I got into this because my own body stopped cooperating.

The short version

I was an athlete first. Tennis, then everything else Colorado talks you into. I collected the injuries that go with it, and on top of that I carried chronic pain that nobody could explain to me in language I believed. I was told to rest, to stretch, to take something and wait.

None of it worked, because none of it asked why. What finally helped was two things together: getting the spine moving where it had stopped, and then learning to move well enough that it stayed that way. That is the whole practice. It is not a philosophy I picked up in school. It is the thing that got me out of pain.

So I trained in both halves. Chiropractic for the joint. Yoga, at a level deep enough to teach anatomy to other teachers, for the movement. Strength work for the load your life actually puts on you. And a lot of attention to the nervous system, because a body stuck in fight-or-flight will guard, brace, and undo good work between visits.

I am not interested in managing your symptoms for the rest of your life.

Pain is information. It usually shows up downstream of the actual problem. My job is to find the thing upstream — the segment that stopped moving, the hip that quit rotating, the eight hours a day you spend in one shape — and change it. Then teach you what to do so you need me less over time.