I grew up fascinated by the body. As a kid I was drawn to movement, to strength, to the question of what the human body was truly capable of. I started dancing young, and by my early teens I was in serious pain. My knees hurt so badly that everyday normal tasks like climbing stairs and bending down to tie my shoes became a challenge. The adults around me called it growing pains and moved on. I didn’t accept that.

What followed was decades of figuring things out the hard way. I danced professionally through the kinds of injuries that end careers, and I saw every kind of practitioner along the way. Sometimes they really helped. But the answers I needed were rarely evident in the programs I was given. So I went deeper on my own. I rebuilt my shoulders from the inside out. I found new ways of standing, of distributing weight and moving that erased years of chronic pain.

Through all of it, I never stopped dancing. I performed for years with the Limón Dance Company and others, started my own company in 2009, and still choreograph and perform today. That career gave me something no certification could: decades of living inside a high-performance body, learning to listen to it, argue with it, and ultimately understand it at a level that changed everything.

That's what I bring to clients. I can feel what they're describing when something hurts. I can see in how they move what's holding them back. And I know from experience that the standard answer is rarely the whole answer. Clients tell me what matters most isn't the list of credentials I hold. It's that I actually see them. I meet them exactly where they are.