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🍂NEW 6-week splits series: Sept. 2!

My September SPLITS series IS BACK, and we start on September 2nd. So, if you're an aerialist/poler/acrobat who wants to work on splits flexibility, but you don't have the attention span or time for hour-long flexibility classes... Hi, hello, you are in good company 🙋♀️ You're also exactly who I made this flexibility series for. Starting Tuesday, September 2nd, my new virtual flexibility series focuses on ALL THE SPLITS...with a heavy emphasis on ACTIVE FLEX work. And YES, we will be sticking...

🧡 Life, health, & business updates (psst - my blog is BACK!)

The past two years have been...a blur. I'm finally coming out of the haze that WAS 2023 to present, and figured that I would update y'all on a few Big Life Things now that the dust has settled. My Health Saga If you've been following me on social media over the past couple years, you've probably seen my (many) updates about my HEALTH. My partner and I moved from central Oregon to Portland at the end of 2023, which I was SO excited about: I love central Oregon, but I was really missing CIRCUS...

HURRAY! Dry needling available next week (Vancouver, WA only)

Hi friends, I'm coming atcha with TWO huge announcements: I have a NEW Location for in-person physical therapy: I'm now working out of Méraki Collective in downtown Vancouver, WA in addition to my Portland office at AWOL Dance Collective. Dry Needling Available NOW (Book here - Vancouver location only): Thanks to your advocacy for HB 3824B, dry needling is finally part of Oregon's PT scope (effective July 2027). Since Washington already allows this (and because I'm a licensed PT endorsed to...

Oregon: Help us pass the PT Modernization act (HB 3824)!

Great news: HB 3824B (The PT Modernization Act) just passed out of the Senate Health Care Committee! There were 4 “yes” votes and only one “no” vote. Here's what the amended bill does: Allows us to perform dry needling Enables us to certify disability placards for our patients Permits us to utilize sonographic equipment specifically for PT purposes without requiring additional licensing Establishes protection for the "DPT" credential, ensuring it remains exclusively for use by Doctors of...

🔎Is your psoas ACTUALLY tight?

Hear me out: your hip flexors MIGHT NOT be as tight as you think they are!Nerve tension SO frequently masquerades as muscle tension, especially with our hip flexors. And here’s the thing…if it IS femoral nerve tension that’s limiting your hip flexibility, stretching those hip flexors is NOT gonna get you where you’re tryna go. Nerves and muscles require COMPLETELY different types of drills to improve overall flexibility, so it’s definitely not a one size fits all situation…that’s where nerve...

End the Microbend: 4-week Masterclass 💪🤓

This course was held live in March 2025. If you'd like to purchase the recordings, click here! Whether you're working on aerial inversions, jumping or pressing into handstands, or aerial/pole flares, there's nothing quite as exasperating as watching your training footage and seeing that sneeeeaky little microbend creep into your skill. Aesthetically, we know that microbend is less than desirable. But the microbend is more than just a visual nuisance; it often presents itself as a symptom of a...

Splits Diagnostics Workshop 🤝 Fighting Fascism

This workshop was previously he'd in January 2025. If you'd like to purchase the recordings, click here! It's a terrifying time to be in the US right now, and it's hard not to feel helpless as I watch the government around me quickly transforming into a fascist dictatorship. In (what feels like) one fell swoop, this administration is demolishing decades of civil rights progress for the LGBTQ community, women, minorities, and immigrants. Like most of us, I've been feeling helpless and...

[Recording] Splits Diagnostics Workshop!

Splits Diagnostics: Buy the RECORDING of this 2 day workshop! 50% of the sales from this workshop recording will go to nonprofit organizations who are fighting against the Tr*mp administration: The ACLU, the Transgender Law Center, and other similar organizations fighting for civil rights that are currently on the chopping block. This 2-day workshop teaches students and coaches how to pragmatically self-assess the most common limiting factors in splits flexibility acquisition AND how to...

🎉January SPLITS series: next week!

This series was previously held in January 2025. If you'd like to purchase the 4-week series recordings, click here! Last month, I switched up my normal flexibility series format from teaching one class a week for 4 weeks to teaching TWO 30-minute classes per week...and y'all, it was SO MUCH FUN. I got great feedback from students about this format swap, because let's be honest...it's SO much easier to train consistently when you only have to carve out 30 minutes instead of a full hour! So...

4-week Backbend Series! ...PLUS, my "before & after" backbend progress...

BEFORE: 2014 AFTER: 2023 This series was previously held in December 2024. Click here to purchase the series recordings! Contrary to popular belief, my back is NOT naturally flexible - the first photo here is from 2014, when I first started working on backbends. I’ve had to fight tooth and nail for every degree of back flexibility, for MANY years. Honestly, backbend flexibility was one of my first performing arts brain puzzles that I worked through early on in my Cirque Physio years: I...

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