Body
Soma
The body is not a problem to be solved.
It is the first instrument of perception — the place where meaning arrives before language does. These practices are ways of returning to it.
For thirty years the barre was my primary instrument of perception. Long before I had language for what I was learning, the body was already organizing it — through sensation, rhythm, effort, and return.
These practices are not about the body as object. They are about the body as the first place where meaning lives.
Whether you are moving, resting, or stretching — you are returning to the same ground. The Soma practice offers three pathways into it.
The Practice
Three pathways into the same ground
Move
Soma Flow
I want to move better.
Movement intelligence for dancers and everyday life. Private sessions in awareness, strength, mobility, coordination, and presence.
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Soma Still
I need to slow down and reset.
Reiki and nervous system restoration. A gentle, hands-on practice that invites the body into deep rest, relaxation, and renewal.
Explore Soma Still →Restore
Soma Restore
I feel stiff and tight.
Assisted mobility and guided movement. Working with the body’s natural mechanics — relaxation, breath, and sustainable range of motion.
Explore Soma Restore →Move · Group
Group Classes
I want to move with others.
Weekly Soma Flow group classes — movement intelligence in a shared practice setting. Drop-in welcome.
See the Schedule ↗Soma Learn
Workshops & Courses
I want to study the practice.
Recorded courses and live workshops on movement, somatic practice, and the literacies — coming soon.
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Embodied Education
Movement as a way of knowing.
I came to this work through dance, which taught me how a body learns, and developmental psychology, which helped me understand why that learning matters.
Whether I’m teaching adults to rediscover mobility and ease, inviting young children to move through a story, or working with dancers to develop expressive and technical capacity, the intention is the same.
Movement is not simply something we perform. It is one of the ways we come to know ourselves and the world.
My embodied education work includes Soma Flow classes, Storybook Movement, Ballet Labs, and developmental movement curriculum for children and adults.
For Dancers & Dance Educators
My work in dance extends beyond movement classes into ballet pedagogy, technical development, pointe shoe fitting, and embodied education.
Through Embodied Threads, I explore how dancers develop perception, coordination, musicality, expression, and technical understanding—not simply how they reproduce movement.
Explore Embodied Threads → Explore Embodied Education → View My Ballet Productions ↗
Go Deeper
The inquiry behind the practice
The Research
Soma Research
Practice as the origin of inquiry — the developmental framework, the research questions, Ballet Lab, and the writing that emerges from thirty years of working with bodies in motion.
Explore Soma Research →The Curriculum
Embodied Threads
Movement as a way of knowing — the children’s curriculum, Ballet Lab, Soma Flow for adults, and the developmental essays. The educational framework that grew from the practice.
Explore Embodied Threads →The Soma practice is the embodied expression of the same inquiry that lives in the theoretical work. The body is not separate from the framework — it is where the framework began.
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