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Welcome.
I'm Timothy.

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


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

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.

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.

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

 

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. 

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. 

The lesson unfolding

Healing wasn’t about vanquishing all of my demons. 

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. 

My meditation practice deepened this understanding.

Sitting.

Returning.

Sitting again.

Opening. 

Making space for what was there.

All that was imperfect, messy, unfinished. 

All that was exquisite, subtle, innocent. 

Having compassion for this vessel

and all that it has been through.

All it has already overcome.

​Life did not become any less uncertain.

What changed was my relationship to it.

And that continues to make all the difference.  

I continue to make space-

for all of it.

The full range of experience:

frustration, confusion, fear, grief,

jubilation, exhilaration, calm.

To return,

to nourish,

to integrate.

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

Compassion,

curiosity,

and consistency

became the keys. 

Where I am now

I’m not offering something from a finished place.

There is continuous room for growth.

In it's own time.

 At its own rhythm.


I’m still practicing.

Still learning.

Still allowing myself to be human.

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

and they are the skills that I share with others.

The Easy Tigar reflects the shift —

from urgency without direction

to intensity expressed rhythmically,

returning home to the body.

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

Shanteel Yoga

New Britain  PA

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