Mastery Method Certified Coach (completion Dec 2025)

This life coach training program is deeply resonant, evolving my work and expanding my somatic practice as a Feldenkrais Practitioner. It integrates what we discover through movement into all of lived experience—working at five levels: somatic, emotional, mental, behavioral, and unconscious.

What this certification brings into our work together:

• Lasting transformation, not quick fixes — using a trauma-informed framework that helps you shift at the deepest level, so change isn’t just what you do, but who you become.

• Whole-self alignment — you’ll learn to bring your thoughts, emotions, actions, and body into harmony, so your choices reflect your truest self.

• Clarity and confidence in your purpose — with support to show up fully in the world, creating from presence and integrity rather than pressure or self-doubt.

Accomplishment Coaching (2008)

I enrolled in my first life coaching training program halfway through my four-year Feldenkrais training — and since then, I’ve been weaving coaching + movement to support clients in creating meaningful, lasting change.

Rooted in ontological coaching, this work focuses first on being—on who you are today, who you want to become—and using that foundation to guide action and transformation. We look at what changes inside so that what you do outside arises from aligned power and authenticity.

What clients often experience:

• A shift in identity: not just achieving goals, but becoming the person who naturally lives and embodies those goals.

• Clarity in action: once the “who” is seen, what you do becomes more aligned, more potent — because it grows from a place of integrity rather than pressure.

• Ripples across life: shifts are not only in one part (career, body, habits) but across your relationships, mindset, energy, work, and how you show up daily.

Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (2010)

I've studied the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of The Feldenkrais Method®, for over a decade, completing a 4-year intensive Professional Feldenkrais Teacher Training Program®. I have a private practice in Troy, NY, and teach people worldwide through my online studio. Dr. Feldenkrais's principles—neuroplastic healing, working with the whole person, and the art of Awareness Through Movement—are a BIG part of my online teachings, in-person sessions, and my own movement practices.

What this work brings into our time together:

• Embodied awareness: learning to sense what you do not habitually notice, so that small shifts ripple into bigger ease and alignment.

• Gentle neuroplastic rewiring: offering the nervous system new pathways for movement, pain relief, decoupling emotions & beliefs, transforming the subconscious, and more agency in your body.

• Somatic resilience: cultivating balance—between effort & rest, between mobility & stability—that supports aging well, emotional flow, and strength.

Elemental Breathwork (2023)

In 2023, I dove into Elemental Breathwork—this work opened doors inside of me, showing me that breath is more than a technique. Each session is a journey, tapping into our biology and the potency of the mind to transform subconscious beliefs and release held tensions. There are two forms I practice and integrate: one anchored in the parasympathetic nervous system, creating safety, support, and deep rest; the other more dynamic—cycling through sympathetic and parasympathetic activation to gradually expand biological capacity and deepen emotional embodiment.

What Elemental Breathwork gifts us:

• Safety + transformation together: the parasympathetic-rooted work helps you settle, feel grounded, witnessed—preparing the nervous system to explore deeper layers.

• Edge & expansion: as we move through cycles of activation & release, there is space for healing stuck patterns, accessing resilience, and growing what we once saw as impossible.

• Integration of mind, body, and belief: this isn't just breath—it is where hidden stories, emotions, and beliefs come alive, are seen, and are invited into healing so that your whole self comes home.

Two Health Coach trainings that shape how I support women in tending to their bodies, nourishing what truly sustains them, and creating health that touches every aspect of life.

Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (2018)

I invested deeply in the principles of Functional Medicine, nutrition, mind-body medicine, and positive psychology coaching. What I love most is how this approach weaves beautifully with my Feldenkrais practice and the BioPsychoSocial model for addressing pain. The academy itself was founded in collaboration with the Institute for Functional Medicine—bringing a truly integrative lens to healing and transformation.

Key principles I carry forward from FMCA:

• Root-cause approach: Health isn’t just about symptoms—it’s about understanding the whole ecosystem of diet, environment, and life history.

• Mind-body integration: Sustainable change happens when nutrition, lifestyle, and positive psychology align with how we think, feel, and move.

• Collaborative healing: Coaching is most powerful when it works alongside practitioners, empowering clients to take an active role in their well-being.

Institute for Integrative Nutrition (2017)

Before my FMCA training, I became certified with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. So yes—I’m a proud double card-carrying health coach. At IIN, I learned the core principles of:

• Bio-individuality — honoring that each person’s health needs are unique

• Primary Food — recognizing that nourishment extends far beyond the plate

• Multidimensional Health — understanding that relationships, career, social life, finances, and environment are all integral to well-being

Bachelor of Arts in Kinesiology, CU Boulder (2005)

I came to academics a little later than most, after first studying and practicing massage therapy. Eventually, I traded my massage table for a deeper dive into science—earning a degree in Kinesiology with a special emphasis in Psychology & Neuroscience.

During my time at CU Boulder, I explored courses in Biomechanics, Brain & Behavior, Sensory-Motor Neuroscience, and Mind-Body Medicine. This foundation in whole-body function and human health has been instrumental in shaping my professional path—bridging movement, science, and healing into everything I do today.

I have maintained a personal meditation practice for over 30 years. This lifelong commitment to personal practice is part of my vow to end suffering. It informs all of my work—guiding how I teach breath, movement, and embodiment with presence, patience, and awareness. Meditation has deepened my understanding and lived experience of the nervous system, emotional regulation, and the mind-body connection. It allows me to hold space and meet clients with compassion and understanding.

• Purpose Guide Discovery via Purpose guides Institute (2024)

• Power of Embodied Transformation: (2022)

• Chronic Pain Rehabilitation via the Retrain Pain Foundation (2018)

• Sounder Sleep System with Michael Krugman (2017)

• Child’Space Training (2014)

• Mommy and Baby Yoga, Itsy Bitsy Yoga (2006)

• Certified Prenatal Yoga Instructor, Janice Clarfield (2006)

• Certified Personal Trainer, NASM (2005)

• 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification (2004)

• Labor Assistant (Doula) Training, ALACE (2003)

• Core Mat I & II Pilates Certification (2001)

• Certified Personal Trainer, ACE (2000)