Selfie at Fort Mason San Francisco 2025, My beautiful friend, me, my amazing Dad

 

My passion is working with women: helping you to reconnect with that powerful energy that flows inside and through you.

 

Pain can be a voice that calls us back to our bodies.

 

In chiropractic, we see that the body has Innate Intelligence. This is an inborn, non-destructible wisdom that directs the body in all its many and complex functions to adapt and heal. 

 

My job as a chiropractor is to help remove the interference to allow this divine intelligence to flow smoothly through the body and do the healing.

 

Restrictions can come in many forms: emotional, physical, chemical, even our thoughts can be the interference getting in the way of us reaching our goals.

 

When you connect with your deep alignment you feel it physically and energetically, and your goals and dreams become so much easier to achieve.

 

I am honored to help you make those connections and those dreams become your reality.

 

More about what brought me here, how I practice, and What will a session look like.

 

 

I began studying how to put hands on a body and deeply connect when I was 4 and sitting in at a yoga retreat about pelvic alignment with my parents. Instead of playing with the blocks or coloring, I was deeply watching the course. The teacher invited me into join and recognized the healer within me. Since then I have built up a plentiful and colorful toolbox. Because of my personality and overflowing curiosity I love working with all sorts of people. Each session is different. I love the challenge and creativity of meeting each individual exactly where they are at that moment. People often tell me that I go to a spot no where near where they hurt, but once I touch it, it feels like exactly what they needed. I believe this is my craft, the art of truly listening to each body. 

Each body and each healing process is completely unique and yet there are great themes we all share while having the gift of inhabiting a human body. 

 

I spent over 15 years teaching Pilates as a way of rehabbing injuries. I also have multiple movement practices and have seen how small adjustments in the exercises you are already doing can make all the difference! I love working with women who already have an exercise practice, I can help you get more out of your workout by just a few focused cues!

 

I did extended study and practice in biomechanics specifically of the foot and gait, how each step we take effects our alighnment up the kinetic chain. If there is a restriction in your foot you may feel it in your knees, hips, low back, shoulders, neck and even as a migraine! Click HERE for a 5 minute foot rolling video. (a tennis ball will work) This is one thing you can do right now, its free, to help invite you back into your body and to the connection with the great healer. Try it for 7 days and see for yourself.

 

I studied many soft tissue modalities in chiropractic school, but I decided to further my study with ART Active Release Technique. ART  works with the muscles, connective tissue, fascia, and how they glide and slide in harmony. One of the bodies amazing adaptive responses when dealing with trauma is to stabilize the joint to prevent further injury. We call this scar tissue. This is amazing because it can be life saving (think injuries close to the spine), and also preventative of further injury (the twisted ankle that seemed just fine until...)but at some point we need our mobility back for long, healthy, fluid lives. This is where modalities that address scar tissue shine. They help restore mobility to the area and increase motion in the joint.

 

About 10 years ago I did continuing education on Cranial Sacral work, I was pregnant with our first daughter during that series, what a treat. This year I am beginning a two year Biodynamic Cranial Sacral program in Nimes France! This work addresses the subtle waves of the cerebral spinal fluid which bathes and nourishes the brain and spinal cord. Biomechanically speaking each step we take our llium bones and sacral bone, the bones of our pelvic bowl, do this beautiful little figure 8 motion. This motion, in great harmony of the entire body, helps to push the cerebralspinal fluid up making this lovely wave back to the brain. When there is a restriction say in the pelvis, one of the joints is not moving optimally, this can cause less fluid flow and lead to tension in the spine, neck and jaw, and global feelings of dis-ease and decreased vitality. 

 

I bring to you this mix each session. Most sessions begin with a standing body check in. I find that working with you standing (the most challenging position) gives me the most information about how you relate to gravity and also the quickest way to have my gentle adjustments stick. By activating the propiorecetors in the feet and ankles and the cerebellum for subtle movements, the body is able to make lasting changes. From there I will ask you to lay facedown on the table. I am currently using SOT blocks (from Sacral Occipital Technique)to balance the pelvis as you lay on the table. This feels like floating and most people take a deep sigh once the blocks are placed.

 

Our bodies are these magnificently organized groups of individual cells. We are communities within ourselves. Our experiences, often being times of deep challenge, offer us invitations to befriend our communities and our spirits. If you are receiving this invitation, welcome!

 

I look forward to meeting you and working together!