Time has taught me ~ the body, mind and spirit work together.

For all these years, I could not separate my work in movement and love of understanding the body. Music, color, tones and movement are my teachers in the journey to discover - uncover and understand the boy, the mind and the Spirit in life!

My lifetime work has been - a blending of coming to know more and more about body and mind and spirit and an expression of being and becoming -in solitude or performance os simply walking into a room. I feel time has been my best teacher- it has given me more and more perspectives and taught me again, and again - not to do but to discover continually.

My work in dance has taught me about movement and expression of life; in music I have learned about resonance and vibration, form and connection; the colors in visual arts have penetrated to teach me and challenge me to learn more about wavelengths and sciences- new and old - and this is what I bring from and to my art and love of the body, our minds and Spirit.

My work is to inspire and integrate all the aspects of you - with integrity and deep honesty so that no one can take your true journeying life from you. I work in dance and movement - in the arts and in the therapeutics that have taught me profound respect. I have seen how how very easy it is to destroy the body, warp the mind and abolish spirit…

As a dancer, teacher, choreographer ~I am certified in Ballet: ABT National Training Curriculum, Cecchetti, Vaganova; RAD; Bournonville (Royal Danish); In Modern: Horton, Cunningham and Limon Technique; Contemporary; Release, Body Stories, Form & Expression.

As a therapist ~ I have been licensed and certified since 1988 with a Masters degree in Dance/Dance in Education and Psychology.

Come dance with me - play, reach, fall and soar! Come work with me for your lifetime - in Craniosacral Therapy; Nutrition Counseling, Therapeutic Exercises; Massage for Circulation & Lymphatic, Neuromuscular -Therapy from Pre-perinatal through illness and end stages .

Overtime, I have discovered the magnificence, resilience, transformance of the body, mind and spirit! My work is called Embodied Awareness©.

Embodied Awareness© is not an ideal. It is based in years of study; continual research and exploration in sound physiological and psychological principals. It is simply an approach to personal understanding for each to know how we move and why we do not move easily: how to care for yourSelf. each of uses unique! Your body is your Book of Life. It has and continues to record everything about YOU! It informs you - in living and moving. It is the job of your muscles to moves your skeleton - but muscles are so much more! Discover your muscles - fascial lines, mechanical links; how muscles work with and through each other to move, effecting and reflecting organs and systems on your body. You can target illness and rehab injuries with broadened information. In movement, you learn to recruit small, implicit muscles and support for more and more advanced movement, expression and artistry - be it  ballet technique, contemporary ballet, contemporary dance, modern dance, and even hip hop and more. As you become more aware of your body - you can move for your health - physically, mentally and emotionally as you own your journey in through life. It increases awareness of all of our senses for greater perspectives not only in the arts but through the arts because we simply become more aware and open - more vital - alive - to move through life. We can better understand each other - our environment, patterns and the mathematics of life … so much to discover in our movement through life.

Embodied Awareness© begins with coming to know our bodies - ourselves. It opens us up to continual discovery!

In body - movement - EA for Technique/BRIAHWork with both parallel and rotated positions and movement patterns, serves as an anatomical base and refining, developing and understanding how your body moves. Yes … it is repetitive and directed ~ so that movement is can be discovered, then refined, able to be expand and be explored. Movement does express emotion, function, memory and structure. It CAN be healthy and a magical way of discovering yourSelf! 

I believe we can take care of the body, excite and open the mind and connect with our spirit! I will ask you a few questions…

• Did you know:

  • How are YOU made?

  • What is your skeleton like?

  • Are you tight or feel restricted?

  • How do you feel today?

• There are lots of answers and everyday is different

  • the deltoid ligament in your foot lifts that transverse arch, supports your lower back ( lumbar area), speaks to your rib cage and helps to balance your hips. So don’t roll your arches ( Where is this ligament?).

  • The long arch of your foot reflects the curvature of your spine…

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• Muscles reflect organs and therefore the systems of your body - like the calf muscles to adrenals.

What can you do with information like this when you train or teach? Does it help you to take care of your movers? Would it influence your training and movement?

I love this work -teaching, weaving my training and years in therapeutics both physical and in psychology. I have seen that it prevents injuries; opens and even heals the mind and being of dancers who have been wounded or made to feel ‘inadequate’ or less than … We can and should take care in teaching; stand honestly with each student and draw out, fitness, inspire, the magical being connecting and weaving - the artist!…

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My teaching of technique classes, I call BRIAHWork - which means ‘breath of life’. I work to ensure the physical, mental and emotional health of each mover as we proceed in classes- gaging their strengths and abilities, appropriate movement for age and future development. There is absolutely no need to damage anyone in or though movement - rather , it is our job to inspire and ensure the beauty of movement as a human expression and connection,

Welcome - to classes, coaching and individual /small sessions. If you would like to schedule a therapeutic-person or on-line session - please do email me. Amazing!

You too can be certified in Embodied Awareness© to broaden your approach in teaching and trying in dance and movement, Pilates, Gyrotonics, Yoga, Therapeutics, Counseling and Everyday Life.

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While classes are small and limited, I will teach a schedule of ‘regular classes’ for Open Ballet, Modern & Contemporary Dance as well as Embodied Awareness© Conditioning, Breathwork & Stretching with a minimum of 5 dancers.

ALL Classes are based on Pre-Registration - Personally designed & with Limited Enrollment & Subject to Cancellation