About Natalie

There was a time when I thought that being a good woman meant becoming a smaller one.

Not all at once. It happened quietly.

I learned to take up less space. To soften my voice. To distrust my own knowing. To become more accommodating, more responsible, more acceptable. From the outside, my life looked full. I had served in the Army, earned my master’s degree, built a career as a teacher and school counselor, married and had children, and devoted myself to caring for others.

But somewhere along the way, I realized that I had begun to shrink.

Leaving my marriage wasn’t simply the end of a relationship.

It was the beginning of a pilgrimage.

Not away from my life—but toward it.

Toward the woman I had always been beneath expectation, fear, and self-abandonment.

Along that path, I experienced both the deepest erotic awakening of my life and one of the greatest growth vortexes I have ever known.

Those experiences changed me in ways I never expected.

For the first time, I understood that our sexuality is not separate from who we are.  It is inextricably connected to our personhood.  

Through profound erotic intimacy, I learned that my body in pleasure was capable of experiencing the mystery and magic of profound pleasure, and I discovered a vitality that felt both sovereign and holy. My body was no longer something to control or criticize—it became a source of wisdom, creativity, and direct experience of the sacred. I discovered that pleasure could awaken courage, tenderness, grief, and awe. It expanded my understanding of what it means to be fully human.

And then came heartbreak.

Heartbreak revealed something just as important.

It showed me the places where I had unknowingly abandoned myself in exchange for love. It invited me to stop searching for someone else to complete me and begin the lifelong work of returning home to myself.

Carl Jung described individuation as a return to the homeland of the Self.

When I first encountered those words, I felt as though someone had named the journey I had already begun.

That is the journey I continue to walk today.

And it is the journey that shapes everything I offer through Bhakti Healing Arts.

Why work with me?

Because I don’t believe transformation happens when someone tells you how to live.

I believe it happens when you experience yourself differently.

When your nervous system softens.

When your breath deepens.

When your body remembers that it is safe.

When shame loosens its grip.

When grief finally has somewhere to go.

When pleasure becomes a source of wisdom instead of something to fear or chase.

Whether we’re working through coaching, yoga, breathwork, or tantric bodywork, my intention is not to “fix” you.

You’re not broken.

Many of us have simply become disconnected—from our bodies, our intuition, our relationships, our voices, our joy, and our capacity to love and be loved.

My role is to create experiences that help you remember what has always been there.

Clients often tell me they feel profoundly seen, deeply safe, and gently challenged. They describe our work as grounded, beautiful, ceremonial, and deeply human.

I draw from many traditions—somatic psychology, attachment theory, yoga, tantra, neuroscience, ritual, and contemplative practice—not because I believe one path holds all the answers, but because wisdom has always spoken in many languages.

What kind of impact do I hope to make?

I want to help expand our understanding of healing.

I want to help dissolve the unnecessary divide between sexuality and spirituality.

I want people to know that their bodies are not obstacles to awakening but one of the most direct paths toward it.

I want to create spaces where beauty and truth are medicine.

Where ceremony invites presence rather than performance.

Where curiosity is as highly valued as certainty.

Where people feel permission to be in full expression, radically honest, fully alive.

My hope is that Bhakti Healing Arts becomes more than a place people come for a session.

I hope it becomes a place people remember themselves.

A place where devotion is lived through the body.

Where healing is not about becoming someone new, but reclaiming the parts of yourself that were never truly lost.

An Invitation

If you’ve found your way here, perhaps some part of you already knows that life is asking for something more.

Not necessarily more success.

Not more productivity.

But more aliveness.

More intimacy.

More truth.

More beauty.

More freedom.

I believe life was never meant to feel like a cage.

I believe it is meant to unfold like a path through the wilderness—sometimes breathtaking, sometimes disorienting, always inviting us deeper into ourselves.

If you're already walking that journey, or if you want to take the first step, I’d be honored to walk beside you for a while.

Welcome. You belong here.