I love my work! It is a great privilege to support my fellow humans in more brightly inhabiting the bodies they each call home.
Movement, curiosity and deep attention to detail have always driven me, but what brought me to my work today was sitting in a chair, a really bad chair.
I have been a therapeutic movement practitioner in the Bay Area for more than 20 years and a dancer, artist, and improviser all my life. As an environmental and social justice magazine editor, I developed a debilitating repetitive strain injury from “just” sitting. I had splitting headaches, could barely hold a fork and needed two hands to hold my morning coffee.
With great Pilates instruction, Chiropractic, Massage and Acupuncture, I recovered fully. The fun part is that not only did I regain full function, but, at the urging of my chiropractor, I found I could join my vast body-knowledge from dance practice with grounded knowledge of anatomy from my biological psychology degree and apply my detail oriented editor’s mind to pay it forward and help others.
When I’m not nerding out for the good of others, you’ll find this east-coaster-by-roots reading, dancing, swimming, doing yoga or walking my sweet pup Gracie through the wonderful, diverse, far-lefty leaning and LGBTQ++ friendly Bay Area I’m proud to call my home.
Education & Influence
Hendrickson Method Institute Practitioner & Therapist Certification with Tom Hendrickson, DC, Frank Haseloff & Giles Gamble - 2010/11 & 2015-17
Ellie Herman Pilates, Pilates Certification with Ellie Herman & Rehabilitation Mentorship with Lizz Roman - 1998-2000
Polestar Education, Completion of Polestar Pilates Rehabilitation Course for Medical Professionals - 2000
Extensive Training in Noguchi Taiso within the context of Butoh dance with: Mari Osanai, Minako Seki, Yuko Kaseki, Shinichi Iova-Koga and many others
Extensive Training in western contemporary dance, dance/theater improvisation, and other movement education such as yoga, Feldenkrais, Suzuki Method with far too many teachers to name
Tufts University, BS Biological Psychology, Concentration in Dance, Courses in Dance Therapy - 1994