I was born and raised in Girdwood, Alaska and make my home in Kennicott (McCarthy) Alaska now. My Rolfing®Structural Integration practice and yoga teaching happens in both of these places.  I am also willing to do home visits in other locations such as the Copper River Basin, anywhere along the Glenn Highway, Anchorage or elsewhere. Feel free to ask.

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My background includes nordic racing, mountain guiding, climbing, backcountry skiing and mountaineering. My life has been formed around these things, and I understand from personal experience the frustrations of being held back from your goals and passions by pain. I also understand that finding more efficiency of body use can make a big difference in the performance of a high level athlete.

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I found Rolfing® and started using yoga in a therapeutic way when my own body stopped allowing me to do what I wanted with it. I spent nearly 10 years actively self healing from a time in my late 20s when I reached a point of pain and exhaustion that kept me from doing much of anything for over a year. Standing up straight, walking uphill without a lot of pain and holding a job were all off the books for the worst of that time. It has been a journey of incredible learning and now I want to help other people avoid such a thing.

 

If I can save even one person the long frustration of trying to figure out how to heal, and instead help them move forward in the process more quickly than I did, I will feel like my efforts are worthwhile. Better yet, I would like to help people never get to that point in the first place. If you address the small problems you may avoid the large ones.