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 In my practice, I strive to be as
open and honest about myself as people are with me in the work we do
together. In that spirit I’ll give you an introduction to who I
am, what my background is and a bit about how I manifested my ideal
career that is this wonderful practice!
As a child growing up in Connecticut, I was a
soloist in the Weston Ballet Repertory Company. This early experience
made me keenly aware of the optimal movement and care of the body, as
well as a love for an artform that I have never lost. Dance and dance
injuries sparked my interest in the body and my obsession with its
wellbeing. In fact, I had already started researching vitamins and
their actions by the age of 15. Although I never danced professionally,
I graduated with a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University with a
Major in Anthropology but just a few credits shy of a Dance Minor,
having enjoyed performing with dance students at Juilliard as an
undergraduate.
Initially my career took a corporate
direction, beginning in the marketing department at Time Life Books in
London and including a stint at MTV Networks in NYC. I soon realized,
however, that my interest in the mind and body could be ignored no
longer and I took a job in the Neuropsychology Dept. at the University
of Virginia, followed by a position at The Journal of Neurosurgery under
John Jane, MD.
An interest in blending my knowledge
of the mind and body with a hands-on healing technique led me to spend
the three, dedicated, years it takes to become a certified teacher of
The Alexander Technique, graduating in 2000 from The American Center for
the Alexander Technique. I appear in the first instructional
videos ever made of the Technique with actor William Hurt and teacher
Deborah Caplan in Solutions for Back Trouble available
through the BOOKSTORE page of this site and online on video and DVD.
An interview I did for the Alumni Spotlight section of
TheSquare.com can
be viewed by
clicking here.
I graduated from the Institute for
Integrative Nutrition in 2004 and subsequently joined as a staff member
of the school for 2 years, while maintaining my Alexander and Nutrition
private practices.
My Natural Health Life Coaching
practice evolved when I recognized how much life coaching was needed and
indeed required in my nutritional counseling sessions with clients. Life
coaching training with Brooke Loening put the finishing touches on the
tools I needed to help people reach a whole new level of success not
possible before. Obtaining peak health on all levels is not just
about diet, and it has been proven that people need support to make
serious changes that are lasting.
While I have spent most of my life
learning about alternative medicine and studying different healing
techniques, I have also studied many different traditions, philosophies
and techniques that would fall under the category of spirituality.
I call it practical spirituality because it’s spiritual in that it
accesses the unseen and practical because it works.
I look forward to
working with you.
Photographs by Rosa
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