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Yoga Physical Therapist Blending Yoga and Physical Therapy for Mindfulness, Understanding, Compassion, and Healing.

Blending Physical Therapy and Yoga to address ALL the reasons why you hurt: Body, Mind and Spirit. Offering both physical therapy and wellness via private sessions and online programs.

09/09/2026

I believe that anyone with chronic MSK pain can benefit from low intensity exercise. Low intensity is a way to build awareness; learn what hurts and what doesn’t; understand capacity and effort; and just get to know your body. Consider low intensity exercise the foundation on which to build all other movements.

For those who are avoidant of movement, you will learn you can do more than you think.

For those who are endurant (regularly push through pain), you’ll learn more about your limits and how to grow pain-free capacity from that point. And yes, it will be difficult for you to slow down, maybe more so than the avoidant.

You don’t have to eliminate other types of movement while you learning and feeling. You implement what you learn during moderate and high intensity activities.

While slowing down can be difficult, it really is the only way to build awareness better system.

27/08/2026

While we may want to “fix” the activity or exercise where we feel the pain, mostly what we need to do is reset.

For women who…

Stay busy
Don’t have time
Can’t be still
Could never meditate

That’s exactly what you need IF you want to be free from pain that limits you.

Curious? Let’s talk. Feel free to message me.

Even I’m stuck in the medical system. I work 2 days a week inside the system in a traditional outpatient physical therap...
26/08/2026

Even I’m stuck in the medical system. I work 2 days a week inside the system in a traditional outpatient physical therapy clinic. Even though I offer yoga inside this facility, it is an isolated part of the system. I’m working solo within a system that doesn’t really understand current science for chronic pain.

The only way I can offer what people with persistent muscle, joint and spine pain need is to be outside of the system. My goal is to offer affordable, accessible, and “high touch” care. You can check out my programs at the link in my bio: “work with me” or feel free to message me to start a conversation.

Get lucky!!🍀

18/08/2026

I was asked recently “what’s the best yoga pose for chronic pain?”

First I said anything gentle or maybe breathing;)!

But then I settled on cat/cow, but not in ways you might expect.

From the very beginning of my Physical Therapy career I have loved pelvic tilts.

AND NOT JUST POSTERIOR

I guide pelvic tilts in supine hooklying, prone, all 4s (the traditional cat/cow), standing, forward bending, in downward dog…you get the idea.

I use cat/cow or anterior/posterior pelvic tilts for many reasons…

1️⃣ it’s a great way to become aware of your body. Where are your hips, pelvis and low back?

2️⃣ done through a comfortable range (and almost everyone has a comfortable range, though it may take some time to find), the rocking or oscillating movement can have a calming effect on the nervous system.

3️⃣ To create more comfort! Feeling back pain while lifting or bending, perform a pelvic tilt to change the position and find more comfort! It gives people agency over their own body!!

4️⃣ again, within a comfortable position, this movement sends a message to the brain that it’s OK and safe to move.

None of these goals are achieved in 1 session. Some people are really locked up throguh the hips, pelvis and low back. But freeing this motion is necessary for more freedom of movement all over. The pelvis is

Is it just for low back and hips? NO!

5️⃣ It’s great to perform with breathing for rib mobility.

6️⃣ It’s also great to relieve neck tension. When done in the supine hooklying position, IF muscles are relaxed you can get a similar oscillation (what I call a bobble head movement) of the head and neck.

Give any of these a try and let me know how it feels.

Cat/cow will be taught as a foundational movement in my series: Yoga Through the Body.

Take time each week to connect with your body and your self. You’ll learn…about how your joints and muscles functionhow ...
14/08/2026

Take time each week to connect with your body and your self.

You’ll learn…

about how your joints and muscles function

how tension is created by the challenges in our lives

to make sense of discomfort and pain

if the discomfort is safe or potentially damaging.

As always, my classes are full of research-supported practices.

The best part is joining a group of “like-hearted” and curious women who want to grow together.

So join me onsite or get the recording of each class.

