For a long time, I was very good at pushing through.

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After the 2016 election, I trained for a marathon and raised thousands for gun safety. I worked grueling hours in high-stakes political campaigns. I learned how to override discomfort, push past limits, and measure success by how much of myself I could give.

 

Eventually, that stopped working. My body was sounding alarms: illness, fatigue, pain. I didn’t yet have the skills to listen, so I did what many people do. I tried harder. I got stricter. I ignored more.

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The turning point came through intuitive eating. What started as an attempt to repair my relationship with food became something bigger. As I stopped ignoring hunger, I started noticing everything else I had been overriding too: the need for rest, for ease, for creativity, for a life that felt more like mine.

 

Movement had been part of the problem. I had used it to control my body, to prove something, to stay “on track.” Now I wanted something different. I wanted movement that could support me instead of demand more from me.

 

I went looking for that space. I tried online programs. I went to in-person classes. I found pieces of what I wanted: functional strength, body awareness, opportunities to learn. But too often it came packaged with weight-loss talk, extreme intensity, or instructors who didn’t know how to work with my now bigger body.

 

That’s why I created BodiLab.

 

BodiLab is the movement space I wish I’d had: functional, intuitive, inclusive. A place where strength isn’t about control, and progress isn’t about punishment. A place where you can build capacity while also building trust.

 

I’m a certified Group Fitness Instructor and have completed 500 hours of yoga teacher training. I’ve studied integrated approaches to developing physical abilities, while keeping pleasure and common sense at the core.

 

Through BodiLab, I’m building a practice space where your body is welcome as it is, and movement is something you get to learn over a lifetime, not some kind of penance or obligation.

 

If you’ve ever felt out of place in a gym or yoga studio, or wanted something more anatomical, more joyful, more relaxed, and more empowering, then you’re in the right place. I’m glad you’re here.