Trauma Wise Neuroscience for Moving Bodies
I have been a movement coach since 2008.
Starting with personal training and group fitness, my coaching evolved to specialize in aerial silks and rope technique. In recent years, my personal movement practice and coaching has expanded beyond the skeleto-muscular and into the neuro-somatic. A list of my certifications and education can be found below.
I now coach private mobility clients and aerial students seeking injury-rehabilitation and longevity of practice through my Movement Missing Links business. I work with actors and performance artists as a movement director for theatre and film.
is for folks who love to move, but who experience ongoing pain, injury history, hypermobility, and/or neurodivergence.
Combining the science of nervous system regulation, a mind/body approach to mobility training, and trauma-sensitive coaching and support, MML can help you learn how to both how to respond to the sensations that arise in your body and how to cooperate with them so that you find freedom and confidence in your physicality.
MML is a trauma-informed, gender, body, and neurodivergence affirming practice that deepens the bodymind connection for a more playful and confident experience of physicality.
MML expands physical capacities of embodied attention, joint stability, motor control, and integrated coordination that goes beyond training and into everyday life as well!
Certifications:
Integrated Kinetic Neurology (Levels 1 & 2, Performance)
Functional Range Systems (Functional Range Conditioning, Kinstretch)
NASM Personal Trainer
Additional Movement Education:
Feldenkrais (3 month course Antonio Ramos; Sarah Lawrence College and self-study)
Body Mind Centering: Embodying Cellular Consciousness Online weekend workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Body Mind Centering: Perception as Key to Embodying the Nervous System 8 week course with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Postural Restoration Institute (Myokinematic Restoration, Postural Respiration)
Power Within Healing: Awakening Bodies Trauma Informed Somatics Mentorship
Wild Soul Healing (Inner Voice, Tarot for the Wild Soul, Heart of Service)
Nita Little's Relational Intelligence Practice and 1:1 Mentorship, Contact Improvisation Mentorships (The Field Center, VT; Berlin, NYC), and Somatic Communication Trainings (Berlin)
The Field Center Workshops (Contact Improvisation, Nita Little; Rehearsing Wellbeing: Axis Syllabus, Folk Dance, Body Music, Sweet Labour Collective, Nuria Bowart)
Imagery Classes with Bonnie Buckner (Body I, II, and III)
Z-Health (Essentials of Elite Performance, Z-Health The Breathing Gym)
Stop Chasing Pain (Vagus Nerve Masterclass)
ARTIC ORG (Anti-Racist Trauma Informed Care): How to Be Less Harmful course
Modern & Contemporary Dance (Zina Zinchenko, Bobbi Jene Smith, Jodi Melnick, Wendall Gray II, Peggy Gould, Catie Leasca, Linda Seligman and others)
Aerial Arts (Leo Hedman, Jordann Baker, Lisa Natoli, Paper Doll Militia, Emiliano Ron, Susan Voyticky and others)
Flexibility (Anna Venizelos, Michele Medina, Micah Walters and others)
Medical Disclaimer: Please note that I am not a doctor. I am not a licensed medical care provider, and I have no expertise in diagnosing, examining, or treating medical conditions of any kind, or in determining the effect of any specific exercise on a medical condition. The information I offer and teach is based on my personal experience/embodied research, the qualifications listed above, other continuing education, and 14 years as a Personal Trainer. I recommend that you consult with your physician before beginning any exercise program to ensure that participation is safe for your unique circumstances.