01 — Teaching
Teaching & doctoral mentorship
My teaching begins with listening — to students, to the questions emerging in their work, and to the forms of knowing that are not yet fully articulated.
My approach brings methodological rigor together with experiential learning, supporting students as they develop their scholarly voice and investigate the relationship between lived experience and theoretical understanding.
At Saybrook University, since 2020
Courses: Imagery for Health; Mind-Body Therapies and Practices; Movement Modalities for Health; Evidence-Based Coaching; Intermediate and Advanced Integrative Wellness Coaching.
Facilitator of the required Mind, Body, Spirit Integration groups since 2021. Faculty in the Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health doctoral program, advising students at the qualifying-essay stage. Dissertation committee methodologist.
Selected original curriculum
The Practice Path — a 16-class somatic education program integrating phenomenology, Taoist philosophy, movement, reflective writing, and embodied inquiry. The curriculum explores how somatic resources can help reorganize perception and habitual patterns of responding.
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02 — Research
Embodied experience & psychological life
My research asks how the felt, pre-reflective body can be known and articulated within rigorous inquiry.
My dissertation, a heuristic self-search inquiry into eating disorder recovery through yoga and somatic practice, found that recovery turned less on body image than on the prolonged censoring of emotion and its physiological consequences, a process I describe as othering the body. From it I developed the Self-Emergence Framework: emotional becoming, somatic becoming, bodily un-doing, and self-emergence.
Somatic lineage & embodied inquiry
My work has been shaped by sustained study with the late Eleanor Criswell, EdD, in Somatic Yoga and Hanna Somatic Education, and by my engagement with Katonah Yoga® and its Taoist philosophical foundations. These traditions inform my understanding of somatic practice as a means of investigating and reorganizing perception, habitual patterns, and embodied experience.
I bring this lineage into conversation with phenomenology, qualitative research, and contemporary questions in somatic psychology.
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