My Story
My path into this work started in my early twenties. What began as a personal need to better understand myself gradually became a lifelong interest in psychology, human behavior, relationships, spirituality, and personal growth.
For more than 15 years, I have continued exploring these areas through personal work, study, training, and working with others. Even while building a career in a completely different field, this was the work I kept coming back to.
For many years, most of my personal work was focused on the mind. I learned to understand my patterns, where they came from, and why I reacted in certain ways. That work gave me a tremendous amount of insight. But eventually I reached a point where I understood a lot and still felt stuck. I could explain a pattern perfectly and still repeat it.
That was when my focus began to shift toward the body. I started exploring somatic practices, the nervous system, emotions, physical responses, and the connection between what we experience mentally and what happens in the body. My own experience with persistent physical symptoms also became an important part of this exploration.
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Why I Created FeelLight Studio
Through this process, I became especially interested in the difference between top-down and bottom-up approaches.
Top-down work starts with the mind. We use awareness, reflection, conversation, and understanding to explore our thoughts, beliefs, experiences, and patterns. Bottom-up work starts with the body and works with physical sensations, breath, movement, sound, emotions, and the nervous system.
Both are valuable. But in my own search, I found it surprisingly difficult to find approaches that truly combined the two. Some practices gave me a great intellectual understanding of what was happening but did very little with the body. Others offered powerful body-based experiences but did not always help me understand how those experiences connected to my history, relationships, or patterns.
There is now much more awareness of the mind-body connection. Books such as The Body Keeps the Score have helped bring these ideas into mainstream conversation. But reading and understanding the connection is different from actually working with it. That difference became very important to me.
Over time, through a lot of study, experimentation, and personal experience, I began bringing the two sides together. I found that sometimes we need to understand what is happening, and sometimes understanding is not enough. We may also need to work with how an experience shows up in the body and nervous system.
That became the foundation of FeelLight Studio: integrating top-down and bottom-up approaches for real change.
Depending on the person and the challenge, our work may include reflection and self-exploration together with somatic practices, breathwork, meditation, movement, voice and sound, symbolic work, or systemic constellations. We start with what is happening in your life and choose the tools that make sense for you rather than trying to fit everyone into the same method.
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Background & Training
My academic and professional background is actually very different from this work. I have an engineering degree, an MBA, and graduate-level education in marketing. My engineering background has strongly influenced the way I think. I naturally look for patterns, connections, systems, and practical ways to understand complex problems.
At the same time, my personal studies have always been centered on people: psychology, relationships, spirituality, personal development, and the connection between mind and body. Over the years, I have explored both Western and Eastern perspectives and many different approaches to personal growth.
I am a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher and have taught for several years. I see Kundalini Yoga as a practical mind-body tool that can use breathwork, movement, meditation, mantra, and kriya to work with emotions, attention, and the body. I incorporate elements of these practices when they are appropriate for the person and the work we are doing.
I am also trained in private one-on-one constellation work using symbolic images and figures. This allows us to explore personal, relationship, family, and business systems without requiring a traditional group constellation. My continuing studies also include somatic and psychosomatic approaches and the relationship between emotional experience, the nervous system, and the body.
FeelLight Studio brings together what I have learned from more than 15 years of personal exploration, education, training, and practice. At some point, I realized I had accumulated more knowledge and experience than I wanted to keep only for myself. People around me were already coming to me for perspective and support, and creating FeelLight Studio felt like a natural next step: a place where I could share what I have learned and help others find their own way forward.
