​My Journey: Healing Work, the Long Way Around

I’ve been working with the body for over two decades—but this work has always been about more than muscles.

 

✦ Early Roots: Seattle and the Dominican Republic

I started in Seattle, doing sports massage in a gym. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic, where I worked at a surf school and continued practicing. Around that time, I received my first Reiki training and was introduced to a technique called Hollow Bone by a Native American practitioner. Though I didn’t use those tools professionally back then, they stirred something in me—an early sense that healing was about more than physical care.
 

✦ Years of Study and Searching (2010–2015)

In 2010, I traveled to California for a 200-hour hypnotherapy training. I followed that with a year-and-a-half study in the Lightworkers Healing Method and a trauma touch therapy training in Colorado. I offered hypnosis and lightwork briefly, but they never quite took root in my practice. Most people still sought massage, and I hadn’t yet found the thread that would tie my healing work together.
 

✦ Coming Home to Reiki

That changed in 2016, when I re-took Reiki Level One. This time, it felt like a reawakening. I continued through Reiki Two and eventually became a Reiki Master—not to earn a title, but to root myself in something I could grow with.

I began offering in-person Reiki classes and circles in Boston, and those experiences finally gave form to the work I’d been circling around for years: holding space for others to heal, and to remember themselves through energy.
 

In 2021, I also took a Lomi Lomi weekend workshop with a Hawaiian teacher who spoke about the aunties who practiced healing work until their dying day. That spirit—the longevity, humility, and devotion—stayed with me. I don’t claim lineage in that tradition, but I carry deep respect for the values it represents.
 

✦ The Pandemic Shift: Going Deeper and Teaching Online

In 2020, the pandemic brought everything to a halt. I couldn’t see clients in person, and for the first time, I was forced to ask what it might mean to bring my work online.

I spent the next several years studying and deepening. I completed a 10-month EFT Tapping training, worked for a year and a half with a mind-body teacher, and trained as a Qi Gong instructor. These studies helped me navigate my own transition—and eventually, they became the seeds of what I now offer to others.

In late 2024, I created Traveling Light—a platform for online Reiki teaching, energy mentoring, and self-healing support. I launched the Inner Healing Circle, a community space for people ready to explore their healing path more intentionally, and began teaching Reiki classes again, this time online, to students ready to approach it as a living practice, not just a technique.
 

✦ Honoring the Body, Welcoming the Soul

I’ve come to understand that different people seek different kinds of care: Some clients come to reconnect with their bodies after trauma, anxiety, or deep stress—when they’ve been living so far outside themselves that they don’t feel grounded anymore.

 

That kind of massage work is sacred to me. So is working with injury to the physical body — helping someone heal through presence, not pressure.

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But I’ve also learned that when someone is looking for deeper healing—emotional, energetic, or spiritual—they won’t find it through massage alone. And I’m overjoyed that I’m now able to assist those who seek it—a path forward into deeper healing, guided by energy awareness, self-inquiry, and soul-level care.
 

✦ A Different Kind of "Legitimacy"

Many of my colleagues wish and push to be recognized as valued health care practitioners. I don’t aim to fold my practice into the medical system. There’s value in that for some, but it’s not my path.

 

I want to represent the intuitive, hands-on, spiritually grounded side of healing work—the kind that doesn’t always have credentials or insurance codes, but still changes lives.

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I wish healing circles were more common.

I wish people in cities like Boston knew they could learn Reiki just to support each other, without waiting for an expert to tell them it’s allowed. That’s the kind of healing culture I want to help build. (Notice!  I said support, not replace. Anyone with a physical or mental health illness or injury should seek professional medical or mental health. I DO NOT suggest that reiki or alternative methods should replace proper professional care.)

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✦ And Now...

If your own journey has been winding, nonlinear, or hard to explain—I understand. Mine has too. Whether you’re exploring healing for yourself, or evolving your path as a practitioner, there’s space for both. I’m here now, with fully grounded, yet open intuitively, offering what I’ve lived, and helping others return to their own source.

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