From everything I’ve studied, taught and done to heal myself,
to helping thousands of women heal and change their bodies, I have created these programs so women everywhere can Learn, Feel, move and heal themselves to transform their bodies and minds to realize their fittest bodies most vital lives!
Think you can’t change your body?
Read my transformation below.
I have been an athlete for as long as I can remember.
In the Midwest, I grew up playing baseball, basketball, ice hockey and ran races with the kids in my neighborhood. I continued to play sports running track and cross country through high-school. In college I fell in love with the “fitness classes” at the Arizona State University Rec Center. There was my introduction to yoga, Pilates, Lotte Berk workouts, Nia, spin, kickboxing and more! I would go lift weights and then finish my gym time with a beloved fitness class!
I graduated ASU with a B.S in Human Development (the physical and psychological development of humans). Out of college, I had a job in Medical Device sales that paid my bills but on the weekends I fulfilled my passion to empower people through fitness and I taught spin classes. I also decided I wanted to challenge myself and ran my first marathon. After a few years in Arizona selling devices and teaching spin classes, I was offered a relocation to Boston to sell in the Harvard hospitals. In Boston, I found my husband, an Englishman who was leaving the company I was working for (hence the job opening) and starting his own business. After a few years, we married and had our first child. She was born 2 months early and daycare was not an option for her underdeveloped lungs. It was also tricky to have a nanny come to the house and put her at risk for infection. Serendipitously, at this same time, the company I was working for was undergoing a reorganization, my boss knew my situation at home and offered me the option to be laid off with a severance.
I took the severance and spent the next year attending a Power Pilates certification program and a nutrition program.
I was then able to go back to work fulfilling my passion to help strengthen and empower people through fitness. The Pilates certification course was intense. Full of anatomy and muscular function classes.
This started a fire in me.
I was hungry for more knowledge and information
about how to balance and strengthen the body to heal and to realize optimal functionality.
I did a barre training next and taught at Pure Barre, had another baby and then I created an alignment based barre class for the Sports Club LA (now Equinox) in Boston. I did a yoga training, taught yoga at SCLA Boston and then moved across the country to Los Angeles pregnant with my 3rd child.
Ultimately, I decided to do another yoga certification with Annie Carpenter and then taught yoga at Yoga Works and other studios here in Los Angeles.
Rewind a wee bit.
I felt smart, full of good studies and information and strong!
So why then after the birth of my 3rd child did I have my bladder hanging out of my vagina?
Sure I had pee’d my pants for years when I laughed too hard, sneezed or jumped on a trampoline, but that was totally normal right?!
Yes I had had debilitating back pain for years, but that was a “back issue” and not a pelvic floor dysfunction issue right?!
I will never forget the fateful day…
I went to the Dr. and asked if they could just “snip that bit of extra skin hanging out of my vagina”?
In my self-study and studies, I learned that a “kegel” is not just “stopping the flow of urine” and that you have to take a systemic/holistic approach to healing pelvic floor dysfunction. Posture, muscular balance through activation of sleepy muscles and inhibition of over-zealous muscles and breathing well is essential. I began course work with Dynamic Neuro Stabilization, the Postural Restoration Institute, the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute (because I think life experience and energetics plays a role) and I read the works of Polyvagal theory, Feldenkrais and continue to work regularly with an amazing coach, a Heller worker, a Craniosacral therapist and Acupuncturist.
From the lessons of my studies,
all of the fitness modalities I have taught over the years and from everything I have done to heal myself,
I first created the Pelvic Floor program and began to offer this information to women
through workshops and Personal Training. As time has gone on, I have continued to study and learn and am constantly offering new body and life changing programs and weekly body and mind transforming classes!