truth, and in all honesty, that resonance is available to us through many pathways - there is no ‘one right path’ of spirituality, and please don’t trust anyone who says there is. For those that are looking for deep spiritual Truth, all paths will bring you there, because it is your bigger self leading the way. It was never something external to who you are!

However, for me, Incarnational Spirituality is the path that has my whole heart and devotion. It is my pleasure and profound honor to get to care for this lineage that is, in many ways, still growing and landing. I hope it transmits something precious for you, as it has for me.