Where does the work we do stem from?
Life experience. Book learning is great- I have practiced sutures on cadavers- reality is that a lifetime of movement and exposure to movement of different sorts has been the teacher. The need to understand my own body, to control my own body, to be able to communicate effectively has been the drive. Need to fix myself, when pain came. Need to understand how to work on myself, so that I not be at the mercy of depending on anything or anyone that may be taken away.
I earned my BA Biology from SFSU, played/coached soccer for twenty years, regularly played parkour for a few years in my twenties, have been actively training the Indonesian martial art silat for over a decade and am currently taking Polynesian dance classes.
Bodies have been a lifelong interest. I was raised in the home that people would bring lost and broken animals to. I managed to apprentice myself to a veterinarian throughout middle school, had the luck to live and work on an organic farm in Kansas during slaughter season, and had the joy of apprenticing myself to a horse owner/trainer for six years in my twenties. These experiences have given me a high sensitivity regarding balance of the body as well as related issues: fear and pain and language barriers regardless of species.
Following the golden rule, my goal with each body that I come to work with is to give a sense of safety while being vulnerable. I believe in learning, growing, accepting that there is room for change. Holding ourselves in a state of positive headspace and heartspace while doing so is the way that we will learn, is the scene within which we will grow. This is the mindset that we will work within: providing positive terminology and ample patience for ourselves as we accept our potential for improved health and wellbeing.
Breathe. Play. Be. 