50’s – 60’s
- upwardly mobile working class family in CT
- math whiz
- high school salutatorian
60’s
- academically brilliant
- B.A. French language and literature
- elite Eastern men’s college
- lived in Paris twice, including during the historic “evenements de mai” 1968
70’s – 80’s
- lived in Boston 1971-1989
- graduate school Boston University School of Public Communication
- 1982-1985 software engineer, supervisor MEDITECH, Cambridge and Westwood MA
- childcare provider
- studied, worked at Boston Institute for Social Therapy and Research
- certified as massage therapist Body Electric School of Massage and Rebirthing (CA)
- ten years massage therapy practice
- two summers studied in Soviet Lithuania
- ten years rental property owner and manager
- studied, practiced hatha and Iyengar yoga, natural foods [macrobiotic] cooking, oriental medicine, shiatsu massage, palm healing, modern dance including contact improv
- introduced Joseph Kramer and Body Electric to Boston
- led weekly sensual massage healing group for men
90’s
- 1989-1995 residential staff Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Berkshires, MA
- studied, practiced, taught spiritual development, personal growth methodology, spiritual psychology
- developed SpiritFire healing modality
- lived briefly in Austin, Texas and Northampton, Mass
- studied Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy with Michael Lee
- studied and collaborated with prominent body-centered psychotherapist, the late Douglas Brady
1996-2001 Maui
- founder/director Keiki Ananda residential center
- personal tour guide to sacred sites
2000’s
- studied and collaborated with prominent body-centered psychotherapist, Cia Ricco
- certified in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, Tribeca Hypnosis & Healing Institute of NYC
- breathwork retreats with Christian de la Huerta – Maui, Colorado, Esalen
- ordained as non-denominational minister, legally authorized to perform marriages
- 2004-present psychotherapist, hypnotherapist CT, NYC, Maui
- creator Keiki Ananda Inspiration website
- began and taught meditation group in public library – seven years
- 2016-present intuitive reader
- creator Living as Gods Spirit Circle
- studying, practicing polyvagal theory
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