Hi! I’m Nathan.

My work with healing and my work with building might seem to be two separate things, but they come from the same driving philosophy in my life: The purpose is to translate spiritual form into physical form, and the physical form back to spiritual form.

It’s about the rhythmic balanced interchange between the Soul and the World. Both arts focus on bringing harmony into the world, wether that be the health of the body or the form of a building. Ultimately, a healthy body allows the will of the spirit to translate into the world, and a beautiful building inspires the body to reach back towards sprit.

My journey toward being a good craftsman is rather straight forward —It’s just a part of me. Ancestrally, I come from a line of artists on my mothers side, and a line of industrialists and engineers on my fathers. Artistic building is simply in my blood.

My journey towards the healing modality of Craniosacral, on the other hand, is more of a transformative process for me. Perhaps it started with my BS in Molecular Biology, and the foundational education for understanding allopathic medicine. But allopathy being what it is, and my soul having a rebellious temperament when it comes to the orthodox ways of modern medicine, I sought out something else.

I got the Cranial Osteopath transmission from Patrick Wedlake, a DO who used to practice In Ashland, OR before he retired to Chile. From the founder of Osteopathy, A.T. Still, to his protégé, Southerland, to Southerland’s fine students Fulford and Wales, to Wedlake, to me. This work really is a lineage tradition, passed down from heart and hand to the next generation. I spent around 120 hours with my hands on Patrick’s patients along side his, learning my way through the subtle energies of the body. I received my accredited Visionary Craniosacral Therapy certificate through the Milne Institute, a wonderfully sensitive and deep training that truly brings heart and vision to the art of this work. To become an licensed massage therapist, I went to the Pacific Center for Awareness and Bodywork in Kauai, HI. But ultimately, my true teacher is the intersection of form and spirit within myself and my clients. That intersection is the sacred animating force of life. Southerland called it the Breath of Life. Year by year I learn more about what that truly means.