Why Girl Integrated?

Most of my students are women— including trans women.

As a woman myself, I am particularly sensitive to how 

women are conditioned to defer to external sources for answers

rather than trusting our own subjective experience.

Also, I like the variation on the theme of interruption

and the stop-and-start nature of real learning.

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Why Movement?

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As a massage therapist, yoga teacher, performer and voice instructor,

I’ve spent years observing how people hold their histories in their bodies.
Pain, tension and limitation are rarely simple—they are a culmination

of movement patterns, memories, beliefs, and the ways we protect ourselves.

Movement was our first intelligence— so why not start there?

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Why Feldenkrais?​

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We are all taught, from a very young age, to not feel—

on multiple levels and for multiple reasons.

Negotiating relationships and activities without all of that rich sensory data

is like reading a review of a movie and thinking you saw it.

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The Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education lets us work with

our own nervous system in a way that honors it—

not by fixing or forcing, but by expanding awareness.

​The idea is that when we understand how we move, we can move differently.
And when we move differently, the ripple effects reach far and wide.​