For fifteen years, I worked at the highest levels of nuclear science: managing research programs, leading international teams, and building a career that looked extraordinary from the outside.
Then my body hit a wall...and I had no choice but to stop.
For fifteen years, I worked at the highest levels of nuclear science: managing research programs, leading international teams, and building a career that looked extraordinary from the outside.
Then my body hit a wall...and I had no choice but to stop.
art is wellness
The year I took to rest, travel, and rebuild everything from the inside out became the most important research of my life. I learned that beauty is not decorative - it is necessary. That the body knows things the mind cannot. That a slower life is not a smaller one.
This experience led me to found Astreya - a private fine art gallery dedicated to calm - and to develop a body of work at the intersection of neuroaesthetics: art, science, and wellbeing.
I am currently based in San Diego and relocating to the south of France in summer 2026, where I am building the next chapter of this work.
The year I took to rest, travel, and rebuild everything from the inside out became the most important research of my life. I learned that beauty is not decorative - it is necessary. That the body knows things the mind cannot. That a slower life is not a smaller one.
That experience led me to found Astreya - a private fine art gallery and sanctuary - and to develop a body of work at the intersection of neuroscience, somatic practice, and photography.
I am currently based in San Diego and relocating to the south of France, where I am building the next chapter of this work.
three ways to work together
Learn:
digital offerings for calm
Learn:
digital offerings
for calm
Experience:
the astreya gallery
Explore:
creative work
Somatic practices you can use anywhere, any time, from a certified breathwork + meditation guide. No equipment, no app, no hour-long commitment.
Private Stillness Sessions and fine art at the Astreya gallery. Relocating to the south of France in summer 2026.
Poetry, sound recordings, and photography from an ongoing practice of paying attention.
Reset at Your Desk — free 4-minute somatic video
Practice of Peace — $47 mini-course, 90-second practices for your day
Quit with Confidence — $7 guidebook for your next career move
Learn more about a Stillness Session
View the stop/motion collection
View my portfolio
Read 'Seeking Stillness'
spotlight on astreya
spotlight on astreya
Astreya is an immersive fine art gallery, the first of its kind to be built entirely on neuroaesthetics: the proven science of how beauty relaxes the mind and body. By engaging the senses with gentle sound, botanical scents, beautiful art, and slow breath, Astreya's visitors are invited into a luxurious world of instant stillness.
This is calm by design - peace as performance art - and curation as wellbeing.
Astreya is an immersive fine art gallery, the first of its kind to be built entirely on neuroaesthetics: the proven science of how beauty relaxes the mind and body. By engaging the senses with gentle sound, botanical scents, beautiful art, and slow breath, Astreya's visitors are invited into a luxurious world of instant stillness.
This is calm by design - peace as performance art - and curation as wellbeing.
seeking stillness: building a neuroaesthetic life
seeking stillness: building a neuroaesthetic life
As I relocate my gallery and art practice to the south of France, 'Seeking Stillness' documents a dream life in progress.
I write about building a life that actually feels good - through art, environment, neuroscience, and breath - and what I'm learning along the way.
Follow along for the practical - the breaths I use when fear shows up at 2am, the framework I rely on when it’s time to leave something, the specific choices that keep me regulated through chaos - as well as the personal - what it feels like to dismantle a life and rebuild it somewhere else, what the Côte d’Azur looks like at 7am, what it means to finally arrive at the place you’ve always been going...
As I relocate my gallery and art practice to the south of France, 'Seeking Stillness' documents a dream life in progress.
I write about building a life that actually feels good: through art, environment, neuroscience, breathwork, and what I'm learning along the way.
Follow along for the practical - the somatic tools I use when fear shows up at 2am, the framework I use to know when it’s time to leave something, the specific practices that keep me regulated through chaos - and the personal - what it feels like to dismantle a life and rebuild it somewhere else, what the Côte d’Azur looks like at 7am, what it means to finally arrive at the place you’ve always been going.
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