MY STORY

The Evolution of a Practice

I grew up in Indiana, surrounded by open land and slow-moving seasons — attuned early to how landscapes shift gradually, how living things adapt over time. That connection stayed with me even as my path moved west to the Pacific Northwest, where I began working in landscape and interior design, learning firsthand how a well-designed space changes how you live inside it.

As my work with the land deepened, so did my curiosity about the systems that support life — not just in soil, but in people. I found Kundalini yoga, and through it, a language for the nervous system that mirrored everything I already knew about a garden: nothing heals by force, only by the right conditions, held long enough.

Around the same time, I came to the Steps and found that recovery, like land, isn't something you fix once. It's something you tend. Herbalism was the thread that tied it together: plants heal the body the same way they heal the land I design. Breath, the Steps, and what grows in the ground turned out to be three versions of the same practice.

Today, that same curiosity has led me somewhere new: teaching nurseries and greenhouses how to build their own AI tools, so the same care and precision I bring to a garden — or a nervous system — can scale to an entire team.