Healthy Homes. Restorative Hospitality. Experiential Design.
I don't consult
from the outside.
I build from the inside.
25 years building at the intersection of luxury hospitality and human health.
I've opened and operated world-class spa and wellness environments across four continents, led Aman's global spa division across 23 properties in 14 countries, directed pre-opening projects for Rocco Forte Hotels across Europe, and helped develop a destination wellness resort concept in India that integrated Ayurveda, Western medicine, nutrition, yoga, and holistic therapy under one roof.
I've also spent four years inside the biohacking industry, working closely with the founders and practitioners who are advancing human performance science. That proximity gave me something more valuable than credentials:
the ability to distinguish what genuinely works from what is well-packaged noise.
Sana Stays is built from all of it.
This work didn't begin as a business idea.
In high school, Epstein-Barr and recurring mononucleosis compromised my immune system and took away my ability to keep dancing. That loss, at a formative age, became the first question: how do we actually heal?
After a series of car accidents left me with chronic pain and injury, I stopped looking for answers in conventional medicine alone and started looking everywhere else. Chiropractic. Acupuncture. Chinese medicine. Bodywork. Detoxification. Yoga. Trauma-informed healing.
That search became a career.
At 21, I left the United States on a one-way ticket to Europe. Over the next 25 years, I worked across Hawaii, Germany, England, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, France, China, India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, studying how different cultures approach healing, medicine, food, nature, and the body.
The deeper I went, the more one thing became clear.
"The environment is not a backdrop to health. It is a direct input."
Later, living with mold exposure, I experienced firsthand what an unhealthy environment does to the body. Brain fog. Fatigue. Immune dysregulation. Inflammation. At the same time, I watched both of my parents go through aggressive cancer treatment, and I could not ignore what the research was showing about environmental toxins, immune burden, and long-term disease.
That convergence made this mission unavoidable.
25+
Years in global luxury hospitality & wellness
30+
Properties opened, developed, or elevated across five continents
20+
Countries overseeing high-end operational hospitality & wellness
1st
Ketamine-assisted neurofeedback program worldwide
Biohacking expertise built on discernment, not trend.
Four years working inside 40 Years of Zen gave me direct access to the leaders and innovators shaping the human performance and biohacking space. I worked alongside neuroscience experts, deepened my studies within neuroscience, brainwave states, consciousness, human performance, biohacking and nervous system regulation, and gained firsthand exposure to what actually makes an impact on human health and performance and what is sophisticated marketing dressed up as science.
That discernment is built into everything Sana does.
When I recommend an intervention, a material, a filtration system, or a design principle, it is because the evidence supports it. Not because it is trending.
The Origin
This work is personal.
I grew up in Seattle. I spent decades building world-class wellness environments across the globe. And I got sick.
Not dramatically. Gradually, the way most environmental illness works.
Fatigue that wouldn't lift. Brain fog that clouded everything. Immune dysregulation I couldn't explain. Eventually, a mold diagnosis that made the pattern undeniable.
At the same time, I watched both of my parents go through aggressive cancer treatment. Their diagnoses carried documented links to environmental toxin exposure. I sat with that reality for a long time.
When the person who has spent 25 years designing healing environments can still be undone by their own home, that is not a personal failure.
That is a systems problem.
I became certain that most homes and hospitality spaces are not designed with human biology in mind. They are designed for appearance. For convenience. For cost efficiency. And they quietly work against the people living and staying inside them.
Sana Stays exists to change that.
"When people and planet come first, profit follows. That is not idealism. It is a design principle."
The Framework
Science-backed. Soul-aligned. Built for real spaces.
The Sana framework addresses five pillars that determine whether a home or property actively supports health: air and water quality, materials and toxic exposure, circadian and sensory environment, connection to nature, and the human experience that results from getting all of it right.
Every standard is evidence-informed. Every recommendation is practical. The goal is never perfection. It is measurable, meaningful improvement in how people feel in the spaces where they spend most of their lives.
Air + Water Quality
Materials + Toxic Exposure
Circadian + Sensory Environment
Connection to Nature
Human Experience + Restoration
Ready to build something amazing together?
Whether you are a property owner ready to elevate your guest experience and stand out in a crowded market, a hospitality brand rethinking your wellness standards, or someone who wants to understand what is happening inside your own home, there is a clear place to begin.