About Lumi

Lumi has been a therapeutic and Thai bodywork practitioner since 2005. Her studies and practice have taken her across the United States and internationally, including extended training in India and Thailand. Her work integrates somatic awareness and nervous system regulation, supporting both physical ease and deeper inner reorientation.

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In 2008, she founded Bodhi of Life, and in 2012 created Bodhi of Life Thai Massage Collective, Asheville’s first Thai massage collective, supporting both practitioners and the wider community through collaborative, integrity-based bodywork.

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Lumi is a lead facilitator of international retreats with Inchanted Journeys, guiding groups to edge places around the world — from Delphi in Greece, to walking pilgrimages across Ireland, to journeys above the Arctic Circle in Norway. Her retreat work is rooted in reverence for land, presence, and the understanding that place itself carries wisdom and medicine.

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Alongside retreat facilitation, Lumi continues to serve tea ceremonially in group and one-on-one settings. She studies and serves tea within a Cha Dao lineage, honoring tea as a contemplative and relational practice that supports presence, attentiveness, and inner stillness.

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Her current work focuses on one-on-one mentorship, BodyMind Integration, and land-based retreats, offering steady, relational support for those navigating transition, deepening awareness, and reorientation in their lives.

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In her off time, she can often be found drinking tea, wandering her land, chopping wood and carrying water, and reading or writing poetry.