I am a body educator.
I help people through hands on therapeutic methods and personalized movement therapy.

Every day I wake up and realize I am on a mission in my life...

...and it makes me so excited! I love my job as a massage therapist and movement educator. I am always seeking knowledge about the human body, human movement and how I can apply what I know to helping others to live and feel better in their bodies for a whole lifetime.

As Joseph Pilates famously stated “change happens through movement and movement heals”. Movement has been instrumental in my health, wellness and healing processes for as long as I can remember. Growing up whenever I felt sick or emotionally bad, I would walk or run at the beach or in the woods. I could never just sit still. I was restless. I know now that there are great benefits to stillness and meditation, but at the time I was turning to what felt good and what I thought worked for me.

In my daily work with clients this may mean movement lessons or hands on manual therapy that helps to develop keen body listening and awareness skills.

This process is all about embodiment and listening to the language of the body through movement and sense. I am a committed lifelong learner . Some of my education, mentorship and influence comes from the work of Dr. John Upledger, Jill Miller, Katy Bowman, Jules Mitchell, Anatomy Trains, Stott Pilates and classical Yoga with the Esther Vexler School. I will continue to adapt and refine what I teach based on my personal self study, current movement science and most of all my students.

I expect that I will continue to be shaken up by knowledge bombs from the yoga, science, health and fitness communities for many years to come. In the present moment, my core intention is to help people to develop keen body listening and awareness skills because these nurture and fortify self empowerment. When we tune into our body’s languages and add variety to our movement — we make positive change or better -- magic happens!

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Certifications, Licenses, Trainings & Memberships
Massage Therapy Practitioner (licensed in Texas, New York & Iowa)
Upledger Craniosacral Therapy CS1, CS2, SER1 (certification candidate pending)
Yoga TuneUp®
The Roll Model Method®
The Melt Method® (Hand & Foot Instructor)
Stott Pilates
Foot Reflexology
Certified Yoga Instructor 200hr
Somatic Yoga Instructor

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Low back and hip tension tamer Take an embodied peek under your skin and feel for any tension relationships between hips, low back, ribs and whole body interrelationships. Use a soft air filled ball like the #coregeous ball or a ball you may find in a barre class Place inflated ball at your low back area and lie down on the floor Allow yourself to get comfortable in this reclined position with deep abdominal thoracic breathing Begin to slowly walk your feet in one direction as you feel the skin of your low back wind up into the ball You may feel a pinched feeling or heat this is a sign that you are doing it correctly. The ball does not move Pain = stop doing this Once you have gone as far as you can pay attention to what sensations you feel. You may feel a lot of heat which is a sign that the fascia is moving well for you Continue to breathe and notice if any more movement is available to wind up and do that. Move a leg , an arm or your pelvis and notice what you feel Lots of breath here is the key to success Take a moment when you are finished to lie down and notice how your back feels

Somatic Massage on Soft Foam Roller Rotation of the middle and upper back is something our bodies do every day in daily life. If you love to walk or do dynamic sports like golf, tennis, running or even bowling - you need a nice smooth rotational capacity in your spine. if we lessen our daily movements we miss great opportunities for this movement to happen in the joints of the spine with resulting over time pain, stiffness and loss of range of motion. This can lead to a cycle of more pain, stiffness and on it goes…. This is a movement that is designed to FEEL GOOD in your body. The intention to to retrain the brain that this movement is safe and controllable. With this information the brain can reduce pain signals and tension holding patterns in the spine that limit your movement. The “crunch” you see is at about 50% exertion. Just enough to move with CONTROL on the flexion and extension phases of the movement. This movement is inspired by teachings from Hanna somatics, James Knight somatic yoga, the Melt Method and Yoga Tune Up. The foam roller I use is a soft foam roller like Melt Methods or OPTP but you can wrap your rloller in a yoga mat or blanket to soften it a bit. how its done: 1. place your spine on the foam roller at your middle back around your bra strap line 2. roll onto your left side so that your left gluteus muscle rests on the floor and your left rib cage below and behind the breast is on the roller 3. cradle your head in your hands to support your neck 4. inhale to swell your belly and your ribs 5. exhale and flex your spine and rotate slightly so that your left elbow is aiming for the right knee. remember 50% exertion here not your strongest crunch. your left foot stays on the ground for support. 6. if you desire to add complexity to this movement you can move your knee toward your elbow as you exhale and move it away as you inhale but its not necessary to reap the rewards of this exercise 7 the secret to success is slow smooth control in all phases of movement to flexion and extension 8 you should feel a gentle pull or spin of the skin and muscles along your ribs as you rotate on the rollers that's the juicy part ❤️❤️⭐️

Now available to rent on iTunes ! The Point a documentary about Maria Sharapova that Scott shot for directors / writers Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern Winters. Super excited to watch this 😊🎬📷!

