Your Body is an Expression of Who You Are!
My mission it to help you get your body out of pain & strain and live with its full potential. With the education of how natural, fluid movement works and self-healing tools, we, as a team, will flush out the concerns, embrace the desires and create a path to maintain the new you!
I aspire to give the power & ownership of your own body…BACK TO YOU!!
You and only you live in your body.
Grounded in Science… Expressed in Spirit
Ever since I can remember I could see, what I called as a child, “black spots” on people. When I got a little older, I would touch someone where I saw a “black spot” and ask, “Does it hurt here?” The response 99½% of the time was, “Yeah, it does! How did you know? I didn’t even know it hurt there until you touched it.” I could only reply, “I don’t know, I just saw a black spot.” As an adult I have come to understand that those spots are places of held energy.
Even though I had an innate ability to see discomfort, when I grew up I wanted to understand, in real knowledge, WHY the pain was there. So I began my journey to the education I now have.
I got started because I had 3 daughters seriously studying ballet..and their bodies needed assistance.
We went to a chiropractor and then to an osteopath. After responding to my many ongoing questions, the osteopath suggested that I should take up the study of the body and become a massage therapist. So it began…and developed far beyond massage therapy.
All of my studies brought me to develop Body Unity Systems. Not just for my daughters, but also because I care about people enjoying their life experience in their bodies.
Education & Certifications
Education
- 1992 CMT/ Swedish, Sports Reflexology/Aromatherapy
- 1997 Pilates Teacher w/ Marie-Jose Blom/Certified
- 2004-2007 Franklin Method Level III graduate/Certified
- 2005-2006 Structural Integration KMI/ Certified
- 2009 Fibromyalgia Treatments/Certified
- 2011 Hydrotherapy for joint replacements, stroke, MS-at JCC
- 2013 Parkinson’s Treatment/certified
- 2015 Osteopathy Techniques with Ron Murray/Pelvis, Thorax, Cranial
- 2016 Neurofascial Release w/Erik Dalton
- 2017 Eric Franklin’s Fascia Course
- 2018 Eric Franklin Advanced Course in NYC
- 2021 Dissection of to the bone/leg,hip..arm/shoulder w/ Tom Myers&Todd Garcia
- 2021 3 Day course.. Training the Fascia of the Pelvic Floor Eric Franklin
- 2021 Happy Face, Fascia and floor of the jaw, Eric Franklin2021 Dissection of the cranium/brain/dura of spine with Tom Myers and Todd Garcia
- 2021 Fit Feet with Eric Franklin
- 2021 Eye and inner ear dissection with Tom Myers & Todd Garcia
- 2021 Brain and spinal cord dissection with Tom Myers & Todd Garcia
Workshops Taught:
YMCA Strong and Supple Shoulders
- MELT Intro workshop
MARIN BALLET
- Summer Student Program/6 wks/Pilates&Franklin Method
JCC
- Happy Knees
- Stable and Flexible Feet for Better Balance
3 Series: - Dynamic Pelvis & Hip Joints
- Hardworking Knee
- Flexible Shoulder & Rotator Cuff Stability
- Intro to MELT
- Feet, Knees, Hip Bone Rhythms and Muscle Energy for improved hiking and stairs-going up and down.
- Delay the Disease, Parkinson’s Workshop
- Therapy for Knee Pain and Disfunction
BERKELEY BALLET THEATRE- for Teachers & Adult Students
- Flexible and Strong Feet
- Neck and Shoulders-Heart and Lungs
- 2 Series Supple Spine
- Breath Into Movement, understanding how the breath works
- Dynamic Pelvis
- 3 years teaching Summer Students /Franklin Method
PILATES STUDIO Princeville, Kauai
- MELT Foot and Hand Workshop
BODY UNITY STUDIO
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- Franklin Method, various topics
- MELT intro classes, balls and rollers
- Franklin Method, balls and Bands
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Z’Move classes, a blend of movement modalities
- Argentine Tango, Reading your partner non-verbally