Most Feldenkrais® instructors came to the method for their own healing and transformation. Just as founder Moshé Feldenkrais undertook to rehabilitate himself, we sought a way forward out of pain, limitation or environmental challenges. I found the method during my musical career, as a way to address pain and injury. What I discovered was a new way to live.

I work with a broad range of clients and connect with them through many types of life challenges. Together we create new possibilities for well-being through Functional Integration® lessons and Awareness Through Movement® lessons.

My life as a musician formed a natural path to this method of re-education, and I am interested in the way the method builds creativity, confidence and freedom in everyday life. It is exciting to guide people through processes that not only restore them but transform them into pathfinders.

Learning in ATM® and Functional Integration® isn’t in the performance of a pattern alone, but in the way we go about exploring it. The way we travel through a lesson is as important as the biomechanics of the lesson itself.  When we approach learning in this way, the learning process accelerates and doesn’t get bogged down in ideas, thoughts and judgment. We can integrate and reorganize with skill not struggle, freeing ourselves into new functioning, feeling and ability. We surprise ourselves with how effortlessly we can change ourselves so often, that we come to expect surprise!

In that spirit, my approach to teaching is to listen for the “music” of a lesson as a key component of integration. Hearing and interpreting the music means going beyond the steps, the equations, the mechanics, the choreography, to incorporate a sense of something greater going on, something singing in the background. I think of this as the music of integration, of the organization of the self. Moving in a musical way means moving whole. This essential aspect of the Feldenkrais Method® is where the magic lies, beyond the notes.

I bring this and other ways to connect with my clients and their own rich backgrounds: Bachelor of Music (violin), Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, M.A. in Comparative Literature, SUNY, Certificate in film production, NYU Tisch, and certificate in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Austin DRC. I love to teach and started teaching and tutoring people in mathematics and music as a child. In my youth, I trained and rode horses competitively, usually horses with emotional issues or physical trauma. As a writer and composer, I am deeply engaged with the transformative power of composition and improvisation. 

In my practice today, I am privileged to witness people changing and discovering what they are truly capable of.