Di was in high school when Deepak's first book "Creating Health" was published in 1986. It became a favorite among the alternative medicine books  now accumulating on her home's bookshelves.

" I was exhausted all through college but I pulled it off"

 Di graduated from college with a California Teaching Credential, a BA in Deaf Studies and a credential in sign language interpreting.   She moved to San Diego to pursue a job teaching the deaf but found a path of Alternative Healing .

" I may have been taking classes in high school and college, but my true schooling was the outer and inner work my illness was forcing me to do.   Life didn't suddenly get easier with this realization, but certainly much more fascinating.

"Still fatigued, I felt it made sense to focus on a career in my everday rituals -Alternative Medicine. "

In 1995 she enrolled in the School of Healing Arts in San Diego pursuing a Holistic Health Practioner's license. Here she earned her license in various massage therapies, bodywork and a certificate in oriental medicine and shiatsu.  

  "Finding a school that shared my beliefs surrounding the energetics of the human body, gave me affirmational confidence and helped enhanced my natural wisdom, skills and intuitive gifts. For instance I grew up in a society where such a thing as seeing an auric field was a little absurd.  And being yet the  sensitive child that I was, I experienced a very loud energetic world, a world not necessaryily seen by others .   At the school, auras were not only a concept accepted, but a method that was explained scientifically in depth and had an ancient history.. I was attending this school when I heard the announcement of Deepak coming to La Jolla. I knew my future involved Deepak and I was ready. "

In 1996, while the new Chopra Center was still under construction,  Deepak sent his patients to a temporary small clinic around the corner.  It was here Di was first hired and trained as an ayurvedic technician.  When the Chopra Center opened in La Jolla, Di helped train newly hired massage therapists as ayervedic techs.  She worked at the Chopra Center for several years, deepening her practice of mediation, practicing yoga, and giving / receiving body work. 

"I was very lucky to have learned meditation from Deepak.  He generously met with about seven of us in 1996 teaching us advanced meditation techniques,  prerequisites to join the advanced group in the upcoming meditation seminar - the first Seduction of Spirit in San Diego.  That week long meditation seminar solidified my beliefs on the benefits of meditation and I knew I needed to teach this technique to others."

Di became a Certified Chopra Meditation Instructor and for several more years assisted in these week long meditation seminars held all over the country, often working closely with Deepak as she guided the seminar's alumni groups. Before moving to Kaua'i , Di helped train new Chopra Meditation Instructors at the Teacher Training Programs. 

On June 26, 2006 Di had an incredible healing, an out of body experience that cured her entirely of her then frequent seizures, disabling fatigue, and limited lifestyle. She was now able to work full time, build some finance and finally move to her long desired location, Kaua'i.

She now lives on the island of Kaua'i teaching Deepak's meditation technique to those who want to deepen their own practice or learn a new one.

 "I am finally home here on Kaua'i. I feel blessed that she embraces me the way she does. Kaua'i is purity, she is organic, she is self sustainable.  Here at last I feel settled and nurtured by my surroundings. I am perpetually grateful that I live on an island that grants the opportunity to be at one with this planet as much as possible. I still feel the change of seasons here but I can be barefoot in the winter, breathe fresh outdoor air while I sleep, and swim in clean saltwater to purify myself of toxin build up - all qualities I need for good health and survival.  I will do my best returning the favor to her as I play my part raising the vibrational level of Kaua'i and her inhabitants." 

Not only does Di teach Deepak's courses of meditation, she works full time at Kaua'i High School  as a Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf.