Strength, Grace & Mobility
Essentrics® incorporates the strengthening of ballet, the flow of Tai Chi and the science of physical therapy. An Essentrics workout helps tone and shape, as well as improve flexibility and relieve tension. The movements are large, slow and fluid. We need to move our joints…
While I’ve wobbled on and off the mat for 25 years, I never stopped practicing. You see, yoga is so much more than a endurance practice. It’s a blueprint for living. Every day I make an effort to “live my yoga.”
We sculpt our bodies by how we use them. Many of the “symptoms” of aging – stiffness, poor posture, reduced mobility and range of motion – are a connective tissue issue. Keeping our fascia supple and resilient is critical to helping our body remain healthy…
When we’re young, we don’t give our bodies a second thought. It’s partly why watching kids play makes us smile. It helps us remember that our bodies were designed to move freely.
Vibrant health is my passion and for thirty years I’ve helped people feel better in their mind and body. I’ve been a Thai yoga therapist, raw food chef, Yin Yoga instructor, organic gardener, and Pilates instructor. For fifteen years, I was a mindfulness-based, experiential psychotherapist. In 2022, I closed my private practice and returned to my first love: teaching movement.
I’ve written numerous articles on topics that have influenced me over the years. I hope you enjoy them.
Essentrics is eloquently designed to be safe across the lifespan. There’s no heavy impact. It’s a controlled movement – making it good for the heart and gentle on the joints. It builds muscle and strong bones without equipment. Excellent for athletes and aging adults alike. It’s not a replacement for your current favorite exercise or activity. It’s what you do to keep doing what you love.
Our muscles are encased in a web of tissue that weaves in and around our body called connective tissue. Like a silk stocking, it literally is what holds us together and gives our body shape.
In August, 1968, the country was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the race riots that followed. A brand new children’s show out of Pittsburgh, which had gone national the previous year, took a different approach.
I have fond childhood memories of going to the Angel Stadium with my dad. He loved baseball and his enthusiasm for anything was contagious. Swept in the memory of a simpler time, I checked the box with a “heck yeah” I’ll volunteer!
It’s easy to get caught up in the small, endless tasks of daily life. The ability to zero in and accomplish projects is both a human strength and weakness. On the one hand we get things done, while on the other we can turn ourselves…
Therapy is a unique profession in that one of its purposes is to help search for new meaning to old problems. Recently, I started playing with the idea of therapy as a practice toward personal wisdom. For some, the practice is more of cultivation while for others it’s more excavation. For the bulk of us, it’s somewhere in between.