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06/18/2026

A few weeks ago I reposted an infographic about a recent study contradicting many of the claims made in the very popular book The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk.

I really appreciated the study and its contribution to our understanding of trauma and its physical effects but some of you pointed out that the arguments made in the post did not take into account the importance of fascia in managing chronic pain.

Then Bendy Bodies from Linda Bluestein MD (hEDS / HSD spc) , which covers research and treatment of Hypermobility/Ehlers-Danlos, popped into my inbox with an article about how important fascia is in understanding the complex, seemingly unrelated symptoms for HEDS folks and I nerded out hard and wrote this week’s newsletter on fascia and pain.

The cliff notes: while fascia may not “store” trauma, understanding fascia is essential in the treatment of chronic pain and tightness. Historically we thought of fascia as just a scaffolding for muscles and organs, but it is actually packed with sensory nerves that are constantly feeding information to our brain. Fascia is also home to the interstitium, a network of tiny tubes that circulates all sorts of good stuff like hormones and proteins through every bit of our body. This means that the fascia is like our body’s fiberoptics system, providing essential communication that our brain uses to make critical decisions.

I go into more detail in the newsletter and provide links to some great resources, but the main takeaway is that the brain’s patterns may be the seat of chronic pain and tightness but the brain makes its decisions based on input from the body, fascia included. The divisions we set between “mind” and “body” aren’t always useful.

Hope this is helpful and yay for nuance

06/03/2026

In my newsletter this week I am getting deeper into the potential harms of aspirational advertising that promotes the Pilates Body.

In my last post I talked about how the manosphere has pounced on the Pilates Girl trope as a coded way to indicate their idea of a desirable woman. Using fitness as means of control and restriction of women is nothing new, but it’s even harder to slip out from under these concepts when we do it to ourselves.

When we approach fitness it is important to understand what it can and cannot do for us. The fact that many people who do Pilates are skinny has much more to do with who feels welcome in a Pilates class than the ways that Pilates actually changes your body.

I’ll say it again: weight loss is a potential side effect of exercise. There is no direct correlation between working out and getting skinny.

I’m putting so much thought into this because Pilates is very important to me. I credit Pilates with helping me stabilize my joints, reduce my back pain, and prolong my performance career by many years. I want other people to enjoy those benefits in classes that are welcoming and don’t set up expectations that are impossible to fulfill. This is what I worked to create when I had a studio, and it is work I see happening in many other spaces as well.

You can sign up for my newsletter if you want my full exposition on this subject. And if you have thoughts or experiences, or people who love who are expanding the idea of who Pilates is for and what it can do, I’d love to hear them!

05/16/2026

I had coffee! And nothing pi**es me off more than a bunch of men trying to ruin something I love by making it all about them.

To be clear this is not a rant about people who love Pilates or about people who do Pilates every day or about people who are thin. This is not a rant about pop Pilates. I love Pilates and anyone who does it has my full approbation.

This is a rant about the way that the manosphere/patriarchy is perverting something I love and thereby making it less powerful and accessible for women and anyone else who could benefit from an exercise form that promotes stability, alignment, mobility, and all sorts of other good things that aren’t related to being skinny and palatable.

I think it is very important for all of us Pilates instructors and advocates to resist this use of our discipline as a dog whistle for fatphobia and male BS.

And since I know this will come up, exercise may contribute to weight loss, or it may not. Weight loss is not one of the adaptations that the body makes to exercise it is a potential side effect based on many other factors. Science.

Thanks so much to for the rant inspo. Always interesting and topical!

And as always

05/13/2026

This new research brings it home. I read The Body Keeps the Score along with Waking the Tiger and I’ve been struggling ever since to understand the science behind fascia holding on to trauma. I think Candace Pert’s Molecules of Emotion comes the closest by bringing in peptides but in all the flexibility coaching and training I’ve done over the last 20 years I can say that says it beautifully:

“Healing is not excavation it’s exploration”

The way out of chronic tightness and pain is by having a relationship between the brain and the body that builds confidence, trust, bravery, and resilience.

💪💪💪

05/05/2026

Defining our terms helps us define our goals and choose our training tools.

The term “flexibility” is synonymous with “range of motion” by different from “mobility”.

Many people think they want more flexibility and choose training tactics to increase flexibility when a mobility would better serve their end goals.

What kind of training do you need? Flexibility or mobility or both?

04/24/2026

Today marks week 5 since I had my knee rebuilt by the amazing Dr Weber at his team at USC. I had three ligaments repaired and replaced (ACL PCL and MCL), but to everyone’s surprise my meniscus and LCL had healed themselves in the 4 months since the accident and didn’t need repair.

People talk about how hard it is to come back from a multi-lig repair like this and it is, but I’m so so lucky to have an ace team supporting me through this process.

Finding Dr Weber and my PTs at and has really made me appreciate that this casual stroll across my porch as not guaranteed, it was the result of input from skilled and caring professionals who have gotten to know me and been there for me through this process.

I want everyone to have care like this. I know how hard it is to access and in my own small way I want for my work as a coach and trainer to make quality care and knowledge as accessible as possible.

This experience has been challenging but also inspiring. So much is possible when we know how to care for our bodies.

I’m feeling ready to ease back into work. Lots of new ideas in the pipeline and I will continue to wrestle with this damn platform and try to post more.

03/19/2026

Nervous, ready, profoundly grateful. I could never have gotten through this alone.

After months of rehab, prehab, relearning to walk and move my knee the big day is finally here.

See you on the other side!

03/12/2026

I have been really struggling to get excited about posting on this platform. While my newsletter has been inspiring for me, posting here feels like feeding an ugly beast that encourages our darker nature and profits off our distraction, anxiety, fear, and animosity.

At the same time there is so much good work and cute animal content that would never exist and proliferate without this. And I have a lot to say. A lot. And so I’m once again trying to bring myself to dive into posting.

As an older person who, while not a Luddite is definitely not a digital native, and is unwilling to learn about the latest trends that drive engagement I’m a bit pessimistic about making much happen here but I’m going to show up with what I’ve got and post stuff that I’m working on and thinking about. No expectations.

As a side note I’ve decided to make my videos without trying to look particularly cute. When I was younger I always heard people (especially men) talk about women who looked older as if they had somehow let everyone down. That rhetoric is alive and well and I hate it so this is me and my 51 year old face. Boo.

01/29/2026

Coaching a backbend is one of my favorites because just a few small changes in cuing can make such a difference. .ra already had a gorgeous backbend so these changes aren’t super dramatic but as you watch the video in the second slide you can see how learning to engage the muscles in the back of their body before pushing up into the backbend gave them more access to their hips and upper back.

It was such a pleasure getting to work with Devaiya and getting to know them and the rest of the amazing group of aerialists who came to for the retreat!

I have missed coaching circus skills and I’m excited to get back to it this year. Stay tuned for some fun opportunities to get bendy together!

12/31/2025

It’s the time of year that many folks start thinking about the changes they want to make in the coming year. Fitness often appears on the resolution list.

But what makes a resolution into sustainable change is not what most of us expect. Willpower is not what will pull you through.

Credit to the Creatures of Habit episode of featuring Wendy Wood for inspiring this post

Happy New Year fellow humans ❤️

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