About me
My own journey, like that of many seekers, began with a search for wholeness — a need to alleviate the suffering I felt within.In hindsight, the angst that began in my early teens was not tied to any one circumstance. It was a fundamental longing — the kind that seems to come with human birth. A feeling of being separate, alienated by the thought-constructs of the individual mind.I practiced guided meditations on cassette tapes. I ran. I searched for God. I found relief in movement, dance, theater, art, and writing. Though I studied extensively and learned to translate the language of formlessness into form through these mediums, I was still searching for something deeper — a connective state I hadn’t yet touched.That search carried me through university in New York, and drama school in North Carolina, yet the underlying anxiousness persisted — what yoga would call “the mind stuff.”Eventually, the place where all these mediums coalesced — where they intersected and opened a bi-directional spectrum of the Self — was yoga.Looking for a form of expression that didn’t require actors or an audience, I came across a friend practicing asanas. She gave me a book of stick figures, and I began practicing in my room. I moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and took my first official adult yoga class in a gym. Afterwards, I quit the gym and followed the teacher.For the next four years, as I struggled to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood, I found myself practicing once or twice a day. I was writing screenplays, and ultimately wrote and directed a feature film — but yoga had quietly become my obsession.After the Twin Towers fell in 2001, I left behind my career in film and began to teach yoga.For the past 20 years, I’ve relentlessly pursued the deeper meanings of yoga. Asana was my gateway, but it opened the door to philosophy — particularly the non-dual, northern-based tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, as taught by Sally Kempton, Carlos Pomeda, and Paul Muller-Ortega, and the southern-based Sri Vidya goddess tradition with Douglas Brooks.With Sally Kempton, I dove deeply into meditation, shedding layer after layer of who I thought I was.In 2008, hungry to deepen my understanding of the body beyond asana, I found Body-Mind Centering®. I began studying with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Amy Matthews, and Myra Avedon, who introduced me to the world of somatics — revealing how the felt sense of the three-dimensional body can be a portal into the deeper technologies of tantra.My pursuit has always been guided by a desire to bring tantric wisdom into the body — not just in meditation, but in movement, in action, and in group consciousness.From my base in Los Angeles, I relocated to Bali in 2010, where I lived exclusively for two years. Since 2012, I have traveled the world offering trainings, workshops, immersions, and retreats.In 2014, I co-founded the School of Embodied Flow™ with Dr. Scott Lyons, whom I met through Body-Mind Centering®. Together, we created a system that weaves somatics, tantra, psychology, and yoga into a continuum of movement and mindfulness — to awaken the whole Self.Today, Embodied Flow™ has touched students in over 50 countries, with a teaching network of over 20 certified teachers and more than 20 inspired facilitators around the world.
