About Coaching & Mentoring
Many people have heard of coaching but aren't quite sure what a coach actually does. At its core, coaching is a collaborative process that helps you gain clarity, navigate challenges, and move toward meaningful goals. Rather than giving advice or telling you what to do, a coach asks thoughtful questions, offers perspective, and helps you uncover your own solutions.
Mentoring adds another dimension. As a mentor, I may also share relevant knowledge, practical tools, personal experience, or resources that can support your journey when appropriate.
Together, coaching and mentoring create a supportive partnership that helps you move forward with greater confidence, self-awareness, and intention.
What Coaching and Mentoring is not
A coach is not a therapist and does not substitute for treatment, where a diagnosis and treatment are required. While a coach may help to reflect on patterns in behavior rooted in past experiences, the focus is on the present and how to move forward, with the understanding that there is a willingness to make some concrete changes.
Having said that, the coaching relationship can indeed be a deeply healing experience, releasing inner obstacles, offering new perspectives and insights, always empowering the client and highlighting their own inner capacities and potential.
What is Holistic Coaching?
The Holistic perspective recognizes that every aspect of life is connected. Our physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, beliefs, habits, values, and sense of purpose all influence one another, so we address our coaching topics at each of these levels, at the levels of body, mind, and spirit.
Holistic Coaching philosophy says that having optimal mind-body-spirit health internally, creates optimal potential externally, and we apply this perspective to the whole coaching process.
Clarity for decision-making, freedom from indecision.
Freedom from procrastination and self-doubt.
A renewed sense of self-worth, purpose, and inner peace.
Tools for cultivating healthier relationships, setting boundaries, and thriving through transitions.
A deeper connection to your authentic self and life’s possibilities.
Benefits of Coaching & Mentoring
The satisfaction of taking charge of your own life
Realizing you are not as much of a victim as you thought, which brings freedom
Gaining, or re-gaining a sense of self-worth, a higher perspective, a deeper sense of life and love.
Freedom from fear, judgment.
What the research says
99%
96%
would repeat the process.
of individuals and companies who hire a coach are “satisfied” or “very satisfied."
73%
80%
51%
of coaching clients say that coaching helps them improve their relationships, work/life balance, and wellness.
of coaching clients say that they improved their self-esteem or self-confidence thanks to coaching.
of companies with a strong coaching culture have higher revenues than other companies in their industry.
According to ICF Global Coaching Client Study and Human Capital Institute.
About The Pilates Method
Pilates was developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates, a German-born fitness pioneer who called his system "Contrology" — the conscious control of movement to unite body, mind, and spirit. He began shaping the method during World War I, using rigged bed springs to create the earliest versions of the resistance apparatus still used today. After settling in New York in the 1920s, he and his wife Clara opened a studio that drew dancers and athletes to a method built on core strength, alignment, and precise, controlled movement.
The method rests on a set of guiding principles — core control, concentration, elongation, precision, breath, and flow — that train the body and mind as an integrated system rather than isolating individual muscles. Sessions combine mat-based work using body weight with apparatus work — the Reformer, Cadillac, Wunda Chair, and Barrels — which use spring resistance to support, challenge, and refine each movement.
Classical Pilates follows Joseph Pilates' original exercises, order, and apparatus design, typically passed down through his direct students and their lineage of teachers. It moves through a set sequence designed to build strength, flexibility, and control cumulatively, both within a session and over time.
Contemporary Pilates has since evolved to draw on physical therapy and biomechanics research, adapting sequences, order, and props more freely to an individual's goals or rehabilitation needs.
My focus is on Classical Pilates, always adapting to individual needs, whether to modify or challenge as needed, using props and other tools. My focus is on the principles themselves — core control, alignment, elongation, concentration, flow, and breath — with close attention to correcting movement in detail, so each exercise is done with real precision rather than just completed.
Builds core strength and postural stability
Improves flexibility and joint mobility
Enhances body awareness, alignment, and posture
Develops balanced, even muscle strength
Reduces injury risk through controlled, low-impact movement
"You are only as young as your spine is flexible."
- Joseph H. Pilates
Supports rehabilitation and relief from chronic pain, including back pain
Improves balance and coordination
Strengthens the mind-body connection through breath-linked focus
Adaptable across fitness levels and ages
Classical Pilates
About me
During my twenty plus years as a movement teacher (dance, Pilates and Yoga), and massage therapist, I was always curious about what motivates people and what holds them back from living fulfilling lives. In my work, I enjoyed the deeper conversations with my clients—helping them identify their unique paths to happiness and authenticity, back to themselves.
This, along with my personal experiences, including burnout, divorce, parenting, and cross-cultural life transitions, inspired me to expand my focus on healing disciplines by formally train as Holistic Coach.
Today, I offer my services as a Holistic Coach, Mentor, and Teacher, leveraging my 20-plus year professional background in the wellness industry, and my personal healing experience, to support individuals in creating strategies for balance, self-care, and healing in their lives.
With roots in Yoga, 12-step recovery, Ayurveda, and spirituality, I combine Eastern and Western teachings and a passion for healthy relationships and living, healing from burnout, and integrating spirituality into all aspects of life.
My work includes online coaching, group facilitation and workshops at retreats and in-person Pilates lessons. I also enjoy collaborating with professionals in related fields at retreats, trainings and events.
I believe that even in difficult circumstances, we often have more inner resources, resilience, and choice than we realize. My mission is to support people in connecting (or re-connecting) with their authentic Self, their Joy, Peace, Truth, and Love and to help them move toward their goals, courageously stepping into who they really are.
"Perhaps love is the process of my gently leading you back to yourself. Not to whom I want you to be, but to who you are."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My sessions are a blend of coaching and mentoring, meeting the client where they are at, where I will leverage my professional skills and personal experience for gentle inquiry and challenge, offering practical tools and exercises blending Eastern and Western models and teachings for healing and growth. Regardless of what the client brings forward, I offer a collaborative, non-judgmental space in which to explore desires, motivations and a path forward.
I offer a compassionate and practical perspective to help you thrive, in a process that is tailored to your unique path, whether you need structured coaching, spiritual guidance, or simply a supportive space to rediscover yourself.
It is not important which particular belief or philosophy you come with, or if you come with none. It is important to come with an open heart, an open mind and willingness to explore whatever your inner truth is.
Is Coaching Right for Me?
If you...
...feel stuck or overwhelmed.
...are facing a major life transition or decision.
...are recovering from burnout.
...are rebuilding after a difficult relationship.
...want support creating healthier habits and boundaries.
...are seeking more meaning, balance, or direction.
If you nodded yes to any of the above, coaching may be a helpful next step.
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