About this Service

One-hour integrated movement sessions combining Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, Gyrotonic, Pilates, and Yoga — with a closing movement sequence tailored to your body and goals that day.

Sessions are assessment-based. I begin by observing how you move before offering anything. Most people have been told what is wrong with them. I am more interested in what is possible — and in my experience, the body's capacity is usually greater than previous practitioners or the person themselves has assumed.

I work with three groups:

General health and mobility — people dealing with postural compensation, chronic tension, pain that has quietly become normal, or movement confidence lost to injury or age. The goal is ease in daily life: walking, carrying, reaching without bracing against yourself.

Dancers — technique refinement, injury recovery, and the somatic awareness that separates competent execution from genuine artistry.

Figure skaters — off-ice integrated movement work that translates back to the blade. Alignment, movement quality, the path through difficult skills, and the body intelligence underneath all of it. Video review of practice or performance, and rink-side observation when the situation allows.

Sessions are not a fixed program. They respond to where you are that day and build progressively toward what your body is genuinely capable of.

About this Lister

I am a movement practitioner based in New York City with a background spanning professional athletics, ballet, modern dance, and competitive figure skating.

I am revisiting somatic coaching through my own recovery from a serious injury. Out on the streets afterward, I saw how many people were struggling with the same things I was — walking, standing, climbing stairs without bracing — and how often that struggle had quietly been accepted as normal. I applied every method in my arsenal to rebuild what I had lost, which gave me both a subject's and a practitioner's understanding of these techniques from the inside out.

I work with clients in-home throughout NYC and via Zoom. My approach is warm, rigorous, and non-judgmental. I believe every body contains more capacity than they are currently expressing. My job is to help create conditions for that capacity to surface, whether in the street, on the stage, or on the ice — sometimes gradually, sometimes faster than either of us expects.

Background and Expertise

Professional performance credits include Dance Theatre of Harlem, Houston Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, and working with Merce Cunningham and the lineage. Figure skating training and performance with the Ice Theatre of New York community. Currently training with Karen Courtland Kelly and competing annually at the World Figure Championships and Fancy Skating on Black Ice — third place, International Open.

Ballet training began at the University of Iowa under Françoise Martinet and continued on scholarship at the Des Moines Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, and Steps on Broadway with Willie Burmann. As a working professional, I took classes with Maggie Black, David Howard, and Christine Wright, and currently with Zvi Gotheiner and Karin Averty. Private coaching history includes SoHo Gym; teaching credits include Broadway Dance Center and Empire Dance.

Integrated modalities: Feldenkrais Method (Awareness Through Movement), Gyrotonic, Pilates, Yoga. It takes no special equipment, just bring your observation and awareness. and to enjoy spontaneous and trained movement.

No special equipment required — just bring your observation and awareness, and a willingness to enjoy both spontaneous and trained movement.

Your muscles are always long enough for your limbs — they just need to trust the brain and surrounding tissue enough to let go.