"Your visions will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." C.G.Jung

I came across Jin Shin Do® during a tough personal crisis at the beginning of 1990. A friend who had attended a few courses gave me several treatments. I just could not believe that it was possible to “press away” both physical and psychological pain, and that through this I connected deeper with myself!

So I started to read every book I could find about JSD. From an early age I had read a lot about Taoism and Zen Buddhism, done T’ai Chi Ch’uan for years, so what I was reading now really resonated in me. After a while I decided I wanted to learn JSD myself, so I contacted the very source, Iona Marsaa Teeguarden in California. After several very nice conversations on the phone, I decided to contact Pierluigi Duina in Italy, here, at Body Mind Center in Brescia is where I got my whole education. I did many a trip back and forth to Italy, and several good friendships were founded!

At last, in the autumn of 2006 I travelled to Iona Maarsa Teeguarden in California to become a teacher in JSD. Through Iona I gained an insight into JSD nobody else could have given me! I also took two special courses with her, concerning both trauma (PTSD) and abuse issues. This was an amazingly instructive time, and I established many new contacts with people from different parts of the world. After I came back home I’ve held several courses both in Norway and in Sweden, besides having started Garda International JSD Summer School together with my former teacher Pierluigi Duina.

I have an academic background in social anthropology, drama/theatre, Norwegian (language and literature), and multicultural pedagogic. For about 25 years I have been teaching people from all over the world, and I believe strongly that we are all very similar no matter where we come from. It’s a great pleasure for me to work internationally, and one of my dreams is to spread JSD across the world.

Because I need the freedom and the ”thought span” given to me by nature, I live in the countryside with my dogs and cats. I am deeply aware of all kind of connections, and therefore, also necessarily of human beings relationship to nature. Thus, I am educated in aromatherapy and herbal therapy, among my many other interests.