Zen Hewn

My Methods

Our sessions are informed by the breath and depth of my training, and often mix ideas from all modalities. What we create together is informed by what is releaved in our sessions.

• Gyrotonic® EXPANSION SYSTEM®

  The Gyrotonic EXPANSION SYSTEM® is an exercise method designed to take your body beyond its current limitations. Each Gyrotonic session combines aspects stretching, strength training, and physical therapy to create a strong and invigorated mind and body.

  • Through the use of oppositional movements, it builds tensegrity within the body to create balance, strength, agility and resilience.
  • Through the use of spiraling motions, it challenges the fascial lines to improve flexibility, increase functional range of motion, and relieve pain.
  • Through the use of flowing exercise sequences, it develops the mind-body connection to harmonize muscular effort and achieve whole body strength.

  Each exercise is uses a custom suite of Gyrotonic equipment is designed to guide and challenge you through the entire arc of each each movement. Each machine is designed to highly adpatable, allowing it to be tailor fit to your body's fitness, ability, conditions, and needs. The goal of each exercise is to target weak and tight areas simultaneously, to build a more integrated body free of aches, pains, and restrictions.

• Massage

  The power of direct intervention through touch can create profound change in how you experience of your body. My extensive studies covers a wide range of madilaties and techniques to offer you bodywork customized to your body. These include deep tissue, mayofacial, Shiatsu and Craniosacral. I listen to you, your body, and your spirit to guide me how and where to work, and provide relief to chronic pain, somatic trauma, or stress from a mad, mad, world.

  Though massage can be a deeply moving and effective intervention, for chronic conditions I find that it rarely creates lasting change. Change doesn’t come from being passive. It requires being an active participant. It requires working to create new habits of self care and self love.

  Ultimately, I seek to help clients to find movement practices which resonate with them and are supportive of our body work. My preference is to combine our bodywork with movement work. My aim is to support your dialog between your mind and the body, and empower you to take radical acts of self love.

• Franklin Method®

  The Franklin Method® uses Dynamic Neuro-cognitive Imagery™, anatomical embodiment, and educational skills to create lasting positive change in your body and mind. The Franklin Method was founded by Eric Franklin in 1994. It is taught all over the world, including the Universities of Vienna, Cologne, Karlsruhe and the Juilliard School in New York.

  The Franklin Method® is recognized by the health providers in Switzerland and is regularly seen at Dance, Pilates, Yoga and Physiotherapy conferences. One of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century is the plasticity of the brain; that the lives we live shape the brain we develop. The Franklin Method® is at the forefront of practical neuro-plasticity; showing you how to use your brain to improve your body’s function. It teaches you how to harness the transforming power of the mind. It can be applied to improve all of your abilities. It all starts with the knowledge that we have the power to change.

  The Franklin Method® teaches dynamic alignment and how to move your body with maximum efficiency to keep your body youthful and energized. Your whole body is part of a symphony of coordinated movement. In a sense, your posture is reinvented at every instant. In every moment, the ideal combination of limbs, joints, gravity, moving parts, connective tissue, and muscle must be found and directed by your brain and nervous system.

• Social Dance

  Social dancing is what initially drew me into my journey into the somatic arts. The pursuit of freedom of movement through technique led me to study numerous styles of dance from Ballroom to Ballet, West African to West Coast Swing, before branching out into the somatic arts. From these broad studies, I have learned to see the roots of movement in all dances. What I have to offer is the broad and unique perspective of Dance as part of the human experience.

  Dancing is the physical expression of connection to the spirit. That connection serves as our wellspring for our own authentic beautiful movement. Every lesson in dance is ultimately a lesson in connection and the embodiment of that connection.