I’m a somatic coach and professional pilates movement educator. Feeling strong, capable, balanced, resilient, safe, and at ease in my body has been a life-long dance.

The combination and consistency of somatic coaching & practices, pilates, and strength training has taught me how to listen to my body, feel more aliveness and possibility, integrate the wisdom of my body in decision-making, become skilled at tough conversations, heal my historical trauma and shame, deepen my capacity to feel and be with emotions, build fulfilling relationships, practice different types of boundaries for different situations, move through change with more grace and ease, and develop the skills needed for generative conflict‍. ‍

For many years movement was the necessary activation and release that provided me with the strength and continued resilience to keep moving forward in life. Doing this from a place of survival also created a lot of burnout and injury. That burnout and injury also showed up in other areas of my life.

I spent many years in management roles within the restaurant and live music industry, and eventually pivoted to start my own professional organizing and styling business. These leadership roles and unique environments offered real-time awareness in nervous system stress, physical wear and tear, relational complexity, and the great cost of living without embodied presence under pressure. Facing off with the imbalances of over-extending, absence of boundaries, dissociative patterns, and grasping onto control and hyper-vigilance as means to keep going opened my eyes to the felt sense of true alignment, strength, balance, resilience, safety, and ease in my body, mind, and spirit.‍ This became the work I felt passionate about moving toward, practicing throughout my life, and sharing with clients.

The collective experience of loss and the even-louder wake-up call to white-body supremacy within the rise of the Pandemic was the tipping point for my body and spirit. A paradigm shift was needed. And so began years of more consistent, more in-depth therapy followed by deepening my knowledge of mind-body connection from the physiological perspective and training inside a 500 hr. Pilates teacher training certification. Pilates is such a beautiful way to slow down, be with our awareness, and hop on the magic-school-bus ride to inner-connection.

Amongst several other certifications, I made a commitment to deep-dive into embodied transformation, somatics, trauma and resilience, somatic bodywork, and somatic change methodologies through the offerings of the Strozzi Institute. Within this skillful practice, I began to relate to my dedicated movement practices and those I’m in service to from a larger container of awareness and holding.

I am committed to the continuing education and practice of these two modalities for the sake of personal growth and building the ever-expanding container of embodiment in service to collective liberation.