I am a happy and energetic person, on a spiritual path that has led me already farther than I'd ever dreamed, to deep insights, and to the work I love, (I'm a Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist), to dancing (I do swing-lindyhop, waltz, salsa), long hikes, many travels, and, hopefully, to you. After treks into science, academia, France, and Thailand, I'm now into, and hoping to find someone into, travels going ever deeper into the soul, opening the heart. My goal in a relationship is to become more and more aware of how our minds and emotions work, how we communicate, and to support each other's spiritual growth, gently and compassionately. For me personally, my path has also come to mean becoming more aware of systems of oppression, how I may have internalized them, and how they effect my relationships. Whatever helps me become more vulnerable and more playful, like yoga, acupuncture, t'ai chi, writer's group, hugging a tree, and eating healthy food, are also important to me. I am a single Mom of a 16 year old daughter, who is a lovely person and a good student. A single Dad would be great, or someone open to kids.

I am also a simple, natural, politically minded, active woman. I wear make up only extremely rarely, like comfortable clothes, no high heels, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like to be sexy sometimes, and like you to be, too. I exercise on a regular basis and enjoy it, but I’m not interested in trying to make my body look like an anorexic sculpture, Neither do i want to get overweight or stooped. Dancing, hiking, yoga, and bodylastics seem to do the trick and keep me happy. I used to be a martial artist (Tai Kwon Do, Wun Hop Kun Do), but now teach Qi Gong. I’d like to do some of this with you.

I’m also very simple when it comes to living. I do like to cook, and I like very much to cook together with a partner. But material possesions do not interest me much. Most of my furniture is used or cheap. Much is well worn by now. That’s fine by me. Ideas and spiritual and emotional development are what’s of importance. I read, write, study both my chosen field (Chinese Medicine and nutrition) and social sciences, science, politics, philosophy. I meditate regularly, try to make it daily, and have done so for over 20 years. Meditation has been immensely helpful in my life. I need someone who feels the same, and has probably done at least one extended retreat. Therapy also has helped me greatly over the years, especially with my separtation and divorce. I’m not doing any right now, but do need to be with someone who views it as something helpful. Through these methods, and just life experience, I’ve come to a lot of realizations, about who I am and what I need, about how to communicate better, how to love better.

Drop me a line if you connect in any way. I'd like to hear from you.

I'm living my passion by practising Chinese Medicine and being a mother. Every day I get to help people heal and figure out problems. Yoga, Qi Gong, and meditation are part of my professional development!! Who could ask for better? I love being a Mom, also, and am so very happy I'm able to be there for my daughter.

Being patient, studying, cooking, dancing, especially lindy hop, listening, kissing, making love....

My hair, always.

My love for music is deep and varied, everything from Bach to Led Zep, Funk, World Lounge, Swing, and more, for example: Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine, Victor Wooten, Chili Peppers, Nat King Cole, Police, Manu Chao, Ella Fitzgerald, Green Day, Bob Marley, Soundgarden, Prince, Louis Jordan, Chopin, Parliament, Nirvana, Soul Coughing, Billy Holiday, Diblo, Desmond Dekker, India Arie, Papa Roach, Tchaickovsky, Oscar Peterson, Riley Lee (meditative flute music), Specials, Arrested Development, and I hate to end there, cause there's so much good music!!!!!!!

Favorite Books:Books are also dear to my heart, my favorites so far being: just about anything by Virginia Woolf (esp. Orlando, and A Room of One's Own) or bell hooks (she has a wonderful recent series on Love), Pema Chodron, or Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche; also: Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Les Trois Mousquetaires (the 3 musketeers in french) (Dumas), the Mistress of Spices (Divakaruni), Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin), Outlander (Diana Gabaldon), and on and on ...I love to read.

Favorite TV Shows:America's Best Dance Crew, don't watch much

Favorite Movies:Shakespeare in Love; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; House of Flying Daggers; Merchant of Venice (w/Joseph Fiennes); Wristcutters; Spirited Away; P.S. I love you

Favorite foods: Chocolate, bread pudding, healthy foods, lots of greens, brown rice, quinoa, rooibos or darjeeling tea, fish of all sorts, but I also like small amounts of a really nice cut of beef, pork, or lamb, French cuisine, Indian, Chinese, Mexican, Thai, Ethiopian, all breakfast foods, but especially blueberry pancakes, a great scone or muffin.......

Favorite Quotations:“ I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there.” James Baldwin from If Beale Street Could Talk....... I've been there, and would like to be there again - with YOU!!

My daughter, Hiking in nature, meditating, reading and writing, dancing, friends

letting go of all these thoughts in my head.

dancing!!

I'm very open and straight forward once I meet you, but prefer to meet you first.

You resonate with anything you find in here, but especially if you resonate with my spiritual, dancing, or holistic health paths