My Story

I’m a violinist, turned Hebrew professor, turned doula, turned biomechanics nerd. Although my first child arrived via a beautiful physiologic birth in 2012 (inspiring me to turn toward birth work), the pelvic floor dysfunction and pain that followed turned my world upside-down. Some of what I read tried to reassure me “This is normal. Happens to just about everyone.” That didn’t feel right to me. Other voices said, “Kegels are the answer.” Who, I wondered, was telling my great-great-great grandmothers to do 200 kegels a day?

Enter biomechanist Katy Bowman. I had read a lot of her work (and was totally drawn to her message that diverse natural movement is as important as food in the prevention and healing of pain and disease). But a few months after the birth I met with one of her certified Restorative Exercise Specialists, who in a single session knocked out most of my pain symptoms by teaching me a better way to stand. She taught me some whole-body corrective exercises to free up my pelvic floor, and finally I began to heal. Mind-blowing!

Years later, I completed my training as a Restorative Exercise Specialist, after already many years of helping my doula clients move and feel better. In the meantime I had also been fueling my passion for birth work, learning how to help my clients get truly evidence-based care, and teaching them how to prepare and trust their bodies in birth.

Today I feel so much joy in my body, and in supporting women through the whole-body, whole-heart transition of pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn life.

And I still love to fiddle.