I am also someone who feels compelled to nurture others through touch. To touch people’s bodies and facilitate greater ease of movement—and to teach people about their own body is what I have chosen to make my life about.

I am easily moved by tenderness. I am moved by the first, long sigh that comes escapes a clients lips. I understand it as a manifestation of a feeling that one does not have to hang on, that one feels safe. After this sigh a luminosity begins to grow within the whole body. It suffuses the room. It suffuses me. If you want to know what I am in it for, well, I am in it for the glow.

For years, my hands have been learning how to listen for subtleties and for ways to engage in dialogue. They have also been learning how to hold and offer support, as well as harmonize with the ever-evolving embodiment of another. In this sense they are like a lead back up singer (think Merry Clayton and you’ve got the right idea). They contain a whole world within them and it brings me great joy to share that world with receptive others.