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I offer private sessions, classes, day-longs and wilderness retreats that support you to deepen into your body and its natural connection to Source. I work with people from many walks of life, from beginners to those already deeply familiar with spiritual practice. My work draws on my 30-year journey to understanding the mystery of the physical and energy body, my deep explorations into psycho-spiritual development and a lifetime of earth-based practice and communion with the natural world.
My knowledge, capacities and realizations are influenced by many years of yoga study and practice, as well as my extensive spiritual training as a Diamond Approach teacher and as a Somatic Experiencing practitioner. Born in Oslo and raised in Trondheim Norway, I started dancing when I was five years old, then studied dance at The London Contemporary Dance School and on Africa’s Ivory Coast, rooting into my own embodiment, before moving to New York to study dance and teach yoga at Jivamukti. I was also certified at the Integral Yoga Institute and have trained in Somatic Experiencing and practice a number of bodywork techniques, including craniosacral and shiatsu.
A dedicated student of The Diamond Approach for more than 20 years, I have been ordained as a Diamond Heart teacher and utilize these wisdom practices in my work as a spiritual counselor and teacher. I have spent much time in study, retreat and meditation on spiritual psychology, mystic literature and the work of AH Almaas. In my work as a spiritual counselor and in my own spiritual practice, I use the Diamond Approach to embodied inquiry, a potent practice that helps us to feel and metabolize historical imprints as well as experience the vast and mystical reality—to learn how to be both infinite and intimate.
From the time of my childhood in Norway, where I lived in kinship with the mountains and fjords, my spiritual practice has been deeply rooted in the natural world, and I have further deepened my communion with wild nature and the dialectic with inner nature through study with John Davis and Meredith Little at the School of Lost Borders. I currently offer wilderness retreats and daylongs in embodied earth wisdom that draw on these influences, and on a lifetime of deep communion with the natural world.
I created and implemented a yoga program for Harbin Hot Springs, an internationally known retreat center in California, where I founded my own teaching style called Anahatha Yoga which utilizes physical postures and alignment to open energetic dimensions and pathways in the body. Preparing the body in this way opens the student’s awareness to more subtle dimensions of Being in an embodied way. I have been teaching and developing this form for more than 30 years, as well as training and certifying others in the approach. I continue to offer classes and workshops using Anahatha yoga to help students deepen in themselves.