I found my spark the way philosophers do — by asking, What is a Good Life? I moved from Paris, France on a Fulbright scholarship to complete a Ph.D in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. My dissertation on creativity in thought eventually led me somewhere no academic expected: onto a yoga mat, into my body and soul. And toward creative rather than academic writing, when it became clear I would rather create than just think about it.

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That was twenty-five years ago. In 2006 I founded MeWE: The Memphis Writers Ensemble. Not a class, but a community of people willing to play on the page together, to risk a terrible first draft — or a stroke of genius. In 2013, I completed my RYT 500 Yoga training, specializing in Kundalini Yoga, a technology to unleash your creative potential through the use of breath, movement, meditation, and chanting. I have since taught philosophy, yoga, meditation, and creative writing to pretty much everyone — university students in Scotland, kindergartners in France, homemakers, athletes, and musicians in Memphis, and retreat-goers in Mexico. For the past five years I've co-owned Delta Groove Yoga, Memphis's favorite studio, where I directed our Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training. I've also had two books published: a philosophical essay about memory and creativity in contemporary French thought, and Even the Breath, a novel in which Kundalini Yoga saves the world.

 

Then in October 2025, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Healthy as they come — 30 years of practice, no alcohol, no cigarettes,  yoga five times a week — and still, it happened. I had a radical mastectomy, and 24 hours later I was already up and moving, running my own recovery using everything my practice had built in me: core strength, mental and physical flexibility, creative thinking, and a deeply trained ability to listen to my own body. Five weeks out, I was cancer-free and moving freely. My surgeon was amazed. Honestly, so was I.

 

That experience didn’t just confirm what I’d been teaching — it deepened it. It’s why my work has never lived in the body alone. Alongside yoga and meditation, I offer weekly creative writing workshops and mentoring to spark or curate your muse, as well as spiritual mentoring for those ready to sit with the bigger questions — the ones that lie under the busyness of daily life. Different doors, same room: a deeper relationship with your whole vibrant, creative, curious, and courageous Self.

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Nothing like looking death in the face to reset your priorities.  In the weeks and months since surgery, I had to ask again, more urgently this time, What do I REALLY want to share with the world? What do I have to give? What is wanting to come through me? SPARK is the answer that came: A place beyond space and time to reconnect, reignite, and reclaim. Whether you’re recovering from something hard, craving more sparkle in your day-to-day, or simply ready to stop being a passenger in your own story and write that novel on paper rather than in your head— my teaching and mentoring meet you exactly where you are, to remind you what it feels like to be authentically, wholeheartedly alive.