“Pilates is complete coordination of body, mind and spirit.” ~ Joseph Pilates
I found my love of movement at a young age when I started dancing. This was also my first connection to movement as emotional healing.
My mother was advised to put me in dance to deal with sexual abuse I sustained at a young age. As I grew, the passion grew with me into adulthood; I never had perfect form, then I injured my knee at 18 and assumed movement was not my future. That is, until I found Pilates.
Only a few years after the injury I started to work with Erin Wetzel, of Core Arts Pilates, and found the physical healing that could be in movement. I continued to work with Erin through my first pregnancy, resulting in a 4 hour natural delivery of surprise twins (but that story is for another time) and our work continued in my early postpartum months; which I am convinced (after three other pregnancies and births) would have been much more difficult without Pilates.
After my second birth experience I noticed the difference Pilates had made in my experience, and I was inspired to take the steps to become a Pilates instructor and signed up for training as soon as I could. I found Melissa Francis of Intelligent Exercise, and have been going through the Balanced Body trainings since 2013. In that time I have gained a lot of life experiences that have shown me how helpful the presence of movement can be.
My passion work is with women transitioning through motherhood and finding the beauty in their transformed body after baby arrives. I have been studying the work of Carolyne Anthony, to expand my understanding of women’s body function and how to effectively assist women in their birth preparation and recovery through movement.