For years before I found The Feldenkrais Method® (we call it "Feldy" for short) I studied yoga and tai chi with great passion, from the time I was a young dancer in my teens. For awhile yoga truly made my body feel great. I loved it and dove in deeply But over years of intensive study and practice, I began having terrible back pain. In my enthusiasm to “give it my all," I created even more lax ligaments in my already very flexible body. It led to unstable sacroiliac joints and serious pain.

In spring of 2003, during a 2-month solo silent meditation retreat at a cabin in the mountains of Crestone, Colorado, I realized that — even after several solitary weeks with no phone, no electricity and no access to the outside world — the one activity where I was most “in my head” was on my yoga mat. WTF? I was shocked. It sounded something like this: “Ground the outer edge of your back heel ... Rotate your thigh ...Draw your shoulder blades down ... Blah ... blah ... blah.”

Even though the voice was quite eloquent and "knowledgeable" and was certainly intending to be helpful, there was no denying I was in my head bossing my body around. Yikes! What the hell?!

This was not yoga as union. This was a bossy, thinking-mind directing a body like a workhorse. Or a race horse. Or a yoga horse. Body-mind split. Mind bossing body. Not how I wanted to live. Or teach. I'm grateful for the sacred silent retreat environment as I think I may never have noticed this in my everyday urban life.

I spent a lot of time in deep confusion about how to process this realization — not only for myself but with great concern for what I was teaching my students as a full-time yoga teacher.

I soon discovered an incredible book titled Mindful Spontaneity: A Return to Natural Movement. It profoundly helped me to understand how to work with my body and movement without my thinking-mind acting as boss.

I began doing movements "as myself" instead of "to myself." 

Big difference.

Through lots of practice and experimentation, I confirmed this organic, internally-informed, brilliant way of being embodied. I realized that there is indeed a deep body wisdom that I could access and unfold without being in my head. Moving and inhabiting my body in this respectful, non-dual, listening way also healed my back pain. It was profound not only in how much it helped my back, but in how deeply it helped me integrate my meditation and awareness practice into my everyday life.

I was so hugely inspired that I signed up for a 4-year professional Feldenkrais training in 2004. That education changed my life, my practice and my teaching. Integrating this way of being not only healed my back and SI joints, it led to a deeper experience of wholeness and integration than I'd ever experienced. It also led to a much freer life. Hooray!

Today one of my passions is helping others discover their own embodied wisdom. Doing so can not only heal aches and pains but can restore a deep sense of inner trust and integration which many of my clients haven’t experienced since childhood. It seems simple, but it goes very deep. I also love the way embodied practice helps to integrate mindfulness into everyday life so much more intimately and easily than mostly mental practice.

Can you imagine discovering a deep source of inner wisdom that is not in your head?! It’s there. Fully intact. Often ignored for a looooong time.

I love helping adults who are on a path of awakening to recover and integrate their embodied wisdom.

• My clients feel so much better in their bodies and heal long-standing aches and pains.
• They learn to move with ease and gracefulness, eliminating the causes of wear and tear on their joints.
• They find unconditional support in their relationship with the earth externally and within their own bones internally. Living with unconditional support is profound.
• They rediscover wholeness in an undeniable way.
• They become empowered learners who know how to work with themselves on their own. (I LOVE THIS!!! I believe in teaching people how to fish rather than giving them a fish.)

I believe my work is most valuable when it empowers people to learn and continuously grow and improve for the rest of their lives.

• They reconnect with a sense of trust in themselves and their inner wisdom, which is much deeper and wiser than the wisdom that lives only“in their heads.”
• They soon discover that they’re much much freer than they formerly believed, not only in their movements but in all areas of their lives.
• They discover that their limits (you name it) are usually self-imposed and can be gently dissolved, without turning themselves into a "self-improvement project." (Thank goodness.)
• They recover their own inner authority and embody a sense of playful dignity - no longer always turning outside themselves for advice or expertise, but learning how to access the knowing within.
• They unwind the infrastructure of their “historical selves” as body tensions, old beliefs, and life-depleting-behaviors.
• They begin to courageously give their unique gifts to the world.
• They find increasing freedom, joy, fulfillment and delight in their lives.
• They blossom!
• How could I not adore my work?!?

I began studying yoga in 1989 and was first asked to teach in 1995 at Red Lotus School of Movement I helped found one of Salt Lake's early yoga studios, Soma Yoga Studio, in 1999. I’ve studied with incredibly skilled, traditionally trained innovators in the Yoga tradition, including my faves: Donna Farhi  and Gary Kraftsow.

I began my studies in Tai Chi in 1992. I'm grateful to have studied Tai Chi and been certified to teach with Stephen Paul and Sifu Jerry Gardner.

I've had the delight and privilege of teaching students and teachers in both of these beautiful traditions.

I’ve practiced Feldenkrais professionally since 2005.

Some of my favorite teachers have been Yvan Joly, Diana Razumny, Alan Questel, Elizabeth Beringer, Dennis Leri, Russell Delman, Ruthy Alon, Mia Segal, Carl Ginsburg, and many more.

In 2014, I completed a 3-year Embodied Life Mentorship Program with Russell Delman. It’s been the most amazing training I’ve ever done, integrating Feldenkrais-based movement lessons, embodied listening and inner inquiry, Zen-based sitting meditation, and neurologically-based attentional practices that work like magic to rewire your brain for the better. It rocks.