I have at least 2500 hours of study in manual therapy: Rolfing SI, craniosacral work, visceral work, nerve mobilization, and other body-related modalities. My Basic and Advanced Rolfing certification is from the Rolf Institute®. I have done two Advanced Rolfing Trainings, one in 1999 and one in 2015/2016. My craniosacral training includes both biomechanical and biodynamic approaches and was undertaken with the Milne Institute, the Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America, and osteopathic teachers. My visceral manipulation training has been with leading European and U.S. teachers. My nerve mobilization studies have been with two major teachers of the work in the Rolfing community. 
Besides bodywork training and years of experience, my understanding of the body and body issues is informed by a range of studies in the mind-body-spirit realm, including Somatic Experiencing®, the Diamond Approach®, psychodynamic and depth traditions of psychotherapy, and somatic psychology (more on these below).
* I've studied with Rolfer Will Johnson, who has made the crossover of Rolfing and meditation/spirituality his specialty. I've completed training related to embodiment and "The Line", and learned to apply Rolfing work to assist meditators in easeful body alignment for sitting practice.
* I've completed two years of the three-year Somatic Experiencing training, which offers neurobiologically-based interventions to help restore resiliency in the nervous system, particularly working with fight-flight-freeze dynamics.
* I have begun studying SourcePoint® Therapy with Bob Schrei, a system that works with the energetic blueprint of the body that influences structure and held patterns.

"Rolfing" and "Rolfer" are registered service marks of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute®. "Diamond Approach" is a registered trademark and/or trademark of The Ridhwan Foundation in the U.S, Europe, and various other countries throughout the world.  Portrait © Russell Horning

I have been involved in alternative health and transformational growth work since the early 1980s, first studying acupuncture and shiatsu in China and Japan and actively engaging in spiritual work through meditation and spiritual studies. For close to 30 years I have had a practice based in sophisticated systems of bodywork - Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI), craniosacral work, visceral work, and nerve mobilization. I am certified as an Advanced Rolfer® by the Rolf Institute® (now the Dr Ida Rolf Institute®), the only school founded by Ida P. Rolf and authorized to teach her work. 

Many people seek out Rolfing SI to optimize posture, find pain relief, recover from injuries, improve sports performance, and other physical goals. I'm happy to help with those, and my work is also deeply informed by the mind-body-spirit interface. My own journey with bodywork has paralleled personal growth in other dimensions of experience, and I'm available with interest, curiosity, and a skillset to help clients when they have broader goals of overcoming blocks to somatic awareness and embodiment and working with the body-held elements of a trauma history as discussed in Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, and in Peter Levine's work of Somatic Experiencing®.

I practice bodywork in Seattle's Phinney Ridge neighborhood (near Ballard, Fremont, Green Lake, Wallingford, and Greenwood). 

I wrote a few articles in the nearly two decades that I served as Editor-in-Chief for Structure, Function, Integration: The Journal of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute®, and I also interviewed many other Rolfers with similar or parallel interests. The Journal is available to the general public on Amazon. You can read some of my articles related to bodywork at these links:

• The Co-emergence of Body-Mind-Spirit
• The Psychobiology of the Feet
• Body As 'Portal'

Although you're visiting my bodywork website, I also work as a teacher of the Diamond Approach (a modern spiritual path that focuses on a deep exploration of our inner nature and realization / actualization / embodiment of it) and as a psychotherapist. Each of these endeavors – bodywork, Diamond Approach, psychotherapy – is a possible way to engage with me. An article of mine that may help you differentiate is The Co-emergence of Body-Mind-Spirit.

Although I engage in three different practices – bodywork, psychotherapy, and private sessions with Diamond Approach students – I do not mix them. (In therapy parlance, I don't do "dual relationships".) So if you initially come as a bodywork client, I would not do private sessions in the Diamond Approach with you, or take you on in my role as a psychotherapist. Thus, if you are not sure how to engage, and are interested in the whole mind-body-spirit phenomena, you may want to speak to me before deciding which "door" to come through. I am happy to refer you to other practitioners in any of these realms.