O keep squeezing drops of the sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions beautiful laughter
And from the most insignificant movements
Of your own holy body...
Hafiz

I began in the theatre, with a 3-year training in theatre performance in Montreal.  When I was in my final year,
I was invited to join Ann Skinner, Head of Voice Emerita at Canada's Stratford Festival, who was then 
teaching at the National Theatre School.  As an apprentice with Ann, I took classes in 
Voice, Acting, Mask and Movement.  In the second year of my apprenticeship, I began teaching 
classes under her supervision, and when she left her position, I took over as Head of Voice.

I kept that position for the next five years, continuing to expand my education with voice, acting and text 
workshops in Toronto, Massachusetts, Montreal and Vancouver.  In the many years since then,
my teaching has taken me from northern Canada
to Ireland, Mexico, the U.S. and Switzerland, with many stops in between.  
Teaching has taken many forms, from the basics of voice for the actor to audition coaching,
from Shakespeare to Shanley, and to the
exploration of voice as an expression of the soul. 

I have been teaching voice, body, breath and expression for more than 35 years.
The unfolding nature of each individual has always been my passion,
led by the drive to wholeness in the psyche and the power of the unconscious.

My original dedication to the wisdom of the voice and the body led me in a natural way to 
​Marion Woodman and BodySoul Rhythms. which you'll find more about on the Bodysoul tab.
The work with Marion, Ann and Mary awakened me to the images and dreams,
the stories and myths, that are central to a Jungian way of life.  

I began my studies at the Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology
in Zurich, Switzerland in 2012 and completed a years-long PhD-equivalent training.
This training involved twice-yearly travel to Zurich to participate in lectures
​and seminars on a wide range of topics, from alchemy to African myth to dream colloquia,
​from Jung's Association Experiment to ancient Greek mythology.
There were significant research papers to write, two sets of rigorous exams,
a required training analysis, and a final thesis.  
My thesis topic was The Abduction of Kore: Descent to the Underworld and Birth of a Queen.

As a Jungian analyst, my work is informed by my years of
listening and attending to the stories that are held in the body and in the depths of the soul,
stories that are longing to be told, stories which are held and mirrored in the 
great tales and archetypal figures which have been told and honoured for millennia.