An open letter to fellow practitioners…

I know how it feels to suffer with chronic pain.

And, I also know how it feels to experience a level of care that is so comprehensive, so compassionate, and so physically effective, that the experience of working with the pain actually becomes a vehicle for profound personal growth and achievement.

It has been an extraordinary life lesson to be guided to the realization that the solution for working with pain does not live outside of me. It is actually an internal, instinctual ability which we all possess, and sometimes we just need help remembering its there.

I experienced this process of remembering through Barnes method Myofascial Release treatment. I developed awareness and understanding about the embodiment of emotions and trauma, I achieved postural realignment from the hands-on techniques, and I gained knowledge of how fascia is at the very center of both of these areas of our comprehensive health.

Perhaps the most important part of this experience was the heartfelt care by MFR therapists who were less intent on wielding their intellect to be an “expert” on me, and more focused on leading me back to myself so that I could be empowered to create lasting change.

After more than 20 years of practice as a therapist, seminar instructor, and study group leader, I have made it my mission to guide fellow therapists to the inner work that transforms intellectual knowledge into embodied wisdom, and technical proficiency into healing mastery.

I help therapists lead with compassion, become deeply attuned, recognize and trust their intuitive voice, learn to allow dialogue to come through them rather than come from them, and consistently, lovingly communicate in ways that empower their clients to recognize that they are their own healer.