My background

I enjoy supporting people to become autonomous in supporting their own healthcare while living in community.  I have trained extensively with professional athletes and non professional movers and I feel confident supporting both audiences to embody and heal.  I grew up around professional athletes.  I trained with them in a playful natural way as they sought to interact with me and other performers' kids living in close proximity while traveling.  When I started school I moved to live close to a big park in my home town and played rhythm based, coordination and sound based games daily for hours on end after school. The two experiences deeply mark my experiences in life. 

My parents encouraged my academic development and I won scholarships to complete academic degrees in the humanities.  I developed strong analytical and research skills but my childhood learning and play experience deeply defined my connection to embodiment and movement. 

As an adult I was active and lived close to nature until I moved to the UK where I fell into a deep hole of stress not used to overindustrialized, crowded spaces with little sunshine on my skin, lack of community and high levels of financial responsibility. This led to chronic pain and mental health issues with loss of motivation, loss of positive outlook and confusion. 

Physical therapist within the medical profession were absolutely useless in helping me regain confidence in my body and heal my chornic hip pain.  Bodywork sessions were helpful but the effect never lasted.  Yoga though relaxing only enhanced my hyperflexibility and oversensistized my nervous system. Learning to rebalance and ground was key. 

After serveral trips to India where I gained a yoga teaching diploma which was more oriented towards traditional energetic and ritualistic practises I returned to London and started studying functional anatomy with leading international clinical and movement specialists.  I started discovering contemporary somatic approaches to bodywork, re established a dance practise and eventually fell in with a community of professional somatic flavored contemporary dance artists and movement trainers who had themselves healed injuries and chronic pain issues. 

I began training daily on dance floors with experienced somatic movers and felt absolute spell bound by the somatic approach.  A bit too spell bound at times addicted until I learned to regulate my own movement pracitse after moving to Brussels and training certifying as a Melt Method neuro fascial instructor during the pandemic.  

I am forever greatful to my grandmother who taught me about connection and bonding, the neurological basis of developing posture and movement patters in a human.  And to my first yoga teacher who taught me skills of being a student and attuning. 

Through my life I've experienced various communities where I've interacted and learned through movement , from the showgirls who first drew me into their fold to do their daily practise on the benches around circus stages, waking up my little brain with sensations of the blood pulsing through my feet after contemporary dance practise to my first yoga teacher Swami Shruti Gyana (Anna Pavlova) who gave me such a fantastic grounding to understand teacher student relationships and the essence of yoga for connection, cleaning ;) and transformation to dance floors where I discovered the power of play, agency and improvisation as well as the beautiful spaces in Thailand where I first experienced more focused approaches to meditation. 

Movement and sensation remain my favorite forms of connection though I have now become more confident in sound and rhythm based approaches which are essential for stimulating fascia.