If you are looking for someone to “fix” you, I am not the right person for you.

On the other hand, we are well matched if:

You’re looking for more gentle and organic ways to help you heal yourself 

You don’t know how to connect with your body and know deep inside that the time has come

You’re comfortable with life as a process of personal evolution and growth 

If you’re an explorer of your unique inner truth.

For me, being truly alive is to grow love and learning in myself. The work I do has brought these beautiful gifts to me. 

(Image presenting a seminar at the Feldenkrais Guild of North America’s 2019 Annual conference…or maybe this goes on the Classes page)

I inform, inspire, and motivate people like you to move well for a lifetime.

I came to helping people to learn and heal through awareness and movement very early in my life. First as a creative movement teacher for preschoolers and as a dance improvisation teacher for adults. I loved how people’s movement held clues to how they felt about themselves. When their movement became more free, the increased joy in themselves was palpable.

This fascination with how movement develops (or how it often decreases as we grow older) and the effect of movement on physical, emotional, and mental health led me to study directly with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the founder of the method.

When I studied with Dr. Feldenkrais (1980- 1983), he believed that movement held all the keys. Toward the end of his life, he confided to one of my teachers that he might have been incorrect. There needed to be integration of emotional and mental needs as well. That has been my belief from the start. Your emotional body, mental body and energetic body will all receive my attention.

Your body is always communicating with you. When you listen, you will discover its wisdom. I make it pleasurable and as easy as possible to experience positive change. When you work with me you come away with a new way of thinking about how you can heal yourself.

My broad background provides you with many ways to communicate with your body to discover its wisdom.

I look forward to sharing my work with you and helping you find your unique path through gaining more body awareness. You may be amazed how this unusual approach can be so transformative.

In the early 1970’s, I began my career as a teacher of creative movement for preschoolers and as a dance improvisation teacher for adults. My fascination with how movement develops (or more accurately, how it often decreases as we grow older), the effect of movement on health, and the relationship between movement and self perception led me to study directly with Moshe Feldenkrais. 

Upon graduation from the Feldenkrais Training in 1983, I became a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and have maintained an ongoing practice of teaching Awareness Through Movement classes and offering private sessions since then.   At the Feldenkrais training, I met Harriet Goslins, the founder of Cortical Field Reeducation^®. We reconnected in 1997, when Harriet invited me to co-lead workshops at Esalen Institute, and subsequently to teach in Professional CFR Trainings. I taught Awareness Through Movement at the University of Utah for 18 years and have lead workshops in the United States and in Spain.

In 2010 I began to develop my own work by combining the Feldenkrais Method of pedagogy with core strength ideas from the Pilates Method. This work helps people connect to core strength very deeply. My exploration of this material was in response to my own severe back pain….which now is no longer problematic. The usual idea of exercise is to strengthen the outer crust and leave our deeper, primary resources out of awareness.  The ideas that I’ve developed around core strength engage the primary, intrinsic muscle system so that the secondary, gross motor muscles don’t over work. As a result of this exploration, I discovered a profound and unexpected effect which was as deeply beneficial as the pain relief. My increase in physical capacity and resilience brought me greater self confidence and even more compassion for others.  I’ve continued to expand and teach this material with fine results. It’s appropriate for anyone, however, I believe it to be essential for the vitality of seniors. 

My life has been a continuous study of aware movement, consciousness, and the effects of the movement of attention. In 2013, I became Russell Delman’s student in The Embodied Life Mentorship Program.  Russell’s work combines meditation, the Feldenkrais Method and embodied listening. It spurred the beginning of a regular mediation practice for me which has nourished my soul and deeply enriched both my personal and professional life.

Individual sessions and classes are available for you in my Salt Lake City studio as well as workshops and mentoring opportunities in the United States and Europe. I look forward to meeting you.