Lila approaches the natural world and I Ching like a trusted Grandparent. A return to kinship.

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, has guided people for more than three thousand years through its careful observation of nature's recurring patterns and the underlying binary code of Yin and Yang, offering wisdom that remains as relevant today as when it was first recorded in China during the 11th centure BCE. The core text was written around 1050–1046 BCE during the transition from the Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty. It originated in the historic homeland of the Zhou people, located in the Wei River valley of modern-day Shaanxi Province, China. The text was initially called the Zhou Yi (Changes of Zhou). It was recorded on bamboo strips and silk scrolls, as paper had not yet been invented.

She holds a Master of Arts in Ecopsychology from Naropa University and has completed more than 500 hours of professional training in acupressure from the Berkeley Acupressure Institute. Her continuing education includes Shin Somatics from East-West Somatics and a life long passion for divination and mentors that have blessed her life within all the places she has called home. Please see her dedication page below. She is drawing on decades of practice and service. She also served as Vice President of the Hawaiʻi Association of International Buddhists from 2017 to 2020 in Oahu.

As an Ecopsychology Strategist with MKThink, she supported statewide initiatives for the Hawaiʻi Department of Education for 8 years, coordinated field teams across six islands, and contributed to the Education Specifications for Oakland Unified School District supporting Living School Yards. Working alongside educators, planners, architects, engineers, cultural practitioners and local communities strengthened her commitment to cultural humility, collaboration, mutual causality and systems thinking.

Earlier in her career, she worked as a naturalist and bear guide in the Tongass National Forest, an interpretive ranger with Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, a kayak guide in Misty Fjords National Monument, a teacher at Holden High School in Orinda, California, and a program and volunteer specialist with Girl Scouts of Alaska, where she designed and executed leadership programs, events, and curriculum.

With ancestry and family in the British Isles, She was born in Berkeley, California, on the ancestral lands of the Ohlone. She found home in both Southeast Alaska and Hawaiʻi before returning to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2025. She practices pendulum dowsing as a continuation of her family's dowsing lineage. Her great grandfather was a dowser in rural England who was called upon to locate water for wells throughout his community during the war. Like dowsing for water beneath the earth, her work is one of listening for the deeper currents that quietly nourish a person's life. Carl Jung's lifelong study of the I Ching and its influence on his understanding of synchronicity continues to inform her work as an ecopsychologist, where, time, psyche, soul, and the living world are understood as inseparable.