About Grounded Present
I help you discover what grounds you through guided stretching, gentle yoga, and reflection.
Grounding isn’t a place. It’s a relationship.
Grounded Present is built around one practice: spending time noticing your relationship to your space and your surroundings. Not decorating toward someone else’s idea of “put together” — paying attention to what actually makes you feel comfortable, connected, and like you belong, right where you are.
Feeling at home isn’t tied to a particular kind of room or a finished project. It’s something you cultivate by noticing what grounds you and what doesn’t, a little at a time.
I think about this the way I think about caring for plants: you don’t tell a plant what to become. You learn its nature, its needs, and you create the conditions where it can thrive. People are the same. So is a home.
Where this comes from
My own yoga practice started in 1998, alongside a college course in Buddhist philosophy — not by accident, but during a year that reshaped who I thought I was, or was trying to be. It took a long time to come back to. I earned my RYT-200 in 2023 and started working as a stretch provider in 2024, but the practice itself has been part of my life a lot longer than the credentials suggest.
I studied psychobiology at Wellesley College because I am interested in the relationships among the body, mind, behavior, and environment. I later studied counseling psychology and higher education administration. I spent much of my working life in mental health, academic research, and education, including work at several research institutions. My foundation is intellectual and academic: I value evidence, careful inquiry, and continued learning. Those years shaped how I listen, ask questions, and avoid assuming that I already know what another person needs.
At the same time, I don’t believe that all meaningful knowledge comes from institutions. I believe it is important to read books and take research seriously, but also to pay attention to your own experience and listen to your own voice.
Working in horticulture gave me another way to understand many of those same relationships. Gardening and caring for houseplants have become forms of meditation for me—practices of slowing down, observing, responding, and tending without forcing an outcome.
I have never stopped learning. I’m especially interested in research on biophilia and the ways architecture, nature, and the built environment can affect stress, attention, and well-being. It gives evidence and language to something I have long noticed in my own life: our surroundings matter.
I protect my peace now. And my space. And focus on what matters to me.
What grounds this work
Movement
Guided stretch and gentle yoga to ease tension and help your body feel like a place you actually want to be.
Home
A place that supports the life you’re actually living, not a picture of perfection.
Belonging
The center of it all — the feeling that you don’t have to be anyone but who you already are.
Plants
Living things that teach patience, observation, and balance. You don’t have to own a piece of nature to have a relationship with it. Noticing counts as much as tending — a windowsill, a walk, or a single houseplant.