Valerie Shoaps is a personal wellness coach in San Francisco, CA. Combining massage therapy, fitness and nutrition training, meditation instruction with a blended spiritual path of Buddhism, Conscious Breathwork and Ipsalu Tantra, she brings a unique vision to helping her clients reach their goals and overcome obstacles and shortcomings. She is also an avid golfer and a semi-professional photographer. She has a background in graphic design and is an accomplished film editor and multimedia production artist.

In the mid 90's, she became involved in web design and internet marketing. Never afraid of taking on new challenges, one creative venture lead to another, from basic web development, to early Flash animation, web video compression specialist to finally a film editor. After working on a number of acclaimed projects and contributing to seminar panels on the state of digital video, she decided to move into a completely different direction.

Following her intuition, she found herself in massage school. On unfamiliar ground, she continued to her state certification. However, it was when the concepts of intuitive healing and energy work entered into the curriculum, that it finally began to click for her. One can imitate the movements of a healer, but without the skills of holistic and intuitive healing, the results are incomparable. It's similar to speaking a language versus merely mimicking the words that someone else says.

Mind, Body, Spirit

In 2012, Valerie blended her skill set into a focused direction in becoming a personal wellness coach. Based in San Francisco, she maintains clients from Silicon Valley to Marin. To schedule a consultation, discuss your needs or for more information, please contact her from one of the methods below. Her new website, InBliss.me, goes live June 2012.