My interest in movement goes back to early childhood when I began training in ballet and tap at the age of seven. By age thirteen, my interest in body movement had transitioned to the Martial Arts.

Over the next seven years, I studied Japanese Karate and was involved with full-contact competition. Later, I studied Kung Fu for seven more years.

Eventually, my curiosity and enthusiasm in the study of body movement continued down a different avenue which led me to heavy weight training. Over time, while involved in these different activities, I accumulated many injuries.

My motivation to heal myself began 10 years ago. I was suffering from chronic back and neck pain, bilateral elbow and knee pain, and numerous complications from an abdominal surgery. I was unable to lift weights, run, or do anything that was physically demanding. As a matter of fact, it was even painful to sit for long periods of time. The compression in my body that I had acquired from all of the past injury patterns had severely limited the activities I could perform in my daily life.

Following a period as a patient of physical therapy, I perused Austin Community College's Physical Therapy Assistant Program and Massage School, and graduated from both programs in 1993. It was also in 1993 that I first met Judith Aston (founder of Aston-Patterning®, 1977); she had a two-day workshop which I attended. I then enrolled in her certification training, graduated and was certified in 1996.

Since 1993, I have applied Aston-Patterning® to physical therapy in hospitals and outpatient settings. Along with common orthopedic and neurological injuries, I have worked with world-class athletes and people dealing with fibromyalgia. At present, I have a small private practice in which I work under massage registration. I have also studied craniosacral therapy and visceral manipulation to adjunct my work.