Kerry’s journey with mindful movement and its healing power
began at an early age. Kerry was an elite, competitive gymnast. At
a young age, she suffered severe injuries to her back and knee,
simultaneously ending her gymnastics career and beginning a
lifelong quest to move without pain. She began a journey through
different mindful movement techniques: Alexander Technique,
Feldenkrais, Yoga Nidra, Swedish Body Work, and Acupuncture.
Each of these helped improve her understanding of anatomy,
kinesiology, organic movement and alignment but were all lacking a
component to tone and strengthen muscles. She continued searching
for a comprehensive mindful movement program that focused on
alignment and proper form that would simultaneously strengthen and
stretch muscles. At the age of 20, she was diagnosed with Lupus,
and needed to find a serious form of exercise without impact that
combined both strength and flexibility. She eventually found her
way to classical Pilates and trained under Romana Krysanowska, a
protégé of Joseph Pilates and opened, bodyscape a Pilates
studio offering individual instruction in classical Pilates.
Classical Pilates helped her live pain free for many years. In
2003, she took her first Bikram Yoga class and loved the way moving
in a heated room made her feel. Bikram Yoga and Pilates have a
great deal in common in balancing out the body and the spine with
movements that complement one another, never repetitively overusing
the same groups. The addition of heat was incredibly helpful for
the circulatory and soft connective tissue issues associated with
lupus.
She believed so much in how Pilates and Bikram Yoga helped keep
her able to walk, dance, and move freely despite serious injuries
and a chronic disease. Kerry wanted to learn more about them and
use them as a vehicle to help others in their movement journey to
achieve their individual goals to feel better, offset the abuse the
body takes from everyday life and was blessed to be able to build a
career around mindful movement, sharing her experience using it to
help others.
Kerry’s interests include alignment, breath, balance, organic
movement and helping people use their core muscles to help find
smaller muscle groups in order to not overuse larger muscle groups.
She enjoys helping others explore and learn about their bodies and
movement habits and help them to achieve better physical and mental
balance and avoid physical injury. She loves hearing students’
journeys and triumphs as they discover new ways to move and heal
their bodies. She is certified in Classical Pilates (1999),
Yoga Nidra (2003), Bikram Yoga (2012), MELT: hands and feet (2015)
and Yin Yoga (2019). She enjoys answering questions and
individually assisting students in finding new ways to move.
