Many of you have reached out to learn more about the work that I do: reiki & qigong, craniosacral therapy, path finding and teaching pilates--all of it about helping you to live fully, joyfully and healthily.
Reiki and Qigong are two types of energy work that I use together during sessions, depending on which techniques are more applicable at the time. At times, I will blend energy work into a CranioSacral session, which is light touch manual therapy and helps to melt away physical restrictions, pain and open up an ease of movement and being.
Path finding is my newest addition! Somewhere between life coaching and arts therapy, I teach you how to cultivate inspiration, guide you into personal growth and help you add richness and fulfillment to the life that you already have. It's much less about making drastic changes than about finding ways to weave in joy and passion into the life that you do have and moving from there. You have to grow yourself before you can grow your career, business or relationship and I help you to do that.
For more information, you can find me here or here. And please! drop me a line if you have questions.
Showing posts with label pilates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pilates. Show all posts
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I think that I keep coming back to this, but here it is again.
I started this blog when I was running a lot, thinking that it would be a good place to put down all the ideas I had while running but then I got sick, I got injured, I got sick, I didn't have time and each time I had to take a break from running, I also took a break from blogging. And often returned to running long before I returned to blogging again.
In the past nine year, when I hardly ran or blogged at all, something shifted and I began to understand that me, meditating was helping me while running. Me, doing pilates or training? Helping me to run. Me, writing and me, working and me, hanging out with friends is all a part of me, running as the running feeds the writing, readies me for meditation, makes me alert when I work. It is like, when I first started pilates a decade ago and I first began to really understand that if the wrist hurts, I should look at the alignment of the neck and that the ankle bone truly is connected to the hip bone only now I am understanding the holistic connection all aspects of my life feeding each other. As my understanding of this shifts, so has this blog. One, I am finally really excited about writing it because I know that I will discover things that are beneath the surface of my consciousness in my understanding of the body and healing and also, because what this blog is in my mind has shifted into an exploration of the interaction of the layers of physical and spiritual or energetic vitality. It sits at the intersection of all the work that I do: writing, pilates and reiki/qigong/craniosacral and I am really looking forward to understanding how they all feed each other.
Conveniently, this shift happened at the end of 2012 so I can commit to blogging at least once a week and feel like I have a fresh start to it. I am looking forward to 2013 in such a big way!
I started this blog when I was running a lot, thinking that it would be a good place to put down all the ideas I had while running but then I got sick, I got injured, I got sick, I didn't have time and each time I had to take a break from running, I also took a break from blogging. And often returned to running long before I returned to blogging again.
In the past nine year, when I hardly ran or blogged at all, something shifted and I began to understand that me, meditating was helping me while running. Me, doing pilates or training? Helping me to run. Me, writing and me, working and me, hanging out with friends is all a part of me, running as the running feeds the writing, readies me for meditation, makes me alert when I work. It is like, when I first started pilates a decade ago and I first began to really understand that if the wrist hurts, I should look at the alignment of the neck and that the ankle bone truly is connected to the hip bone only now I am understanding the holistic connection all aspects of my life feeding each other. As my understanding of this shifts, so has this blog. One, I am finally really excited about writing it because I know that I will discover things that are beneath the surface of my consciousness in my understanding of the body and healing and also, because what this blog is in my mind has shifted into an exploration of the interaction of the layers of physical and spiritual or energetic vitality. It sits at the intersection of all the work that I do: writing, pilates and reiki/qigong/craniosacral and I am really looking forward to understanding how they all feed each other.
Conveniently, this shift happened at the end of 2012 so I can commit to blogging at least once a week and feel like I have a fresh start to it. I am looking forward to 2013 in such a big way!
Saturday, January 5, 2013
the best book club ever!
We did it! We began our book club on movement and I am looking forward to taking my learning to a whole new level.
T. is a good friend of mine--she managed the first studio that I worked at in California and is still teaching pilates herself. We met up in the midst of the holidays and she brought up this idea of hers: to start a book club where we take the times to explore different movement modalities (like Alexander technique, Franklin Method, Feldenkris to name just a few), various healing techniques (Qi Nei Tsang, Ayurveda and Craniosacral, among others) and study anatomy in-depth. How much fun and how valuable!
I have done so much continuing ed since I started teaching pilates and personal training. I have taken four day human dissection labs at a chiropractic college, immersed myself in qigong for a year, spent weekends reviewing anatomy and physiology in an effort to understand chronic injuries and how to structure training sessions, attended pilates and mind-body conferences and, of course, taken countless pilates, yoga, capoeira, dance and gyro classes. From every class, I have learned so much about how to teach, about my own limits and places to push myself and about the body, health and healing but there is only so much that can be taught and learned in a week or weekend. And the idea of exploring on our own and getting deep into these topics is really exciting.
So we did it. T. and I met up today and went over our interests and what we want to learn to fold into the work that we do. Naturally, I am really interested in anything that will support my Craniosacral work right now and we decided to start with anatomy with a focus on the fascia. We'll be reading Anatomy Trains by Thomas Myers first.
T. is a good friend of mine--she managed the first studio that I worked at in California and is still teaching pilates herself. We met up in the midst of the holidays and she brought up this idea of hers: to start a book club where we take the times to explore different movement modalities (like Alexander technique, Franklin Method, Feldenkris to name just a few), various healing techniques (Qi Nei Tsang, Ayurveda and Craniosacral, among others) and study anatomy in-depth. How much fun and how valuable!
I have done so much continuing ed since I started teaching pilates and personal training. I have taken four day human dissection labs at a chiropractic college, immersed myself in qigong for a year, spent weekends reviewing anatomy and physiology in an effort to understand chronic injuries and how to structure training sessions, attended pilates and mind-body conferences and, of course, taken countless pilates, yoga, capoeira, dance and gyro classes. From every class, I have learned so much about how to teach, about my own limits and places to push myself and about the body, health and healing but there is only so much that can be taught and learned in a week or weekend. And the idea of exploring on our own and getting deep into these topics is really exciting.
So we did it. T. and I met up today and went over our interests and what we want to learn to fold into the work that we do. Naturally, I am really interested in anything that will support my Craniosacral work right now and we decided to start with anatomy with a focus on the fascia. We'll be reading Anatomy Trains by Thomas Myers first.
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