Who am I in a professional context?

I am an intuitive somatic bodyworker and energy healing facilitator. I am a Certified Massage Therapist, Neuromuscular Reprogramming practitioner, advanced ThetaHealing practitioner, trauma-informed breath work facilitator, and somatic mind-body coach.

I first started doing bodywork and massage in Thailand, where I grew up. I obtained my Thai Massage Certificate and Thai Aromatherapy Massage Certificate from Wat Po Traditional Thai Massage School in Bangkok, TH in 2007. I have been running my practice since 2013 after graduating from the National Holistic Institute as a certified massage therapist (CMT), and after also studying Thai massage back in 2007. I soon grew tired of doing massage the way I had been classically trained, because clients would tend to come back with the same issues and the work wasn't sticking. This led me to train with Jocelyn Olivier at the Healus NeuroRehab Center in Mill Valley, where I learned about neuromuscular reprogramming over the course of the next few years and am still learning more and more about that work. This opened up a whole new world of changing patterns and pain in the body and nervous system, but I eventually discovered there were limitations to that as well. I also trained with Gabriel Posner during this time to learn about somatic bodywork off and on for years, and this sparked the interest that led me to my most recent certification program. After becoming a certified ThetaHealing practitioner in 2019, I was pressured to give up in-person work during the pandemic in 2020 and so I leaned into the energy work that had learned. I found that this work helped others not only release their limiting beliefs to help them grow and heal emotionally and spiritually, but eventually began to see the connection between long-term pain and imbalance patterns in the body that couldn't be healed with physical interventions and the improvement and sometimes even disappearance of them after deep ThetaHealing work. After going back to in-person work, I began to weave these skills and modalities together into the work that I am doing today. I now am certified in trauma-informed breath work facilitation as of 2021 thanks to Katie Johnita, and I am a certified somatic mind-body coach as of 2023 with the Embody Lab.

I renamed my practice Nervana Body & Soul (previously known as Salus Massage & Bodywork), to better represent all the types of healing I offer after my 11-year evolution of my business. My mission is not to provide temporary relief, but rather to work with you over a series of sessions to realign you spirit, energy, and body. In order to help you feel like the best possible version of yourself, so you can live your best life!  I make a point to give each client a customized session that is tailored to their individual needs by incorporating a unique combination of modalities that I specialize in.

I absolutely believe in the correlation between our energetic state of being and physical ailments. My observations in my work, and my own experiences with Network Chiropractic and SRI led me to approach my bodywork sessions with the understanding that our emotional and mental energy directly affects our posture, our muscle tension patterns, etc. I aim to help my clients integrate trauma in their bodies not only through massage and reprogramming, but through revitalizing the breath to move energy and emotions through the body, and through ThetaHealing and somatic work. This leads to a more profound and well-rounded way of healing that honors the multidimensional being that you are.

Who am i and why did I get into this work?

I am a 38-year-old, biracial, bisexual half Thai and half Caucasian American woman (she/her pronouns) who grew up in Thailand. I came to San Francisco, CA in 2005 for college and never left. This city has a way of pulling you back in. I am a Meyers Briggs ENFP, an enneagram 8, a Sagittarius sun, Taurus moon, and Leo rising and I am clairsentient and claircognizant for my fellow witchy folks. For those who are into Human Design, I am a 5/1 Generator.

I am a survivor of sexual assault and domestic violence, and I have experienced pregnancy losses. I have experienced poverty and wealth. I spent most of my twenties running from my issues by throwing myself into work, self-medicating with alcohol and marijuana, and trying to save other people. I spent much of my life in a toxic masculine energy trying to protect myself by projecting toughness and hyper independence. I am a recovering codependent who struggles with ADHD and being the center of attention. I was in therapy on and off for years before taking a hiatus from 2018-2023 so that I could focus on network chiropractic care and energy healing. These are just some of the experiences that have shaped me and that inform how I hold space for my clients. I am able to hold space for people’s big emotions such as rage, frustration, anger, and grief because my nervous system has been through big trauma and experienced healing. At the same time, I love to hold space for big expansion that is ready to happen in your nervous system so that you can experience new levels of joy, creativity, freedom, pleasure, and abundance.

I tell you all of this because I am human and the way that I work with people is shaped by my perceptions and beliefs that I hold consciously and unconsciously because of my past experiences on this planet.