About ‹ SoulButter

With little toes in ballet slippers, I began pursuing a creative & active lifestyle before the age of three. Tap heels, jazz shoes, soccer cleats, track spikes, stacks of writing journals and shelves of essential oils soon followed.

Connecting the dots backward, the “mystic athlete” archetype emerged in childhood and became a dominant driving force for my ambition, intentions and actions.

I was primed to enter adulthood with a fire to study and create holistic health and spiritual personal development practices.

Personal development takes root in the mindfulness of present-moment truth and realism, while at the same time extends its organic wild tendrils into the ever-complex life tapestry of new challenges, visions and dreams.

I focus on maintaining positive, spirited and physically active life experiences that inspire the great bit of life energy required to respectfully study, design, build and deliver optimal health practices and projects.

To inform my work as a wellness educator, entrepreneur and project manager, I have attained over 1600 certified training hours in the healing arts, including a 1000-hr massage therapy diploma and 400+ hours of formal Anusara Yoga teacher training with Darren Rhodes, Sianna Sherman, and Abby Tucker, along with dozens of continuing education workshop hours alongside world-renowned teachers. As a licensed L.M.T., certified RYT-200 yoga teacher, and PMI-certified Professional Project Manager (PMP), I’m passionate about building relations, services, products and events that promote health, social good and environmental responsibility.

Enthusiasm to pursue “the feel good” has always been a primary force at work, guiding my endeavors to explore interesting places and to reach new heights in both professional and personal relationships.

My wellness work spans 20+ years of teaching in the US, France, Thailand, Indonesia and Portugal, managing a fitness club, developing health protocols and overseeing the program management of a medical injury rehabilitation department, mentoring boutique wellness start-ups, co-creating an active lifestyle eco t-shirt brand, offering therapeutic healing art services in one of the world’s top destination health resort, and project managing web and IT system implementation projects in the healthcare, education, and active lifestyle sectors.

My teaching specialty is focused upon all-inclusive empowering and therapeutic body alignment. In my big-hearted classes and workshops I predominantly offer an intuitive improv teaching style to serve the moment and particular client(s) honestly and clearly. This delivery is steeped in a plethora of offerings including but not limited to thematic philosophy and storytelling, anatomy, self-wellness practices, and creative movement sequencing. I choose to focus on two primary intentions:

First: meet the present experience with reverence.
Second: safely and playfully explore our alchemical natures to shift from perceived limitations into the power of potential.

To facilitate the creation of ACTIVE MINDFUL MOJO.

Each of us has a unique journey to well-being. As many journeys go, having a few well-intentioned guides along the way makes for interesting company and energizing endeavors.

Since childhood, I’ve magnetized powerful guides to me: gifted humble teachers, celebrities, entrepreneurs, mountaineers, shamans… lots o’ powerful healers, makers and shakers!

I have honorable respect for them, and the wealth of these audacious soul food studies.

I produce wellness experiences, distilled from 25+ years of digging deep into holistic health and pursuing a boundless exploration of life, mystery and the sacred.

I hope you will join me in this exploration. Discover your compass point in this moment, in this breath, as an alchemist, as a dreamer, as a mover, as a shaker, as an adventurous mojo maker.

Check out the Services & Boosts pages for invitations to join in this exploration.

My Mantra = “To exploration!”

I ask, “To what capacity do I yearn to explore the depths of my truth?”
Welcome to my journey.
The answer is always arriving.
Practice after practice. Breath after breath.

I say, be strong, be open.
Practice kindness to yourself and all beings.
Laugh. A lot.
It makes the inner organs happy and builds your feel-good rhythm.

What’s active mindful mojo stuff and how do I get it?

In its simplest essence, it is FEEL GOOD.

Active Mindful Mojo is your own vibrant and exalted awareness of your personal optimal FEEL GOOD.

To have the MOJO, you are BOTH active & mindful in your practice.

SoulButter Active Mindful Mojo classes offer a fusion of all the holistic goodness Ms. SoulButter collects and assimilates from decades of global travel, yoga, fitness and sports training, meditation, spiritual philosophy, dance, mythology, sound healing, mantra chanting, aromatherapy, nutrition, and therapeutic eastern & western bodywork modalities of massage, acupressure, reiki and craniosacral therapy.

Each class arises from a partially filled-in map in order to invite the experience to be as all attendees create it to be in that precise moment. In this way, no two SoulButter classes are EVER alike.

The practice, whether a 1-to-1 training or large group gathering in either public and private setting, is a dynamic, breathing, polymorphic entity, ever-shifting from each participant’s intention, attitude and actions. Side-by-side, we read the present moment as truthfully as possible. With this approach, personal exploration remains a free-willed force that uncovers new paths specific to your own unique mojo-making journey.

