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MOVEMENT CREATIVE.
TEACHER'S TEACHER.

  • Certified Movement Specialist (FRCMS, FRA, FRSC (strength coach) & Kinstretch)

  • Creator of The Movement Life & TML method

  • E-RYT 500 Yoga Instructor & Creator of RYS 200 Pranalife Yoga Teacher Training

  • 20+ years of teaching packed classes & certifying the best teachers

  • Trekkest (you heard me), mountain lover, whiskey drinker, writer

It’s possible to end chronic pain, age confidently, and feel better than ever — and it’s your turn to experience it.

I’m a movement specialist who helps you create space — in your joints, and anywhere you feel pain or limitations – so you can move and age with more freedom.

For over a decade I was a hardcore Ashtanga ("Power") Yoga teacher. If you wanted to push your limits and sweat ‘till you dropped, you wanted in my classes. My yoga teacher training course was filled with enthusiastic movers who couldn’t wait to lead their own hot n sweaty classes. Then, in 2011 I had a major low back injury, and everything changed.

It was devastating. I was in intense, chronic pain. I started losing my connection to yoga, and my sense of self as a capable, healthy person. After cycles of trying to go back to how I moved before and re-injuring my back, I knew I needed to figure out a new way to take care of myself. I was tired of fearing I would be in pain forever, being less and less active, and beating my body up. It was time to heal.

That’s when I began working with back pain specialist Dr. Stu McGill, and became a multiple-certified movement specialist with Functional Range Systems (FRS). After years of investment, research, collaboration and experience, I transformed how I moved - and how I taught. And the results were beyond what I expected.

My clients started to see the same positive changes I did:

  • their joints felt better,

  • aches and pain went away, and

  • they felt stable and strong.

They could pick up their kids without fear, or get back to an activity they thought they had to leave behind.

And so can you.

Age CONFIDENTLY

I use my energy, experience, and expertise to help you build a strong, healthy, stress-free body for life.

There is a third way to age that’s neither burning out or fading away.

I’m amazed now that I’m deep into my forties that the second act of life isn’t the one marketers are DYING to pitch. To me, there’s so much gold in these years because there’s so much more ME in my life. I’m wiser, more grounded, experienced, focused, and clear on who I am and who I’m not. I feel so much more capable, and that makes me excited about what I can do next.

And the same goes for YOU.

But the approach to this era of US is different. It’s less about throwing ourselves into things and taking the hits, and more about knowing what we want and building on our strengths. You know — being wiser. The Movement Life is about this journey of transformation that heals and strengthens our whole selves, beginning with our bodies and flowing into our entire lives.

Move confidently for decades:

Build strong joints and core in delicious flows, with just enough stretching to leave you feeling amazing. Each class is full of secrets I’ve mined from my own healing, and from successfully supporting hundreds of clients in their journeys back to the active lives they love to live.

Move now to keep moving well when you’re 80.

Make your own movement life:

When you’re ready to create your own movement with movement, you’re ready for The Movement Life Method certification course

Change lives — starting with your own — as a wildly successful, sought-after movement leader.

“Your classes have always been my favourite. I’m a huge desk jockey and I get the best relief with you, while gaining a better understanding of my body; you just don’t get that anywhere else.”

— Jessica Michael