I am passionate aboutthe arts, healing, and spirituality, and my work incorporates all of these. I am inspired by the opportunity to witness and support people's transformation and growth. I am committed to my own transformation and growth as well, which is an ongoing journey.
Silliness and play are essential. I love creating, witnessing, and performing music, dance, and theater with other creative souls. I don't actually know why I'm on this site, given my computer revulsion (or is it repulsion?), but a friend suggested it so here I am, typing words on a screen connected to a machine that causes my brain circuitry to rapidly deteriorate...I prefer human contact to online "connecting". I do not use a cell phone, and I don't know what TiVo, iPhones,iPods, or blackberries actually are. I prefer it that way.
I enjoy face to face, voice to voice, heart to heart interactions.

Creating it, one moment at a time...
Discovering who I'm becoming, Finding ways to express who I already am,
Trusting that whatever I'm doing and however I'm being, there is always the next breath and the next moment and the next possibility.
Other than that, I'm generally chopping vegetables.

-communication
-rhythm
-teaching others how to do the things I love (such as experiential psychotherapy, body percussion, Playback Theater, Israeli folkdance)
-acknowledging the vast universe of things I'm not really good at

Physically - my olive skin, my eyes, my lack of tallness
Emotionally/spiritually - my presence, my attention, my compassion

I love the music of many composer/lyricists, including:
Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years, Thirteen)
Adam Guettel (Light in the Piazza, Myths and Hymns, Floyd Collins)
Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, John and Jen)
Stephen Sondheim (everything!)
Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Godspell, Children of Eden, Wicked)
Kander and Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret, Zorba)
Rodgers and Hart/Hammerstein (everything!)
Ahrens/Flaherty (Ragtime, Once on this Island)

Books:
Anything on Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
Anything on Ericksonian Hypnosis
Tom Robbins novels - Jitterbug Perfume and Skinny Legs and All
All of Geneen Roth's books, especially When Food is Love
The Sufi Book of Life
Poetry by Rumi and Hafiz
And last but certainly not least : The Stupids Step Out

Food:
I generally gravitate towards substances that I can readily identify as actual food. If it grew from or freely roamed on the Earth, that's good. If it is simply prepared and not overwhelmed with salty, sweet, saucy, sticky stuff, that's really good. If it's beautiful in color and satisfying in texture and enticing in aroma, that's excellent. And if it comes in a package and lived forever on a supermarket shelf and only survived due to the intervention of artificiality and preservatives, well- that's just wrong.

vegetables, improvisational movement, indoor plumbing, kindness, dental floss,musical theater

- that I am significantly disturbed by the idea that countless people are revealing their private thoughts to the world on this lifeless screen for any and all eyes to see...
while children are keeping secrets from their parents, partners are living hidden lives and lying to each other, and we seem to have lost our discernment of appropriate boundaries and our capacity to co-create true intimacy in our lives.