Our work at DBP begins with the understanding that our bodies are deeply intelligent and hold the knowledge and memory of easy, efficient, balanced, pleasurable movement. Our minds, bodies, emotions, and spirits are not separate from this work. The accumulated stresses of trauma, exhaustion, burnout, long hours at the computer and/or commuting, our “no pain, no gain” fitness culture can contribute to movement habits and patterns that take us away from our body’s genius leaving us susceptible to injury and managing chronic pain.

Our work together is to understand the source of these unhealthy movement habits - postural, strength imbalance, hyper-mobility, hypo-mobility, stress, repetitive stress - and to begin to release the pattern. We then need to support the new (or remembered) healthy pattern through balanced muscle strengthening, integrated movement, breath, presence, awareness, healthy posture and gait.

My belief is that deep listening to the body is central to finding our way to healthy, joyful movement, body awareness, and a sense of well being. Listening for how the body wants to move, the muscles that need strengthening, the muscles that need release. Listening to where we feel pain, more subtly where we feel blocked energy, when we feel disconnected from our bodies, stressed/ungrounded, heavy/exhausted. I draw on a wide range of tools from Pilates repertoire, Yamuna Body Release, dance/movement techniques and massage/energy work to listen to the body and guide our work.

DBP’s Private Sessions and Classes integrate Pilates, Yamuna Body Rolling and Talawa Technique.

DBP’s Massage Therapy Sessions integrate Craniosacral, Acupressure, and Shiatsu Therapies. Lymphatic Drainage Sessions follow the Vodder Technique.