Saved by somatic healing

I started dancing at age 6 and quickly fell in love with movement as a way to express my feelings. By age 16, I was dancing professionally and ignoring chronic pain to perform. When my body finally gave out, my doctors told me I’d never dance again; I was forced to rebuild my body and life from the ground up. Through my own psychotherapy work and somatic healing, I experienced the importance of acknowledging physiological responses (The Body Keeps the Score, anyone?) and I learned to move in ways that supported my entire wellbeing. 

When I moved to Austin in 2010, I made it my mission to challenge the deprecating standards of the dance and fitness communities. I became passionate about creating judgement-free spaces for people to exist in their bodies and experience movement without expectation. When I shifted into behavioral coaching and working with more broad populations, I realized we all had the same thing in common: we were leaving our bodies out of the conversation. I aimed to merge my backgrounds in dance and psychology and provide a somatic approach to healing and growth. Through this work, I’m inspired to support people with a trauma-informed and integrated approach to taking care of our minds and our bodies.