About Petra

I chose this path because I needed to feel empowered… about my body, my safety, my choices, and my right to feel better than ok. I needed the knowledge to take care of myself. So I studied, and I practiced, and built bridges between science and art.

My Holistic Studies began thirteen years ago at Heartwood Institute, a magical school located in the coastal mountain range of Northern California, where I completed a 1200 hour Holistic Health Practitioner Program. There, I found a place for my undergraduate degree of Biology and Chemistry to land in the physical form.

At Heartwood, I also engaged in intensive study of Chinese Medicine, Holistic Nutrition, Ayurvedic Medicine, and Conscious Communication Counseling. I’ve since become certified in Trigger Point Therapy, Ayurvedic Practices of Cleansing and Healing, and Chinese, German, and Contemporary Cupping Methods, and Western Astrology theory.  I continue to study Holistic Health through a series of scientific and spiritual lenses to better understand the breadth of the human experience.

Above all else I believe in a kind of unlikely balance. One that looks like all the parts and the whole, the alchemy, the forward the looking back, the looking in and possibly opening up and out when it’s safe. That there is not perfect way to do this having a body…that the perfection is in the doing and undoing again and again. The rupture and repair that helps us build a kind of trust in our need to fall apart as much our need to feel our strength and resilience. That we can do this in the company of others and feel seen and held and allowed to be exactly this right this moment.