Standing on stage in Vegas making stacks of money as an exotic dancer , I had a devastating realization: I was completely disconnected from my own body. Despite 25+ years of professional dance training, my body had become a machine that performed on command. Two days later, my world imploded —affair discovery, divorce, bankruptcy, single motherhood. I was surviving on Adderall and Red Bull, working six nights a week until dawn trying to figure out how to put my life back together.

In my bathroom mirror one morning, repeating BS affirmations I didn’t believe, a voice said: “Move. You can trust me.” That hour of intuitive movement—crying, stretching, rolling on the floor,became my lifeline. It wasn’t about looking good or performing; it was about coming home to myself through body wisdom.

This awakening led me to pursue trauma-informed yoga certification (200 hours) and somatic stress release training (completing September 2025). I discovered that the body holds both our deepest traumas and our most profound healing capacity. Movement became my pathway from performing confidence to embodying it, from ignoring my intuition to trusting my body’s intelligence completely.

Now I use my decades of dance training along with yoga and somatic stress release to guide professional women back into their bodies through The Body Intelligence Collective, individual coaching, and corporate workshops. My clients learn to self-regulate through movement, make decisions from embodied wisdom, and show up with authentic presence whether navigating boardrooms or family dynamics.

I’m excited to partner with Awakenpedia because true spiritual awakening requires embodiment. Consciousness without body wisdom is just pretty theory. Real transformation happens when you can feel the truth in your nervous system and trust the intelligence that lives in your bones, not just your thoughts.