Hi, and welcome to my home on the web.  I'm a woman in my 50's who has been on a journey involving energy, spirituality, and sexuality for almost as long as I can remember being alive. 

As a small child, when my Mother put me to bed I often found myself wide awake for quite a while.  After she took away the flashlight and the book, I had to find other ways to amuse myself. Gradually I became aware of a humming in my body, and realized I could move it around.  I also discovered I could increase or decrease its intensity by breathing faster or slower, and spent many hours exploring this phenomenon in many permutations.

When later in life I learned about Tantra, I realized I had been playing with energy under the blankets!

Later in my teens I discovered that a sexual experience could also be a spiritual experience.  Because of that realization I was forced to confront many of the religious beliefs that I had been taught as a child.

Doing so turned out to be enormously freeing as I began to question all that I had learned much more thoroughly than ever before.  

This inquiry allowed me to begin to create my life in a proactive manner, rather than living a life determined for me by others and their beliefs and opinions.

My journey has taken many off-beat twists and turns, and I'm sure yours has its own twists and turns as well.  Respecting your belief systems, I share my education and the knowledge I've received with you.

I've studied at and received my certifications in Hypnotherapy, Advanced & Clinical Hypnotherapy, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) from HCH in Lafayette, CA, and received my Reiki I and Reiki II attunements there as well.  I am also certified in Quantum Touch, which is a form of energy work similar to Reiki and Regenesis.

I received my certification in sex education from The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, a graduate school in San Francisco.  

Involved in behavior training since 1979, I've been an initiated Wiccan Priestess since 1983, and a public speaker on Human Sexuality since 1985.  I've appeared on national radio and TV, including The Alex Bennet Show, People Are talking, Pittsburgh Today, and Geraldo. Locally I lecture to human sexuality students at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, to trainees at national sex crisis and information hotline San Francisco Sex Information and I speak at conferences and universities nationwide.  

I also teach classes and workshops in San Francisco at QSM, a women-owned business that offers classes, workshops, and a mail-order catalogue of books and magazines on alternative sexualities,  The Society of Janus, a pansexual BDSM social and educational organization, The Exiles, a woman-to-woman BDSM social and educational organization, and at Good Vibrations, a worker-owned cooperative store that sells quality sex toys, books, and videos, and offers sex information classes. 

Warm, eclectic, and informed, I’m committed to your process

What is The SpiralWay?

The SpiralWay is my philosophy of life and spirit.  I believe we are each on a journey that has many roads, highways, alleys, dead-ends, detours, bridges, tunnels, roadblocks, and straight-a-ways, all of which are there for our learning and evolution. 

My motto: "Unfold and evolve to your authentic core self" speaks to that process.  When we are born we are exactly who we each are authentically, at the center of the spiral.  In the first years of life events happen which seemingly divert us from our authenticity, but are actually opportunities for us to refine and polish our true selves. 

Our healing is not about creating something totally new, but remembering who we really are and building on that foundation.  The spiral is three-dimensional, as not only do we move forward, but we also return to certain issues over and over.  However, each time we return we are on a new and different level, with new and different tools, and a new and different point of view.

Of course, the spiral is a classic symbol connected with hypnosis.  However, not only is it a tool for inducing hypnosis, it also can represent the spiraling down into the subconscious mind that one can experience when hypnotized, and the outward spiraling of ones evolving consciousness.

The spiral has also been used in artwork and spirituality for thousands of years.  One of the five major symbols in the world (the other four being the circle, square, triangle, and equidistant cross) it appears in spiritual writings, fairy tales, and mythological stories in all of our cultures.  In these narratives it symbolizes the process of growth and evolution.  If reading about these symbols is of interest to you a book you might enjoy is Signs of Life by Angeles Arrien.