Smart enough but without a clear direction, I left home to thinking about a career making spaceships and snowboards.

I shifted from materials science and engineering (even working briefly with NASA and JPL) to working for a startup in Boston, then to becoming a sought-after graphic designer in the Boston Salsa scene. 

Eventually, I began promoting self-defense classes and teaching at companies and adult education centers. But something fundamental was missing.

In 2004, while promoting a self-defense workshop, a woman asked me all about it. 

I started talking about my teacher - an industry-changing innovator with an amazing story - instead of my own passion or purpose. 

The woman wasn't phased. "I don't care about him. Who are you?" 

That moment was a wake-up call—I realized I had no idea why I was doing any of it.

The realization that I wasn’t living my own story hit like a slap, wide awake and undeniable.

My life turned inward and I began following what lit me up, what inspired me, caught my attention, and flowed. 

I stepped into conscious evolution, embodiment, meditation, and the healing power of connection and intimacy. I made my journey my own, copying people less and learning to listen to something more real, to try new things, and integrate wisdom and direct my life. 

Within months, I became a personal trainer at Boston’s top sports club, pioneering creative approaches to consciousness-changing mobility. 

Meditation led me to teach yoga and lead movement classes in Utah and Northern California, eventually guiding yoga teacher trainings. Embodiment became my vocation, culminating in life-changing underwater breathhold experience in Hawaii that shaped the next two decades of my life.

I manifested a transformational marriage in Bali and found that living my conscious evolution taught me lessons too profound to articulate fully.

I realized, over and over again, that the story I was trying to live wasn’t mine—and ultimately, that I wasn’t any story I had ever told.

That’s when things really began to move. 

Free from needing to fit into any one narrative, I’ve devoted my attention to helping others discover and align with their own authentic paths, integrating creativity, authenticity, embodiment, personal myth and archetypal narrative, self-discovery, and conscious evolution into every step forward.

Feels like a great beginning!

I work with six systems to help you find your fit. These six areas compliment each other and compound to create a wealth of wisdom for your body and soul.

Real Movement 

How are you using, or not using your actual body? What experiences are you denying yourself that you truly want, and what experiences do you say that you want that simply keep you stuck? From health and fitness to adventure and making love with the universe, your body is your vehicle, your business, your temple and your refuge. Feel better in your body, accepting of your honest limitations.

Narrative Development 

Make sense of your calling and your struggles. Stop lying to yourself to protect what you don't want anymore, anyway. Own your message and your meaning making that let you create on purpose with integrity, explore and evolve, and develop your art in the world. Learn to find yourself within mythic journeys, archetypal stories and level of development to flare forth as a self-authoring genius. 

Autogenic Metaphor 

Elicit what your unconscious is screaming for you to know. Stop letting your lack of growth run the show you don't even love. Get unstuck, unburdened, unattached and yet grounded, oriented, and sane. Learn to listen to yourself like never before with Metaphors of Movement. 

Embodied Intelligence 

Shift into or out of any state to get the wisdom of your very being. Help your body self-regulate and co-regulate and develop your resilience where you haven't yet. Learn to balance agency and flow, surrender and contribution every other contradictory polarity that needs integrating to heal your divided self. UZAZU Embodied Intelligence. 

Synchronicity and Meaning

Heal your relationship with time, space, action and meaning so you can choose without regret, trust without hesitation, ask for what you want from yourself and anyone else, and continue to follow the breadcrumbs and signs without giving up your power.

What's Actually Showing Up

Deal with reality by realizing your purpose is dealing with the reality of your life. This means that every time you show up, grow up, clean up and lighten up, you'll get different results. Over time, you lead yourself, grow in love, learn to lead differently and let go of everything.