I have been teaching and practicing yoga, movement and massage as many of us do--as if we were weaving a tapestry, and at the same time becoming part of the tapestry!  I was a student of Kundalini Yoga, then Kripalu Yoga, followed by years of study with Iyengar teachers such as Joan White at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1980s.  In 1978 I received my BFA in Dance from Temple University in Philadelphia and soon after formed Agape Dancers, a  modern dance company that choreographed using elements of yoga, kenpo karate, tai chi, white crane kung fu and images of nature.  We travelled around Pennsylvania and performed environmental dance in parks, museums, art galleries, and schools.  We were funded in part by the Pennsylvania Council of Arts, the National Endowment of the Arts, and we received a grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council to go area schools along with a Lenape Indian storyteller, historian, musicians and others.  At many of the performances, and sometimes separately, we led workshops to share the movement modalities that we choreographed with.

At our studio in the East Oak Lane area of Philadelphia, I taught yoga and dance and bodywork classes, and brought in the best of Philly's instructors.  Innerworks became a school, in my own home!  We were privileged to study from Bradford Chien, a black belt in White Crane Kung Fu from Taiwan who was not able to hear, or speak, but was an outstanding communicator.  We had tai chi classes and shiatsu classes with Jerry Fleischman, a student of Ohashi's in New York City; and all aspects of anatomy and kinesiology with Olena Nitefor, a Toronto bodyworker and anatomy instructor for Feldenkrais trainings.

My classes in the Philadelphia area at Philadelphia College of Art, Tyler School of Art, Beaver College and at Innerworks led me to my yoga classes for Long Beach Parks and Recreation.  In my workshops with phsycial therapist Jacquie Maroun, we taught movement and massage for the childbearing years to parents and infants at Long Beach Community Hospital, St. Mary's Medical Center, Saddleback Hospital and more.

Since moving to Murrieta, CA in 1995, I have taught yoga, movement and practiced bodywork at Wellness Professionals (formerly Alive Polarity at Murrieta Hot Springs in the 1980s), Mt. San Jacinto College, Murrieta school district, Innerworks/West Coast and at A Balanced Body Center.

In 1996 I co-founded Inland Holistic Health Association.  In 2001 I began a holistic health column in the Califorian newspaper, In Touch.  Soon after I began writing Massage and Yoga in Special Places: 30 Years of Hands On, a compilation of articles from Awareness Magazine and the Californian newspaper, and my own and others' experiences working with special needs students/clients and in a variety of locations including half way homes for people overcoming addictions, prisons, hospitals and hospices, at natural and manmade disaster sites, and with animals.  I am looking for an editor/agent and/or publisher.