About

Natalie weaves together a business with a selection of services that reflect over 20 years of following the things that move and inspire her.

She creates integrative nature-based experiences and offers mind+body healing through Thai massage, sound, and Ayurvedic practices. Her studio is based in Susanville, in the northeast corner of California, where the Sierra and Cascade mountain ranges come together, and meet the expansive high desert. Since she lives rurally, she works regionally and you can find her offerings throughout and beyond northern California.

In her late 20s and 30s, she lived fairly nomadically, and travelled around the US and the world as a botanist and as a seeker. She even lived in a school bus that she converted, for about 5 years! She’s always had a creative side, and has explored many mediums, including painting, mosaic, woodworking, printmaking, and more. Much of her artwork is botanically inspired, and aside from what’s available in her shop, she’s contributed scientific drawings for newly described species, and created logos and designs for other botanical consultants and non-profits.

She offers intuitive photo sessions that can be added onto retreat packages; she focuses on photography for other yogis, healers, and retreat leaders, and on the beauty of the natural world.

After enduring hardship and loss in many forms beginning in her early 20s, the deeper philosophical and spiritual practices she learned from her studies in yoga and Ayurveda helped lead her to know contentment, acceptance, and peace at a deeper level than she’d ever experienced. She is called to share these practices through private and public classes, workshops, longer programs, and retreats.

She selectively offers botanical consulting services throughout the west, primarily focusing on large-scale jobs on public lands. Her expertise lies in finding and mapping rare plants, and collecting hydrogeomorphic data in wetland ecosystems, especially fens.

Credentials:

• RYT-200, Mancos, Colorado with Monica Mesa and Lily Russo (2016)

• RYT-300, Rishikesh, India (March 2018)

• 600-hr Ayurveda Health Counselor, Shakti School (March 2024)

• Thai Yoga Massage certificate, Old Medicine School, Chiang Mai, Thailand (January 2020)

• Multiple yogic pilgrimages in the Himalayas (Muktinath: 2020/2023, 2024); Gosaikunda (2024)

• Ashtanga intensive with master yogini Annie Pace (2017)

• Certificate in Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Seattle (2001)

• Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication of Environmental Issues, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (2006)

• Master of Environmental Studies, Evergreen State College (2009)

• Current Wilderness First Responder certification since 2015

• Many other supplemental trainings and workshops to continue a lifelong journey of learning

Contact Natalie for information on yoga and wellness offerings, photography sessions, botanical consulting, or commissioned work, and subscribe to her newsletter to stay up to date with her newest offerings.