I was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1955. I experienced a difficult childhood followed by a troubled youth. In my teens I developed a passion for theater, dance, and art and dedicated my life to making art.

I graduated from California Institute of the Arts in 1976. For the next fifteen years I lived as an artist in New York and Los Angeles. In the early nineties I became disillusioned with the art world and put my full focus on my "money job" which was doing production work on corporate events. I became very successful and very unhappy.

On my fortieth birthday my wife told me she wanted to leave. This was the beginning of a two year period of looking at everything I had been avoiding. I became even more unhappy.

In 1997, by perfect chance, I spent a few days at a spa in northern California called Harbin Hot Springs. While there, for the first time in a long time, I saw people being happy. I even felt some of this happiness. I realized that there was nothing more important than enjoying life. I decided to dedicate my life to the pursuit of happiness.

There was a "new age" community at Harbin Hot Springs and I let go of my business, sold my house, and moved there. This was the beginning of an amazing period of personal discovery and growth.

Over the next few years I studied with many teachers including Christine Day, Jeru Kabbal, and a reclusive Yogi who called himself Hal. I became a yoga teacher and a body worker. I discovered a form of bodywork called Ortho-Bionomy that was amazingly effective. I put my full energy into learning this and became a registered practitioner. Harbin Hot Springs was the home of a form of aquatic bodywork called Watsu. I also found a passion for Watsu and became a practitioner of this as well as a related form practiced underwater called Waterdance.

I was enjoying my life more than I ever had, and there was much more still possible. In 2002 I attended a workshop by a man named Paul Lowe. Paul is an amazing being. The experience of the gathering with Paul allowed me a glimpse of what is possible. I was able to see how I had been conditioned to believe certain things about myself and the world. I also saw that every action in my life was motivated by fear. I decided this was going to change.

In the next few years, with the help of Paul and many others, I began deconstructing my idea of what is real, and allowing myself to experience a much deeper level of existence. With what I was learning through these experiences, my healing practice became much deeper and even more effective. It developed into a therapy that included the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of my clients in a way that was amazingly transformative.

As more people were experiencing incredible benefits from my sessions, some asked me to teach how I worked with people. Early in 2005 I created a class I called "The Healing Relationship" to share this way of supporting others. As I taught this class, and was in groups of people who were learning this work, I began to experience the possibilities of a group joining together to heal. I saw there was an incredible potential and began experimenting with group processes. Through this experimentation I have developed a process I call "Deep Living - The Game of Honesty, Courage, and Consciousness."

I am currently leading groups based on this game, continuing training people in the way I work, and occasionally giving private sessions. My primary interest is exploring what is possible when groups of people get together. I am very interested in forming a small group of dedicated people who would like to explore this deeply. I am also interested in starting to explore what is possible when working with larger groups.

I have recently felt it appropriate to start to share what I have learned with a broader audience. I have redone the website and am producing videos, audio recordings, and written texts. I’m excited to see what comes of this.

My partner, Sarah, and I have moved to northern Germany where we are involved in starting a community of people interested in experimenting with living together consciously. We are also expecting a child in July 2009.

I am incredibly grateful for the degree of happiness and fulfillment I have found in my life. My greatest joy comes from helping others find the happiness and fulfillment that are rightfully theirs.