Transformative Pilates 1:1 Private Sessions
Move with Confidence
Move with Confidence
From pain and body confusion to dancing in your kitchen.
From lethargic and spinning to energized and unstoppable.
From embarrassed and hiding to bounding into the room and holding attention.
From depleted and resentful to rested, connected, and nourished.
From brain centered and focused to gut centered and clear eyed.
You’re doing the work.
Aligning with your values, aspiring to love in an unjust world.
And you know that your relationship to your body and movement is a part of that.
Maybe you’ve graduated from PT and you’re looking to integrate. Maybe you know your compensatory patterns are contributing to pain. Maybe you haven’t found the right approach, or you’re ready for a fresh take.
Welcome to Transformative Pilates. Here you will practice as the badass embodied physical presence that you are. You’ll spend time nurturing the nature inside, listening to spirit and acting boldly from it to create the world you believe in.
I am determined for your movement practice to meet you where you’re at, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Let’s do this.
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About Pilates
Pilates is an exercise modality. It is low impact, often weight bearing, and well suited for training postural support and integration. I teach Pilates sessions in-person using spring-based equipment and over zoom through supported mat work.
One of my favorite things about the lineage of this form is its emphasis on mindfulness. By focusing on what we move while we move it, we have a chance to inhabit our movement, increase our capacity for nuanced sensation, and feel more empowered moving through our daily lives.
The system is designed to offer increasing levels of novelty, complexity, and demand. Clients often report feeling improved postural strength, increased range of motion, more alert balance, and the ability to do the things they love without worrying about injury.
*an important note on scope: private sessions are a fantastic choice for those rehabilitating from injuries and surgeries, bone and spinal conditions including osteoporosis, and/or managing chronic pain. Pilates is not a substitute for medical care. It is important you are cleared by a doctor and physical therapist before endeavoring this integrated movement practice.
My Approach
I listen carefully to my clients' experiences and craft sessions that are meaning-full.
This is not about looking to fix or perfect or punish your body. This is about connecting with yourself, transforming stuck patterns, and building strength in supportive movement and postural patterns.
I approach this work from a therapeutic perspective, offering movement that is meaningful. I invite my clients to notice how they feel, and to track their progress through the lens of both physical skill as well as emotional and sensate experience.
I have a deep knowledge of functional and experiential anatomy, and I use this to help you both to move safely and to be able to feel your own structure in movement - which provides epic amounts of empowerment.
I have knowledge about how bodies move. And, it’s not just that knowledge that makes me a good teacher. It’s my ability to be with the human in front of me, to trust my own instinct to make space for yours, and to leverage my technical knowledge to inform the work of being human together.
My Story
I found Pilates after a traumatic neck injury resulted in debilitating chronic pain. It offered me, and my body back to myself.
I have spent years intentionally moving with my own trauma and stuck patterns. Over the last decade, I have been teaching Pilates while simultaneously studying functional anatomy, trauma, ritual, archetype, and creativity. I became enthralled with the ways I could see emotion and meaning-making impacting my Pilates clients' movement experiences. I wanted to pay attention to that. This is what led me to develop “Transformative Pilates.”
Pilates taught me that painful movement and emotional patterns do not have to be stuck forever.
They can be revealed, moved with, and transformed.
Dancing and healing throughout my healing process has taught me the vital impact of expressive, supportive patterns, which can be shored up, amplified and encouraged.
Sessions Include:
functional anatomy education
personal check ins and somatic/postural awareness skill building
Intentional and generous guidance through pilates exercises
sequences tailored to your specific needs and desires
challenging exercises to work at your growing edge
My Values:
movement not as punishment but as connection
there’s no such thing as a perfect body or correct posture
our stories live in our tissues
anatomy and biomechanics are helpful tools for empowerment and agency
mindfulness is a skill
mindfulness and noticing how we feel are important tools for empowerment, agency, and safety