I began massage in traditional spa and fitness settings, where I learned the foundations of therapeutic touch and how differently each body responds to care. From there, my work expanded into corporate wellness providing onsite massage at Google, and later into integrative healthcare at East West Integrative Medicine, where massage existed alongside acupuncture and other complementary approaches.

My path eventually brought me to medical massage within the San Francisco VA Medical Center, working with veterans experiencing chronic pain, complex physical conditions, and the lasting effects of trauma. Massage was being incorporated into care as a non-pharmacological approach to pain management, at a time when healthcare systems were increasingly looking for ways to reduce reliance on opioids.

That work profoundly expanded my understanding of the relationship between the mind and body. I began to see how experiences of stress and trauma could be reflected physically—in patterns of tension, guarding, breath, and the ways people experienced and related to pain. It deepened my understanding of massage as more than relaxation and taught me to listen carefully, adapt constantly, and recognize that the person on the table often carries a much larger story than the area that hurts.

Eventually, I wanted to bring my work outside of traditional clinical, corporate, and spa settings and into the community around me. I started my mobile massage practice as a way to build deeper relationships with my clients while experiencing the city I love so deeply from an entirely new perspective.

Over the years, this work has taken me into homes throughout San Francisco and introduced me to an extraordinary cross-section of the people who make this city what it is—founders and creatives, healthcare workers and professionals, lifelong San Franciscans, transplants and immigrants building new lives here, parents, athletes, artists, musicians, and people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.

Being invited into someone’s home is something I don’t take lightly. Mobile massage has allowed me to know my clients beyond the treatment room—to understand more about how they live, work, move, care for their families, and experience their bodies in everyday life.

In many ways, Sukha has become my way of caring for and connecting with the city that has given me so much.

My relationship with the body has also been shaped by my own yoga practice. In 2023, after my best friend passed away, I returned to yoga with a level of dedication I hadn’t had before. At first, I was looking for something physical as I had taken time away from work and wanted to feel strong in my body again.

But the physical practice was only what brought me through the door. What kept me there was something much deeper.

I found philosophy, ritual, discipline, and community. Yoga gave me a place to explore questions about grief, presence, attachment, and what it means to live meaningfully. It also gave me a community during a time when I deeply needed one.

Over time, yoga became much more than a physical practice for me. That curiosity eventually led me to spend five months living and studying in a San Francisco ashram, immersing myself in yoga philosophy, meditation, mantra, Sanskrit, and the rhythms of daily practice.

Living in that environment deepened my understanding of yoga beyond the shapes we make with our bodies. I began to see movement, breath, meditation, philosophy, and community as interconnected practices—and that perspective inevitably began influencing the way I approached my work with clients.

Today, yoga and bodywork continually inform one another. Both have taught me that caring for the body can be about much more than addressing something that hurts—it can also be a way of becoming more present, more aware, and more connected to ourselves. Eventually, that curiosity led me into teacher training and, later, into teaching. I am lucky to be able to teach yoga to students at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Each environment has shaped the way I practice today. I don’t approach massage as a predetermined sequence of techniques. I approach it as a conversation with the person and body in front of me—one that requires curiosity, listening, and care.