Still unpacking from our move. Found this pile of memories 🌎

Kitchen happenings sunscreen + French onion soup #dowhatyoulove

The spine and its discs need movement to eat. The push, pull squish and twist we do through daily movements, exercise or yoga help to move and nourish our spine and its structures. This is one way I feed my spine and the joints that support it. Moving each segment as independently as possible with a #therapyball. This is not a #therapyballmassage but rather I am just using the ball as feedback to sense and control the descent of the ball against gravity as I curve down into #spinalflexion #yogatuneupballs

I know I'm tone deaf but this is funny This happens every day it's so funny i wish I could get the camera to capture his facial expression ! ❤️ I must nerd out on this post because I know vocalization is intimidating for people but there are a genuinely strong physiological reasons to vocalize / hum / chant / or ohm. 1. humming tones your vagus nerve (CN10)! Yes your nerves can get out of tone just like other body tissues i.e.: gluteal muscles. This is one nerve you don't want to wither in your body as it controls your stress response and allows your body to rest, heal renew and detox. It also reduces inflammation. Google this "vagus nerve" and see what you find. 2. Nitric Oxide is produced 16x greater upon exhalation during humming or vocalizations. What this benefits is profound - from antibacterial properties to allowing blood vessels to relax and expand. Google that too! xoxo #vagusnerve #toneyourvagus #polyvagaltheory #yogatuneup #breathandblissimmersion

#yogatuneup for my wheel pose or 1/4 urdhva dhanurasana . Helps me to be honest with coupling my shoulder and spine movement. I love to do this pose after a great shoulder and core warm up and #therapyball massage. It feels so liberating to allow this kind of extension into your upper back. Stand about 6-8 inches from a wall or pillar. bring one arm behind you palm flat on the wall. Use your other hand to guide the elbow toward your head to help support the shoulder joint as it moves into flexion. Maintain a core contraction to stabilize your spine as you step away slowly from the wall. The elbow can straighten as you explore the movement of the scapula down along your ribcage. If there is pain or discomfort in the lumbar spine or anywhere lessen the degree of your movements. What's special about this movement is it sets us up for success as we learn the capacity each shoulder blade has for movement independently ❤️

Things I've learned in the 5 1/2 months since I had surgery for my broken R tibia and fibula. I graduated from PT and started performance weight training in May. Is my rehab work complete and 100% functional? 🌟 Yes and no. 🌟 I can walk hike bend and move but can not yet do everything I used to be able to do ..... yet 🌟 I am on vacation now and able to walk barefoot in sand and uneven mountain terrain. the infinite variety of movements I can make barefoot in nature is further enhancing the strength and blind spots I missed in my gym training. 🌟my lesson TIME and CONSISTENTLY adding VARIETY to my movements exposes my body blind spots is helping me to recover. 🌟 Other Things I've learned : 🌟 PAIN: When a joint in the body is immobile or less mobile lymph or fluids accumulate and cause swelling. That buildup caused pain not only at the site of injury but in my whole body . For me it manifested as diminished energy and whole body overall soreness. 🌟 When I started mobilizing my joint the energy and overall body pain disappeared. 🌟This gives me new appreciation for how clients with low grade inflammation in their body or arthritis can feel and better improve my strategies for treatment. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Things to do today for pain or immobility: ✅Practice #abdominalthoracicbreathing. Strategic Breath work enhances vagal tone and reduces inflammation. ✅Mobilize with #yogatuneup #therapyball Massage to moves fluids and helps lymphatic drainage. ✅most important keep a Positive mindset & don't worry 😉 . This will pass and with work you can improve how you feel ❤️❤️ Photo by Bryan Butt @bryanbuttcheeks @sarahisgreatish

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Low back and hip tension tamer

Take an embodied peek under your skin and feel for any tension relationships between hips, low back, ribs and whole body interrelationships.

Use a soft air filled ball like the #coregeous ball or a ball you may find

Somatic Massage on Soft Foam Roller

Rotation of the middle and upper back is something our bodies do every day in daily life. If you love to walk or do dynamic sports like golf, tennis, running or even bowling - you need a nice smooth rotational c

The spine and its discs need movement to eat. The push, pull squish and twist we do through daily movements, exercise or yoga help to move and nourish our spine and its structures.
This is one way I feed my spine and the joints that support it. Movin

I know I'm tone deaf but this is funny
This happens every day it's so funny i wish I could get the camera to capture his facial expression ! ❤️
I must nerd out on this post because I know vocalization is intimidating for people but there are a genui

I am a body educator. I help people through hands on therapeutic methods and personalized movement therapy.

I am a body educator.
I help people through hands on therapeutic methods and personalized movement therapy.