About Facilitator

Hi, I'm Dee

I have always been interested in how things connect.

Long before Body, Breath & Being existed, much of my professional life was spent organizing knowledge.

I trained as a librarian and later moved into digital asset management, metadata, and taxonomy - fields concerned with understanding information, identifying relationships, and creating structures that help people navigate complexity.

At first, that work might seem far removed from movement, breath, and meditation.

For me, it isn't.

FROM INFORMATION TO EXPERIENCE

A taxonomist looks for relationships. What belongs together? What distinguishes one thing from another? What larger pattern connects seemingly separate ideas? How can something complex be organized without losing its richness?Those questions followed me beyond my professional work.

For years, I have also studied and practiced yoga, meditation, breathwork, aromatics, and contemplative traditions. Eventually, these two parts of my life began speaking to each other. I became interested not simply in individual practices, but in how practices could be thoughtfully organized around an idea to create an experience.

A breath practice does one thing. A movement does another. A gesture of the hands introduces something else. An image from nature can change how we understand all three. When intentionally brought together, the individual pieces can become something greater than their parts.

That idea became Body, Breath & Being.

WHY THE SEASONS?

Nature gives us a language we already understand.

We know what it is to begin. To grow. To flourish. To change. To release. To become quiet. And to begin again.

We encounter those movements in the natural world, but we also encounter them throughout a human life.

The seasons give Body, Breath & Being a familiar starting place from which deeper experiences can unfold.

Residents don't need to study a system or understand the architecture behind a session.

That part is my work. Their work is simply to experience it.

WHY OLDER ADULTS?

There is a depth to later life that deserves programming with depth of its own.

Older adults bring decades of memory, change, relationship, loss, discovery, adaptation, work, love, transition, and experience into the room.

I don't believe meaningful programming for older adults needs to become simplistic simply because the physical practice is gentle.

Body, Breath & Being was created from the opposite premise.

The body can be met gently while the person is engaged deeply.

The practices are accessible. The ideas are rich. And every resident is free to participate in the way that is right for them.

THE PRACTICE BEHIND THE WORK

My approach is informed by years of study and practice across both information science and embodied wellness.

I hold a Master of Arts in Information Resources and Library Science and have professional experience in librarianship, digital asset management, metadata, and taxonomy.

I am also a 500-hour trained Yoga and Meditation Instructor and a Certified Medicinal Aromatherapist. I completed my medicinal aromatherapy certification with Wisdom of the Earth, an essential oil company and training center based in Cornville, Arizona. I continue to partner with them for the oils I bring into my in-person experiences.

Body, Breath & Being brings these seemingly different disciplines together: the structure of a taxonomist, the curiosity of a librarian, and the experiential practice of movement, breath, meditation, and contemplation.

The result is not simply a class I teach. It is an experience I design.

BODY. BREATH. BEING.

Perhaps the simplest description of my work is contained in its name.

Body — the physical experience of being here.

Breath — the rhythm that accompanies us through every moment.

Being — everything we discover when we become present enough to notice.

Body, Breath & Being brings all three together.

One season.
One week at a time.
One experience at a time.

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