About

I am an intuitive healer who loves supporting others in connecting with their bodies and the natural world. I live in service to my community as a bodyworker, somatic guide, and perinatal doula. Since 2014, I have devoted myself to studying plant medicine, embodied movement, massage therapy, somatic therapy, and birthwork.

I identify as white, Jewish, Italian, cisgender, female, queer, and currently non-disabled. I live on unceded Southern Pomo and Coastal Miwok land that is also known as Sonoma County. I am joyfully committed to serving and affirming queer and trans folx, and non-traditional families.

Rose’s Story

When I am present in my body I am present with the world. My journey in the healing arts began with the practice of listening deeply to my body and intuition. During many summer backpacking trips to the Sierra Nevadas, I started to listen more and more to my heart, my gut, and my body. My days spent hiking from one peak to the next were meditations of being present with my body and nature. After many moons on the trail, I understood that a clear and healthy body, spirit, and mind is the foundation for an experience of fulfillment and connection to myself, others, and nature. It became evident that there is an interconnection between mental and emotional stresses, and physical issues such as emotional instability, hormonal imbalances, and digestive problems. This embodied experience of a developed strength and connection between nature and myself has motivated and inspired me.

In Fall 2014, I moved to Oregon to learn about the healing connection between nature and the body in Herb Pharms’ Herbaculture Program. This was where I developed my original Moon Chart that has now become the Moontime Medicine Guide. After an extensive training on an herbal farm cultivating a relationship with plants as medicine, I felt called to pursue massage therapy in order to delve deeper into understanding the physical and energetic body. After practicing massage for over 10 years, I expanded my offerings to include mindfullness based somatic therapy and birth doula support

Education

My foundational trainings in massage therapy were at the Sebastopol Massage Center, the McKinnon Institute in Oakland, and Osmosis Day Spa. This gave my work a basis in integrating Western and Eastern massage techniques. I am trained in specialities such as abdominal massage, Oncology, lymphatic drainage, deep tissue, Esalen, aroma-accupressure, and pregnancy massage. I weave together these modalities to create a unique session that is both physically and energetically healing.

In 2022, I completed a two year training in Hakomi - a Mindfulness-based Somatic Psychotherapy training. I have continued my somatic’s studies focusing on Relational Somatic Healing which incorporates embodied touch into somatic counseling.

In 2023 I expanded to include birth doula support with a DONA certified Birth Doula training. Since then I have delved deep into studying birth with Elizabeth Davis’s Beginning and Advanced Heart and Hands Midwifery Intensives, Dynamic Body Balancing with Jen Santos, and Queer and Trans Reproductive Support with BADT.

Healing in Community

I believe in working collaboratively with my clients, the natural world, and other practitioners because I know relationships and community to be powerful spaces of healing. I am honored to collaborate closely with amazing Chinese Medicine Practitioners at Flourish Integrative Health and to work closely Naturopathic Doctors at Wild Oak Medicine.

Since the Sonoma County fires in 2017, I have offered massager therapy during crisis to those affected by disasters alongside many other integrative practitioners with the Integrative Healers Action Network. Working with IHAN as their Volunteer Massage Ambassador has been incredibly powerful and inspiring - please visit their website and help support them bring more healing to those during enviromental disasters.

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