About my work
I spent most of my life dealing with pain. Growing up as a dancer and singer, I was always in tune with my body, but I didn't know how to work with it. No matter how many classes I took, no matter the personal trainer, no matter my skill with the exercise I was always pushing through some sort of pain. After I had my child, all those years of pushing my body finally caught up with me and I realized that I needed and wanted a different path forward.
Since then I've completely reshaped how I work with myself both as a singer and a mover. The deeper I dig into anatomy, function, neuroscience, and somatics the more I realize we've got it all wrong! As women, so much of our time and energy is focused on activities that make us smaller and thinner, but the truth is quite the opposite:
expansion is what makes us truly strong.
Developing a new approach to breathing and core support has allowed me to ease pain, increase strength and build confidence in what my body can do. Simply put, working with how my body is intended to function has made me stronger from the inside out. Now I'm sharing this experience and expertise with women and singers who want to feel strong even during the most tender transitions of their lives: pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, chronic illness and injury. Because strength isn’t something that’s built in the gym - it starts on the inside.
My clients come to me for a range of reasons, but what brings me the most joy is seeing them light up when they realize the issues they’ve been having can often be solved with the simplest of fixes. Discovering what’s possible when you’re no longer held back by your body.
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Learn breathing techniques to support the spine and eliminate chronic back pain.
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Reprogram jaw muscles to relieve tension associated with TMJD and jaw surgery.
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Discover how knee and ankle issues can disappear with new walking patterns.
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Use neuroplasticity to transform the overwhelm of pregnancy/postpartum and perimenopause into potent opportunities for personal and professional development
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Guiding singers struggling with vocal changes, chronic pain, and anxiety/ptsd to create ease, consistency, and excitement in their performing.
I believe every body is a good body and with a little bit of re-education you can uncover the strength and freedom already inside of you. Using breathwork, Integrative Alexander Technique, DNS, functional movement, somatic and Yoga for Trauma practices, I guide you to connect with how your body is intended to function and how it feels to live with confidence, ease, and joy in a body that’s built for YOU.
Finding strength in unexpected places...
In 2019 my son was born and it was the beginning of a huge transition in my life, the kind of transition that most parents experience in one shape or another. Because caring for a small human changes us at so many levels: cellularly, physically, neurologically, psychologically and emotionally.
We are different people on the journey into parenthood.
Where others might see this as a detriment to their lives, I see this as a tremendous opportunity for us to harness the innate neuroplasticity of change to create a way of living that suits us for who we are NOW.
Since becoming a mother there are many things I've had to let go of, but one thing that's stayed true for me is my body. Learning how to work with my body softly, lovingly and in a way that is functionally appropriate has given me not only more strength, but less pain and greater resiliency throughout my life.
This work was truly tested in 2025 when I tore both my ACLs and had to have two subsequent surgeries to fix each knee. I can say now, with assuredness that while you may not have a choice in the body you're given, you always have a choice in how you treat it. And my recovery, while long and difficult, has given me perspective and gratitude for how willing the body can be when you start with love.
This work is an combination of my experience as a singer, performer and master breather, extensive work in The Alexander Technique, Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy, Dynamic Neural Stabilization, and a fair amount of Health & Wellness deprogramming. I have degrees from The Boston Conservatory of Music and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, certifications in the Integrative Alexander Technique (with Kate Conklin) and Yoga for Trauma, and 20+ years of functional movement, dance and experience working with physical therapists.
