“My two careers dovetail better than you might think! The common thread is advocacy and empowerment of the self.”

I’ve been in private practice since graduating Potomac Massage Training Institute in 1999! This program provided instruction in anatomy and physiology, plenty of ‘hands-on instruction’, and most importantly a solid foundation in massage as healthcare and not an ‘indulgence’. With many clients and many continuing education classes since then, I have gained expertise in several modalities.

I recently retired from my program manager role in Advanced Academics instruction at the elementary level. It was a big and lovely mash-mash of designing professional development, coaching, curriculum design, project management, and identification of students.

I love the process of guiding others to the revelation that they know more, can do more, can accomplish more, already are more. My underlying goal for my students was to help them become active participants in their learning. Not passive recipients of something ‘dumped’ into their brains. (Kids are not sponges; that analogy is outdated and inaccurate.) Applying that same philosophy in a therapeutic massage setting means facilitating learning of body awareness. My underlying goal is to help clients learn what it means to actively participate in their bodies so that healing can happen.

Therapeutic massage creates space for connections and awareness to surface regarding habits that contribute to our problem and pain areas.

Meanwhile, it also creates the physical relief/change for muscle and fascial tissue to let go, to relax.

BestBodyMind is born from a core drive to share with people their own great capacity to be active participants in their bodies, to connect to themselves - body and mind - to be happy and pain free.