• Spiritual Healing 

Rachel is an Inner Alignment Practitioner certified by Kimberly Beekman and the Inner Alignment Healing Team. She has integrated her Inner Alignment experience with over twenty years of personal training, health coaching, basketball coaching, reiki training, meditation training, yoga training, and educational leadership, to serve her clients.

 

• Yoga and Meditation 

Rachel is a Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Instructor (RYT 200) who did her training through Yoga Farm Ithaca’s Radiant Warrior Hatha and Vinyasa yoga teacher training program. She also has studied Trauma-Informed Yoga, and Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra Meditation with the guidance of her teacher Lynn Fraser. Rachel’s experience includes teaching Yoga and Meditation in schools, the local community, and with high school athletes. She believes in the tremendous value of a daily meditation practice.

 

• Athletics 

Rachel was a three-sport high school athlete, playing field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse on the varsity level. She went on to play basketball for the Amherst Women’s Basketball Team at Amherst College and knows the demands of being a college athlete as well as the highs and lows of competitive sports. She has coached varsity basketball teams, has built positive team cultures, and has helped motivate and encourage clients of all ages to find inner peace, strength, and awareness, and honor the divine light that resides within. Asa college athlete who experienced injuries and an eating disorder, she has empathy and an understanding of all the pressures that young student athletes face and brings this awareness to her work with individuals and teams.

 

• Educational Administration and Leadership 

Rachel has been a school administrator for over twenty years working in Quaker schools, as well as private PK-12 day and boarding schools.  As a community builder, leader, director of diversity equity and inclusion, director of admission, advisor, coach, and head of a residential dorm, she has incorporated restorative practices and fosters safe spaces where her students, faculty, staff, and parents feel seen, heard, and affirmed. Rachel loves professional development and is constantly enrolled in continuing education courses in areas of leadership, DEI practices, gender and sexuality, and residential life. As the mother of two students in independent boarding schools and college, she knows firsthand the stressors that parents/guardians face as they navigate admission processes, and support their children through the physical, mental, emotional trials and tribulations as well as the joys realized through the learning experience. As the mother of a transgender son, she continues to educate herself and others on the gender spectrum and gender inclusion and has navigated gender affirming medical and psychological care and support plans for her child as well as others in school settings.

 

• Personal

Rachel lives in Bucks County, PA and is the mother of two amazing humans!