Nora is passionate about teaching people to come more deeply into contact with themselves and others through the art of touching with presence, sensitivity and listening hands. Her journey into the healing arts began at age fourteen when she took her first Reiki class and continued when she first found her way to Esalen in 1999. Since then, Nora devoted her life to the exploration of body, mind, heart and spirit that lead her into studying many forms of bodywork, Gestalt awareness practice, yoga, dance, movement-based expressive arts therapy at the Tamalpa Institute, prenatal and birth therapy training with Ray Castellino, as well as becoming a TRE tension/trauma releasing exercise provider. All of her work is supported by her studies of the Diamond Approach for self-realization.​

She teaches Esalen massage at Esalen Institute, Bali, Australia and Spain. After being a long term Esalen® Massage Crew member she is now in the San Francisco Bay Area in private practice.