About

I took my first Pilates class in 1999. It was not love at first teaser — I quit almost immediately. Then in 2002 I was diagnosed with MS, lost running, and my doctor suggested yoga or Pilates. I did a lot of yoga, kept injuring my shoulder, and came back to Pilates to fix what yoga kept breaking. This time it stuck.

I started teaching in 2003, built my own method (Fuse Pilates) by 2005, and opened my first studio in 2010. In 2013, a teacher I admire asked me to build the first course on Pilates for neurological conditions. It's been quietly rewiring how I think ever since, and I've taught it around the world.

My credentials are the usual stack of certifications — Power Pilates, Balanced Body, a comprehensive BASI cert — plus a three-year mentorship with the late Julian Littleford. And then there’s one I didn't sign up for: I've had MS for most of my adult life and have personally met nearly every symptom in the catalog. Best training I've ever had. Also my least favorite. So, I topped that off with obsessively learning about the nervous system and biomechanics.

I've worked with relapsing-remitting and progressive MS, stroke, Parkinson's, ALS, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, and spinal cord injury — and, for contrast, Navy SEALs, former Olympians, and people who mostly just wanted to do a handstand. I invented a patented piece of apparatus (the Fuse Ladder), have taught on Pilates Anytime since 2013, sold my studio to a favorite student in 2020, and eventually moved to Malta in 2025.

Off the clock: dog mom of two very loud Alaskan Klee Kai, 100-plus books a year, a patient husband, a Netflix habit, a devotee of halloumi and most things crunchy, and a dual U.S.–Dutch citizen.