A former CPA, management consultant, product manager, & massage therapist, Willow has lived many lives in just this one. In her 20s, after following the "script" of society & her parent's perfectly, she found herself very unhappy in corporate America. After a few challenging life events caused her to have a panic attack, she turned inward and began her healing journey & spiritual awakening.
She began a meditation practice simply for stress management & let herself begin to cry - really cry - for first time in her life. After a few months, walking around the streets of San Francisco, things looked different. She was struck by the vibrancy, color, & alive-ness to everything. There was so much beauty & sweetness - she felt as if she was seeing for the first time.
There was no turning back at this point. She voraciously went down her spiritual path - reading book after book, taking countless courses, studying with various teachers. After a few years, she quit her corporate life in San Francisco & deepened her inner journey by studying massage at the Pacific Center for Awareness and Bodywork in Kauai.
After graduating, she practiced massage & healing work for just over a year in Sonoma County before following her heart's unfolding & taking a sabbatical abroad. She sold her belongings, packed the rest up in two suitcases, and left. She began deep tantric mentorship with Sofia Sundari, met her meditation teachers (Kriya Lighting Foundation), attended numerous retreats, & spent countless hours in meditation & yoga practice. Most of her 14 month abroad was spent in Bali, where she was deeply touched by the land, the spirituality, & culture of the Balinese, whose hearts shine so brightly. She also spent time in Portugal, Italy, & Cambodia attending retreats, and in Greece & Vietnam.
Kissed by grace again and again throughout her awakening journey, she finds herself continually humbled, broken anew, and opening her heart to this life. Her endless passion is Awakening, becoming Free, and living this life truly well. She's honored to play a role in assisting the same for others.
She's studied: yoga, meditation, buddhism, hinduism, vedanta, tantra, Qi gong, massage (licensed in CA, now expired), biodynamic craniosacral therapy, somatic breathwork. She is trauma-informed & has studied somatics & trauma healing, the work of Gabor Mate, & Internal Family Systems.
In her work, she draws from all her formal studies & everything she's learned, experienced, and embodied in her personal journey.