About…
~Carl Jung
I am a dancer, a thinker and fellow human being. I have spent a lifetime learning how to live and perform in my body. I have studied, dance, various movement systems, anatomy, biomechanics, and pedagogy in the United States and abroad. My journey was not straight forward, I started as a pre med student before going into dance and comparative literature. I studied language and literature at the Sorbonne in Paris.
I studied dance at the Laban Center in London with Valerie Preston Dunlap there I learned the power of movement especially in the relationship between using space and quality of movement to acknowledge someone’s mood and psyche. There is a relationship. While living in London, I studied dance conditioning and Pilates with Alan Herdman, and Marie Jose Blom. From them I learned biomechanics and how to create programs to support individual needs.
While working with Marie Jose Blom in Southern California I was introduced to Juliu Horvath, creator of GYROTONIC® Expansion System. Juliu taught me how to get out of your mind and into your body and how the smallest details can accumulatively make a huge difference to your movement potential.
Imagery with Eric Franklin taught me how to show someone their potential and how to teach. I learned that teaching embodiment, the idea of feeling movement rather than parroting movement is a special technique. Together all these experiences gave me the colors in my crayon box to use as needed to guide someone to feel their movement potential and learn to move beyond their wildest dreams!
Learning how to live in my body and studying movement has always been my passion. It has lead me to years of investigation, travel, observation and practice.
I believe that movement isn’t something that you do, but it is your essence being revealed in a physical way. Becoming aware of how you use your body and move within it can reveal information about yourself that you may have never imagined.
I love to teach courses and write about movement in a way that connects to the individual and supports them to find their own path. Then they can continually discover things about themselves that surprise and delight them. The ultimate goal is to feel free in your body and love your life!