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"Yoga is bodily gospel." ~Reaven Fields. On the Ring Road, Iceland

90 degrees of perfection. Grand Case, St. Martin

Leading morning yoga for Inner Passage Mindfulness on the Rocks Retreat. Cochise Stronghold, AZ

Om Gum Ganapataye Namaha. Teaching High Vibe Yoga Immersion at Soulshine in Bali

Scribing my way into Utthita Hasta Padangustasana at my fav winery in Sonoma, CA

"Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. "~ Keith Richards. Hiking Mount Lemmon, AZ

Mother nature - the most mighty mojo force. Munduk, Bali

An afternoon nap in a park on the grass? Mai, Oui!

My late furry alter ego, the ever-curious "Mr. P" Philippe

Early days of learning mojo moves. Donna Antell School of Dance. Vermont

"Mama said something as I was walking out the door. Do it for the love, not for the money." ~ Michael Franti. Soulshine Villa. Ubud, Bali

"You can go your own way." ~ Fleetwood Mac. Labyrinth at Tree of Life. Patagonia, AZ

Post-teaching glow . Homebase studio Glow Yoga & Wellness. San Francisco, CA

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” –Jack Kornfield. Wilbur Hot Springs, CA

Always looking up. Anjaneasana variation.

Mountains bring might and clarity of character. Annapurna Circuit Trek, Nepal

Morning light draws you to practice. Yoga deck at Wilbur Hot Springs, CA

"I'm still experimenting." ~ Stevie Wonder. Vrschikasana in Aerial Yoga workshop, Urban Flow Studio, San Francisco, CA

"The hummingbird touches your heart. You feel it." ~ Birdman, speaking Mayan Cosmology at Tikal Ruins in Guatemala

"Yoga is uncoiling yourself to find your potential and your vitality and to reach for your virtues. There is nothing from outside. Try to understand that. All is in you. You are the storehouse of your totality." ~ Yogi Bhajan. Canggu, Bali

“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ” ― Swami Vivekananda. San Francisco, CA

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” ― Swami Vivekananda. Canggu, Bali

"Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory." ~K. Pattabhi Jois. Canggu, Bali

Wine pick-up parties will pick you up all pretty. Scribe Winery Sonoma, CA

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure... You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world." ~ Marianne Williamson. Iceland

Knocking on heaven's bamboo door. Munduk, Bali

You passed! Thorong Pass, Nepal - The world's highest pass

Parada dos manos. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

"For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you." ~ Krzysztof Kieslowski. Southern AZ

Culture. Fitness. Art. Geography. Unity.

I travel to experience and contribute to the global family.

Past Explorations:

North America:

(homeland) United States 1000’s of cities/towns/villages in 33 states = Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming

Canada = Montreal

Mexico = Baja California (Todos Santos), Cabo San Lucas, Chichen Itza, Manzanillo, Puerto Penasco, Puerto Vallarta, Tulum, Mazatlan, Sayulita, Valladolid

Caribbean:

Puerto Rico = Luquillo, San Juan

Saint Martin-Sint Maarten = Grand Case

Central America:

Costa Rica = Puerto Viejo, Punta Uva, San Jose

Guatemala = Antigua, Guatemala City, Lake Atitlan, Tikal Ruins

South America:

Argentina = Buenos Aires

Brazil = Buzios, Rio de Janeiro

Europe:

Czech Republic = Prague, Karlovy Vary, Klášterec nad Ohří

France = Antibes, Cannes, Eze, Grasse, Juan les Pins, Menton, Nice, Paris, Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, Saint Paul de Vence, Saint Tropez, Villefranche-sur-Mer,

Germany – Cologne

Greece = Athens, Santorini, Crete

Hungary = Budapest

Iceland = Deildartunguhver, Eldborg Crater, Reykjavik, Hellnar, Hveragerdi, Snæfellsjökull Glacier, Pinvellir, Geysir, Gullfoss, Kerid Crater, Skogafoss, Seljalandsfoss, Stokkseyri, Vik, Skatftafell National Park

Ireland = Dublin

Italy = Bergamo, Cinque Terre (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) Florence, Rome, San Remo, Venice, Varenna

Monaco = Monte Carlo

Netherlands = Amsterdam

Portugal = Lisbon, Cascais, Ericeira

Spain = Barcelona, Madrid

Switzerland = Zurich

Turkey = Cappadocia, Istanbul

Asia:

Indonesia = Bali (Canggu, Sideman, Amed, Ubud, Lovina, Munduk)

Myanmar = Mae Sai (visa run visit)

Nepal = Annapurna Circuit Trek, Kathmandu, Pokhara

Taiwan = Taipei

Thailand = Ayutthaya, Bangkok, Ban Phe, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Hat Yai, Kanchanaburi, Koh Phi Phi, Koh Samet, Koh Tao, Pattaya, Phuket, Sukhothai

Future Bucket List:

Belgium

Bhutan

Bonaire

Bora Bora

Borneo

Burma

Chile

Croatia

Cuba

Denmark

Eqypt

Equador

Fiji

Grenada

Hong Kong

India

Jamaica

Japan

Madagascar

Morocco

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Norway

Peru

Seychelles

South Africa

Sweden

Tahiti

Tanzania