Clinicians and yoga teachers welcome to come and explore new ways of caring for people with pain.

Link in bio to register for session 1: 4 classes starting August 28.

14/08/2026

A consistent practice of mindfulness and meditation gave me a new perspective on treating people with persistent muscle, joint and spine pain.

I see the suffering that pain has caused you.

AND

I see the suffering that has caused your pain.

I described this ‘layered’ approach recently to a group of clinicians. Most of the focus in physical therapy is where pain is felt…on the body.

Peeling back the layers: body, stress, thoughts, beliefs, and all the way down to fear; allows me to see new problems and solutions.

There we discover other sources of suffering; mostly secret and quiet suffering, not acknowledged, not shared but present.

That’s where healing begins.

First by acknowledging the suffering exists and then a willingness to address it without judgement, instead compassion.

What hurts you?

Over the next few months I’m guiding women through the body.

From feet to head

From surface to depths

For a better understanding of how to heal pain.

Link in bio.

16/07/2026

The “damaged tissue” explanation for pain persists because it supports medicine and society’s desire not only for a “quick fix” but for “quick profit”.

Mountains of evidence across both physical and psychological sciences support that “pain is caused by the brain” and that changing pain takes a significant amount of time and consistent physical and mental practices.

Both medicine and society would rather continue seeking a quick fix than investing in long-term programs that have great potential for recovery.

Don’t get caught in the trap!

I’ve felt the pull too. During times of a frustrating rise in pain, I’ve sought help. But most of the time it feels like I’m chasing my tail.

In the last 10 years with consistent physical and mental practices as much for my nervous system as anything; I’ve stopped chasing. I feel like I’m out of the trap.

This is the last chance to join me live and in person tomorrow for Honor Your Body.

It would be my honor to show you a new way to understand your pain.

Dublin Dance Centre, Columbus OH @ 10am. Link in bio.

13/07/2026

I love being in spaces where women are celebrated. No comparison to men. Just fully allowed to be strong and powerful.

I know that these spaces have the potential to heal us.

What I’ve felt my whole life but not really KNOWN until the last few years is that women are treated as

less than men
less valuable in their roles and opinions
second class
an after thought

I now also know that THIS is why women suffer…

Trying to be heard or valued for a different perspective
Trying to fit into systems built for men
Pushing bodies to meet expectations not designed for the female body

I thought women were making progress.

But the last few years of outspoken denial of women’s rights as equal humans has made me feel a certain way in my mind and in my body.

It’s made me aware of a tension in my body that really never goes away.

A “readiness” that stays present to keep me safe.

A constant scanning for danger, both for myself and my daughter.

And now I KNOW this is one layer of my pain…

An environment that puts women second in covert and now overt ways.

You’re not wrong to feel it. But it does help to understand how this tension contributes to your pain.

That’s why pain care is not a linear process or a “fix”.

How do you fix a society? How do avoid social spaces? How do you feel safe?

This is how you heal from the inside out.

Join me this Friday and 2 more Fridays in July and we’ll start the process. Link in bio.

I had a patient the other day say she ignores most of her body’s cues, especially while at work: doesn’t eat, doesn’t dr...
10/07/2026

I had a patient the other day say she ignores most of her body’s cues, especially while at work: doesn’t eat, doesn’t drink, doesn’t go to the bathroom. And by the end of her shift, she experiences pain and burning between the shoulder blades. She kept asking me what was in that spot and why was it painful???

I stayed away from any conversation about posture as the cause (which is a very common explanation for pain between the shoulder blades).

I tried to get her to understand that the sympathetic chain of nerves is located in that region and it is screaming at her to PAY ATTENTION to thirst, hunger, need for elimination and also overuse (since muscles in the area were really weak for her physical demands of her body).

I’m not sure it clicked with her, but how about you?

Does any of that make sense?

Sometimes pain is a signal to pay attention to what your body, mind and spirit needs in any moment.

Honoring those needs is how you heal.

Join me for my upcoming Mini Retreat where I’ll teach you how. 1st session in 1 week July 17. Link in bio or DM me for details.

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