About

My path to coaching holistic integrative fitness began with an active lifestyle in junior high and high school through my participation in competitive sports, followed by a discovery of the joy of movement through dance, and the creation and telling of stories with choreography. In college I continued dancing and focused on my extracurricular dance and choreography related activities. After receiving a BA from the University of Vermont, I moved to New York City. In the city I taught Muller technique to pre-professional and professional dancers and continued performing and telling stories through dance. Through the dance world I was introduced to personal fitness training.

Practice Philosophy: to meet clients at their personal level of fitness and guide them to a stronger, more balanced, and flexible body.

In 1995 I was certified as a personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise (ACE). I became as passionate in teaching alignment, balance, and effective techniques for strength conditioning to my clients as I was in teaching dance to dancers. Over the years, the stress of dancing took a toll on my body and began to limit my ability to move with comfort and ease. I discovered yoga and became a certified yoga teacher receiving my first training from Integral Yoga Institute in 2003, followed by an advanced certification from Om Yoga in 2004. Through yoga I learned meditation and breathing techniques that infuse my personal training sessions. However, my body continued to ache and to be limited in its movement.

Through my continuing education studies, I met Andy Langberg, the founder and developer of Reactivation, and I discovered the benefits of an energetic “tune-up” for my body. Now that my body could move through its full range of motion again, I had a couple of children (check out the entries in my blog prior to 2015), continued personal training, taught yoga, and developed parent and child dance fitness classes. I took undergraduate and graduate level courses in nutrition and exercise science at Brooklyn College and obtained my ACE Health Coach certification in 2007. A few years later, after another injury, I reacquainted myself with Reactivation. The opportunity arose to study Reactivation and I became a Level 1 Reactivation Specialist in April 2014, followed by a Level 2 Reactivation Specialist in June of 2014. Now as a Level 3 Reactivation Specialist (March 2017), I enjoy the process of energetically “tuning up” clients and seeing how these “tune-ups” can enable greater facility of movement in yoga poses, sports, and can create a general sense of well-being in activities daily life all while allowing the body to cope with stress more efficiently. With Reactivation I embarked on the unexpected path of energy healing. This allows me to help others create health in their bodies and lives through a unique pathway.