From understanding the world to inhabiting myself.

For more than a decade, I worked in global health education and community engagement, helping people connect, learn, and navigate meaningful experiences. My background in psychology shaped how I understand people, patterns, relationships, and change.

Alongside that work, yoga, meditation, and embodied practices became increasingly important in my own life.

I began to recognize that understanding ourselves is only one part of the journey.

We can know our patterns and still find ourselves repeating them. We can understand our worth and still struggle to take up space. We can spend years working on ourselves and still feel disconnected from the body, desires, and expression that make us feel alive.

I became interested in the space between insight and embodiment.

What does it look like to live what we know? To trust ourselves in real time? To let our growth shape how we move, speak, create, connect, and choose?

That curiosity continues to guide my work.

Rising Rose brings together the threads that have shaped me: psychology, yoga, mindfulness, somatic exploration, creativity, and the belief that personal growth can be both deeply meaningful and wonderfully alive.