When it comes to the human body, connection is essential for optimal function, development, and health.
All of our biological systems and vital organs are designed to work together as one system
But our human experience is not one-dimensional. And after two decades of working with the physical body, I’ve learned that there is truth and depth beyond that which we see. The anatomy of what is happening helps us understand the physical experience, but within the physical, there is a connection to what the heart is communicating.
Over the course of my professional career, I’ve spent two decades assessing injuries, and teaching people how to build strength and flexibility, and functional movement through bodywork treatments. Combining this experience with my own spiritual walking over the last 15 years, it has become clearer to me that within the root of a physical disconnection lay a spiritual one. The two realms are reflections of one another. Most often, when our physical body is not progressing beyond an injury or trauma, perhaps there is something deeper to heal with in ourselves. The wound then becomes the luminous connection back to our heart, to our soul, to our Divinity.
Personally, I experienced a lifetime of disconnection. As a child and into young adulthood, I often felt lost and struggled to truly know myself, where I fit in, and what my purpose was. After the birth of my first child, faced with post-partum depression, I found myself searching for answers. It wasn’t until I experienced how to 
through sufi healing modalities, that I healed a deep disconnect and more importantly, this healing showed me the connection between the body and the Divine that changed how I live my life and how I approach my practice.
When we are faced with an unexpected trauma like an accident, difficult birth, a hit to the body, the head, or the impact of a fall or surgery, without us even thinking about it, the body instinctively goes into an automatic survival response to protect vital organs to stay “safe.” When the trauma has passed, and it’s time to release this protection pattern, sometimes the body isn’t able to decipher that it is safe to do so. This is when it is imperative to gently access the heart in order to gain access to the nervous system to aid in the reestablishment of 
to allow the depths of the bodywork treatments to be successful. Without the integration of this step, recovery within the medical treatments may not feel whole or complete.
Within the bounds of safety and backed by proven bodywork processes and techniques,
your physical injury or trauma has the opportunity to receive healing to its capacity.
But perhaps even more importantly, through the process,
