My Story
My foundation is biology. My practice is breath. My path has been learning to listen to both.
Long before I understood the science of bone remodeling, I understood the body's language. Two decades on the yoga mat- teaching, practicing, and sitting in stillness- taught me that the breath is not just a stress response. It is a direct line to the nervous system, to cellular health, and to the kind of deep physiological calm that allows healing to happen. Breath isn't something I teach on top of everything else. It runs underneath all of it.
When I moved through my own menopause transition, something clarified. The body I had spent years learning to listen to was asking for something new, not more effort, but deeper understanding. After my own osteopenia diagnosis, I didn't just want to manage bone loss. I wanted to understand why it was happening, get to the root causes, and address them directly. Within two to three years, I had reversed my osteopenia to normal bone density. That experience changed everything about how I work.
Midlife, I discovered, isn't a time to retreat. It's a time to remodel your foundation, and I know firsthand that it's possible.
My Mission
What I Bring to Our Work Together
The science — bone physiology, hormonal shifts, the mechanisms behind bone density loss and how to influence them through lifestyle.
The soma — 20 years of yoga, meditation, and breathwork. The nervous system governs everything and a regulated, breathing body is a body that can heal.
The lived experience — I have navigated this transition myself. I know what it feels like when your body shifts beneath you, and I know what it looks like to move through that with clarity and agency rather than fear.
Together, these are not three separate things. They are one conversation.
This is guidance for real bodies, real lives, and real, lasting change
Credentials
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Bachelors of Science in Biology- Rutgers University, NJ
Certified Integrative Bone Health Practitioner (CIBHP)- The Bone Health Academy with Dr. Kim Millman, MD, PhD and Margie Bissinger, PT, OPT
National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)
Certified Health Coach- Institute of Integrative Nutrition
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Low Pressure Fitness -Certified
LPF offers a unique, effective, and safe way to improve and strengthen your core and postural muscles while enhancing breathing, pelvic floor stability, flexibility, and mobility.Low Pressure Fitness is a unique and comprehensive system of movement and postural exercises that improve coordination of breathing and deep core muscle stabilizers. The poses incorporate hypopressive techniques to reduce pressure through the core and pelvic floor as well as improving posture, myofascial and neurodynamic mobility.
Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher- E-RYT 200
Over 20 years of training and practicing with internationally-renowned yoga teachers and mentors, Sue Elkind and Naime Jezzeny
Workshops and Continuing Education
Yoga for Injury Prevention with Naime Jezzeny
Meditation Immersions with Sue Elkind
Bringing Ayurveda to Your Mat with Jeanne-Marie Derrick
Healthy Backs with Naime Jezzeny
Anatomy, Biomechanics & Corrective Exercises with Naime Jezzeny
Yoga Biomechanics & the Science of Stretchingwith Jules Mitchell
