Feel-good Pilates for all bodies.

Get moving safely, despite pain or chronic illness.

It’s time to put pain in its place and define an active life on your terms.

Movement Remedies exists to address two problems:

  1. There is no clear pathway for people with chronic pain to do the thing they most need to do: get moving again.

  2. Health and wellness spaces are traditionally unwelcoming to diverse body shapes, sizes and abilities.

Here’s a sampling of the conditions that clients have overcome through private Pilates instruction and evidence-based programming.

  • Hip and knee replacement

  • Disc degeneration, spinal fusion

  • Spondylolisthesis, Stenosis

  • Pelvic pain syndromes

  • Stroke

  • Autoimmune conditions

  • Multiple Sclerosis

  • Osteoarthritis

  • Systemic inflammation

  • Traumatic Brain Injury

  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

  • Long COVID, POTS

  • Nonspecific chronic pain

  • Connective tissue disorders

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My Mission is to Make Movement Enjoyable for Every Body

When low back pain stole my dream of being on Broadway, I was 13 years old. Moving was a part of my identity and dancing was when I felt most alive. I was committed to figuring out how to move again.

My saga with pain has had many hills and valleys over the years, but what I know to be true is that the following things have been essential to finding lasting relief and movement confidence:

  • Understanding the science of pain and the nervous system

  • Surrounding myself with people who knew exactly when and how much to challenge me to keep trying

  • Allowing myself the space and empathy to face my fears and grief

These are the pillars of the Movement Remedies approach to helping clients conquer chronic pain and reclaim their right to an active life through clinical Pilates programming tailored to individual needs.

You deserve to feel good in your body!

I have helped dozens of clients in debilitating pain find joy in moving their bodies again. Using the Pilates method and its full breadth of equipment, I will design an exercise program around your unique goals and needs so you feel empowered to move every day, for the rest of your life.

Meant to Move Foundations: Get on the waitlist for Spring 2026

Meant to Move Foundations: Get on the waitlist for Spring 2026

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Guidance. Community. Accountability.

Meant to Move Foundations, our signature 7-day program for getting started with movement after pain, illness, trauma, or injury, is happening in January!

This transformative program only comes around twice per year and I am so confident your experience with movement will improve as a result that it comes with a money back guarantee!

This isn’t woo woo.

It’s science.

Roughly one in four adults experiences chronic pain at some point in their life. With all the advances in pain and neuroscience of recent decades it’s no wonder that pain is so common: we are more stressed, isolated and sedentary than ever before.

Once you have pain on a regular basis you start to lose faith in your own body, and you probably even fear that movement will cause pain. This leads you down a vicious cycle of less movement, more fear, and eventually—more dependence on others for daily tasks.

Only you hold the keys to stop this cycle in its tracks! Let me help you unlock your potential and achieve the active life you desire and deserve.

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