About me
Connecting with my moving body changed my life. It was my biggest block and it’s been my biggest liberator.
I wanted deep change for myself and somehow I knew, for me, the way is physical.
Now I have joys that are our birthright, instincts from which we had long disconnected and an ability to navigate this world that just gets richer and stronger. And it is my deepest privilege to share this with other people.
I loved gymnastics as a kid and spent hours most evenings on my trampoline practicing and breaking things down, teaching myself new tricks. My beloved big sister taught Satyananda yoga from my early teens, introducing a strong relationship with personal practice which has stayed with me. Throughout my 20’s I played ice hockey and trained most circus aerials.
I was training and passionately engaged in these things, but my strength was dependant upon well worn pathways and I wasn’t at all comfortable in my skin. I was strong in some ways, but my whole system was weak and locked up with rubble, afraid of expressing myself physically.
Contact Improvisation found me with a subtle but full body roll from another beloved big sister as part of her aerials class. A light began to flicker somewhere deep and dormant. Contact Improvisation then became a compass for my physical research which opened me up to a martial art that was no where near my radar.
Slowly peeling back the layers, deeper truer freeer levels of myself began to reveal, whispering all along.
I believe anything worth having doesn’t come for free.
Helping people to connect with their core and central pillar; to unlock and discover a living they hadn’t thought possible is what I’m here for and the privilege it is to connect with this work has no words.
I'm beyond grateful to my most influential teachers who have and continue to nourish me.
My approach to physical training
I adapt each session to who I am working with and where you’re at that day.
My style is a bit silly and playful. Come as you are.
The strength I’m into and specialize in is there when you need it. And it can surprise you. It’s versatile and improvisable and doesn’t depend on well-worn pathways of a specific lift.
I use a lot from conventional methods like pilates and calisthenics with floor and bodyweight work, weights, along with lesser known methods for training strength, mobility, flexibility and one’s own relationship with their body, moving into a changed way of being.
My most influential teachers
Dave Wardman with Physical Alchemy, LeeAnne Litton and Alejandro Rolandi at Strings Attached and Peter Aftanas with The Combat System. Special mention to Ann Charleston of Movement Republic.
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I acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, and that Australian land was never ceded.
I offer my deepest respect and gratitude to Indigenous elders - past, present and emerging.