In 1990, on pilgrimage in Nepal, she met a one-hundred-and-six-year-old lama named Charok Rinpoche living in a remote cave, from whom she received the practice of the Earth Treasure Vases. For over twenty years she has traveled to diverse cultures around the world facilitating collaborations with young activists and indigenous elders in a unique ritual that strengthens community and catalyzes solutions to the planet’s problems. She founded Alliance for the Earth, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the emergence of a global community committed to planetary healing and collective awakening. She directs the Open Way Sangha in New Mexico.