About

I grew up in Northern Ontario, with a strong connection to my Finnish ancestry, one that values being out on the land and water, wildcrafting, and serenity and silence. I love my dogs and cat, flowers, all water bodies (rivers, waterfalls, lakes…) photography, paddling (white-water canoeing or sea kayaking), Lake Superior (‘Gichigami’ in Anishinabe), travelling, and being on top of mountains!

In this lifetime, I equally feel at home in the deserts of the Southwest as I do on the rivers and lakes in the North. I have paddled the Yukon River quest (a 3 or 4 day race of 715 km), and solo-kayaked on Teslin Lake and Lake Superior. Much of my adventuring is about taking my dogs out, but I have also been able to travel to many countries and swim in different Oceans and Seas.

I have lived in various Yukon communities for almost two decades. I’m keen to explore and connect with the many plant, animal and human communities, and most definitely the ocean! One of my goals in life is finding the beauty in everything, and the joy in life.

Vibrational Essences are an amazing inspiration in my life, as they have tremendous healing potential and are a true gift from Mother Earth. Each essence has a vibrational signature and works to aid healing and balance at a deep emotional level. When I took the Fireweed Combination essence for a month, I felt an intracellular tingling, a releasing of trauma from my cells that compared to several months of massage school that brought up the same effect, I saw that the essences did it in a month!

In the past few years I have immersed myself in the study of Energy Healing through the Neo Shamanic Society. For the most part through online learning and in February 2023, I attended a live immersion in The Netherland for two weeks with Christof and Alaya, Jonathan and Shera and team, and fellow students from around the world. It was life-changing and incredible, where deep personal transformation took place, as well as learning many new techniques and protocols, and receiving new codes. I also travelled to Egypt in 2022 to be a part of the Egypt Trinity Tour with the Neo Shamanic Society, and that was an experience of a lifetime (of lifetimes!).

Thank you to the Guides and Teachers

The plants and flowers, devas and elementals, my Mother, my Father, both ancestral lines, and my celestial team.

The Indigenous teachers and nations who have shared teachings and stories and guided my lived experiences: Saami, Anishnabe, Haudenosaunee, Gwichin, Northern and Southern Tewa, Navajo, Tlingit, Northern and Southern Tutchone, and the Upper Tanana. I have lived in many places, but these are the traditional territories where I connected to the land and water in significant ways. Every Elder, every trapper and artisan, anyone from Chief of the nation to the little ones whose diapers I changed, and each and every youth, taught so much – the humour, stories, challenges and resilience, the deep knowing of belonging to a place.

My bodywork and flower essence teachers and friends, notably Steve Johnson (Alaskan Essences), Bev Gray (Boreal Herbal -Yukon), Sabina Petitt (Pacific Essences), and Ruth Toldeo Altschuler (Essence Circles). Each of the above have truly had a profound effect on me, shared many teachings and have been huge cheerleaders as I emerged onto this path.

Steve often taught about the essences through story, and I was always mesmerized by the co-creation and attunement with the plant and its overlighting Soul. I remember so many essences from his repertory because of these stories. The first training in Homer, Alaska was beyond anything I’d ever experienced, the place was magical, a large group of mainly Brazilian women filled the week with incredible joy and laughter. Honestly for me it was emotionally and spiritually a baptismal moment when we touched our Third Eye with the remainder of the Forget-Me-Not essence water.

I am grateful that I got to meet Steve and learn from him in a couple courses before he passed on, and I am grateful to my current teachers when we can meet in person or online! When someone is no longer on the Earth Plane, any of us Flower Essence Therapists all over the world can tune in and receive guidance from their Spirit.

Kristi, a teacher in massage school in Santa Fe, New Mexico would often start a class with a plant hydrosol for each of us students to try. I remember Blue Lotus, and in my mouth and throat, I could see with inner vision blue sphere and I offered that it was the first time I could taste a colour! It was also one of the first times where the gift of inner sight became known to me. It was the first doorway into the world beyond essential oils, through the hydrosols, leading me to pick up my first bottle of flower essences at a little health store in Pine, Arizona.

After massage school, I trained in various bodywork modalities, as well as in Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, yoga immersions, and have done work with and receiving sessions in energy healing, Shamanic sessions, and with a dear friend who is a gifted Psychic Medium.

In working in the field for over 17 years, I owe a very big thank you to the clients that put their trust in me, and I humbly recognize how so many have been teachers along the way. I’ve always described massage therapy as a practice with such deep learnings that have made me a better human along the way – the soul lessons have been deep and beautiful.

Thank you to the Stars, the Water and our beautiful Mother Earth.

We are from you, we are of you, and we will return to you.