My parents had one rule for me in High School…I had to do a sport. Remembering the advise of my swimming instructor I decided to join swim team. Little did I know that this casual decision would steer the course of my life. By my senior year of high school I had dedicated myself to learning everything I could about swimming and, consequently the human body and movement. This dedication deepened in college. I started coaching swimming and learned as much as I could about the human body, how it moves and how to train it. Knowing I needed flexibility more than anything I happened upon The Runner’s Yoga Book and began to practice Yoga and stretching. During this time I also discovered the value of Trigger Point massage. At the end of college I had a minors in both Physical Education and Education. Upon returning home in 1999 I went to East West College of the Healing Arts to pursue my interest in massage and bodywork. I started teaching Kinesiology and Anatomy & Physiology as soon as I graduated in 2001 and kept adding various massage classes to my teaching repertoire for several years thereafter. In 2010 I discovered Structural Integration after a couple sessions of Rolfing. In 2011 I became a KMI (Kinesis Myofascial Integration, now Anatomy Trains Structural Integration) practitioner and a Board Certified Structural Integrator. Around this time I started writing books and teaching CE classes for Massage Therapists with Jonathan Primack, creating Integration Nation Bodywork and Integrative Bodywork for the Manual Therapist, now in its 2nd Edition. I also created the Structural Bodywork Elective at East West College and taught it for several years. After graduating from KMI I spent a couple years assisting for Anatomy Trains and KMI and I am so grateful for all these experiences.