about me: human & business owner

After a debilitating back injury at the age of 25, Pilates became a central piece of my physical and emotional healing practice. Combined with running, it radically changed my relationship to my body. Pilates has been a catalyst in my life for learning to appreciate what my body can do and to appreciate the fact that my body exists, rather than to appreciate it only for how it looks and how much (or how little) space it takes up.

Formerly a burned out tech worker, I became a Pilates teacher for my own health and well-being, but also so that I might facilitate for my clients the type of growth, awareness, and embodiment that I enjoy as a result of a regular Pilates practice.

As a small business owner who lives with intermittent disability, chronic pain, and mental health challenges that are often at odds with working the way our capitalist society demands, I am striving to create a business that supports my well-being, trusting that if I build a business that can truly support my needs, I will be better able to support my clients, friends, family, and loved ones. I am striving to be as anti-capitalist as possible and hold these values as my north star in building and growing my business: I am committed to slow growth because it defies the capitalist directive to grow as rapidly and as perpetually as possible, which is extractive, ableist, perfectionistic, and unsustainable. Instead, I uplift and invest in sustainability, reciprocity, and abundance.

In addition to Pilates, some other things I also get excited about, in no particular order:

• My cat Zora

• Soaking up some sunshine by Lake Merritt

• Poetry

• Table-top role playing games

• Astrology

• Motorcycles

• Sewing clothes

• Hiking and camping

• Being in a constant state of learning and unlearning

• Anti-capitalist and anti-racist existence and community building