When I started my journey to balance my health in 1989, Virginia (my “stepmother”) and I would spend HOURS traveling between our home and various doctors, practitioners and healers. We would spend a minimum of 90 minutes in the car and a maximum of 5 hours.

When I lived in New York, I would get in the car every Saturday and drive to visit Beth, my Reiki professional in Norwalk, CT or visit the Ayurvedic doctor in Fairfield, CT, both at least 90 minutes away from our apartment in NYC. Even though I was fully committed to my health and wellbeing, access to these services made the journey costly and challenging.

As I started to unplug from my advertising career and shift focus to Ayurveda, I started to imagine a wellbeing center which was centrally located, offering multiple integrative modalities, including western medicine. 

In 2010, my husband & I left New York City and moved to Sonoma County, California. I was working for Lululemon in Marin County, CA at the time, and along the way met Ginger Schechter, MD.

At that time, Ginger was the Medical Director of the Veterans Administration in Santa Rosa, CA. Ginger came to a workshop I was giving on Ayurvedic medicine. I vividly remember her sitting in the front row and looking at me through squinty eyes. I was very nervous, but didn’t realize that Ginger was actually there to address her own health crisis.

Over the course of the following 2 years, Ginger became a patient of mine, and we traveled to India together to receive Pancha Karma (Ayurvedic detoxification therapies), and for the first time since became ill, Ginger’s symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis started to reverse. 

Whilst in India, Ginger and I created our road map to building an integrative medical center with a focus on bridging western and alternative therapies.

I purchased two yoga studios in 2015 with the intention of building our idea of creating integrative medical community center. But the locations weren’t ideal for what we had in mind, so we went on the hunt for the perfect location.

In 2016, I found a great location in downtown Santa Rosa, and in 2017, we moved into our freshly renovated space, along with Ginger, and a group of integrative and alternative medical practitioners, which we now call Well Sonoma

At its core, and in building an integrative practice and community, my focus with Well+Sonoma is to align with the right balance of like-minded wellbeing and medical professionals to offer their service and skills under one roof.

In addition to yoga classes, yoga therapy and ongoing education, Well Sonoma also offers , Ayurveda, Corrective Functional Movement therapy, CranioSascral therapy, Massage therapy, Naturopathic medicine, Visceral Manipulation therapy, Western Medicine & Yoga therapy.

Collaboration is key, and it’s because of this collaborative nature that we are able to offer our community an integrative approach under one roof.

The intention for Well Sonoma is to replicate what we’ve built, and bring the concept and practice to other communities, making all integrative modalities accessible and affordable to all who seek them.