I began my somatics journey in fall 2014 at the beginning of my 4th year as an undergraduate Music Education and Trumpet Performance major at The Ohio State University, following a three-month summer drum corps season that wreaked havoc on my body. I learned in this semester-long course how the balance of my head on top of my spine affects not only the pain I felt in my neck and lower back, but in many other aspects of my overall being as well. My trumpet playing improved, my pain decreased, and my quality of life improved dramatically. 

After several years removed from the Alexander Technique, my pain returned, and I hit a "wall" in my progress as a trumpet player. I returned to the work in another Alexander Technique course during the final semester of my master's degree in Trumpet Performance at Indiana University in Spring 2018, where I became more deeply aware of the degree to which my own postural and movement habits held me back. Upon completing my formal education and spending two years teaching trumpet lessons full-time in Texas after that, I then fully realized the influence that this work has had on both my trumpet playing and teaching, and knew that it was my calling to move to Austin, TX, join a training course and learn how to teach FM Alexander's work to others.

Upon returning to Dallas, I began exploring new ways to teach the principles of the Alexander Technique to reach new audiences and lower the “barrier to entry” to those who are new to the practice. My goal as an educator is to help as many people experience ease and freedom in their everyday lives as possible, and Primitive Somatics is truly a reflection of my life’s work towards achieving that goal!