About

My path to teaching 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 and creation through dance, and telling stories with choreography. In college I continued dancing and spent my time focusing 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 studied modern dance, performed, and continued telling stories through dance. I taught Muller technique to pre-professional and professional dancers. My choreography was shown internationally in Brazil and Switzerland, as well as in various locales in New York City.

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 for fitness training, 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, teaching 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 an 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. With Reactivation I have embarked on the unexpected path of energy healing. This supports and complements my desire to help others create health in their bodies and lives through a unique pathway.