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Welcome.
I'm Timothy.

I didn’t come to this work because I had life figured out.

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I came to it because I knew I most certainly did not.

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When I was younger, I felt like a caged tiger — full of urgency and desire to do good in the world, but without a clear avenue to express it. That intensity stagnated and often turned inward or spilled outward in unskillful ways. I could see how my own anxiety, frustration, and reactivity shaped my life and affected the people around me.

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I desperately wanted to fix that. Every bit of it.

How this path began

The first impulse on my healing path was intensive excavation.


If I could get to the root of everything —

resolve every pattern —

heal my woundedness completely, 

I believed I could finally move forward freely with my life.

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I was drawn towards the profession of massage therapy.

Surely this was a way I could make a meaningful contribution.

I started out wanting to fix everyone else

 

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​That led me deeper into bodywork training;

attending a flurry of "advanced" workshops

where the emphasis was on first healing the therapist. 

I could excavate all I wanted. 

Despite my exhaustive efforts, it seemed there was always another layer for me to work through. 

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Gradually my perspective started to shift. 

After years of listening to the wisdom of the body

through my hands and​ guided increasingly

by my Intuition and curious Heart, 

a new path began to unfold. 

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The lesson unfolding

Healing wasn’t about vanquishing all of my demons. 

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I learned that how I best serve — others and myself —
is not by forcing,
but by creating space
for the body’s natural healing rhythm to emerge.

​​To hold that space with presence and patience.  

That Integration is a vital piece of this process-

Allowing time and space for the mind, body, and heart to align.

From this place authentic healing naturally flows. 

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​My meditation practice deepened this understanding.

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Sitting.

Returning.

Sitting again.

Opening. 

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Making space for what was there.

All that was imperfect, messy, unfinished. 

All that was exquisite, subtle, innocent. 

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Having compassion for this vessel

and all that it has been through.

All it has already overcome.

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​Life did not become any less uncertain.

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What changed was my relationship to it.

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And that continues to make all the difference.  

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I continue to make space-

for all of it.

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The full range of experience:

frustration, confusion, fear, grief,

jubilation, exhilaration, calm.​​

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To return,

to nourish,

to integrate.

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​The body became the door through which I could reliably return.

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​Compassion,

curiosity,

and consistency

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​became the keys. 

Where I am now

I’m not offering something from a finished place.

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There is continuous room for growth.

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In it's own time.

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 At its own rhythm.

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I’m still practicing.

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Still learning.

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Still allowing myself to be human.

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Mindfulness and embodied awareness are tools I use to meet life more openly —

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and they are the skills that I share with others.

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The Easy Tigar reflects the shift —

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from urgency without direction

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to intensity expressed rhythmically,

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returning home to the body.

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If this resonates, you are welcome to explore with me.

the easy tigar

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returning to embodied presence

Practice in-person

Shanteel Yoga Sellersville  PA

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Shanteel Yoga

New Britain  PA

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