Your body is art, your movement is art. Your lifestyle is art.
Manual Therapy and movement coaching so you can start feeling better today (and for the next 50 years).
THE TALLY
"This is just how it is now" is almost never true.
Even if…
THINGS YOU’VE ALREADY TRIED
You did the PT. They handed you six exercises on your way out the door and you weren't sure you were doing any of them right.
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You tried the muscle relaxers. They worked… as long as you don’t mind not feeling anything.
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You booked a massage because you needed one, and left feeling like you'd been politely petted for an hour.
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You went to yoga and spent the whole hour wondering whether you were helping your shoulder or making it worse.
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You want to weed the yard. You like weeding the yard. You just can't do it anymore without paying for it the next day.
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The thing that’s really starting to worry you is that the list of things you've stopped doing gets longer every year, and you're not sure where it ends.
WHAT COULD CHANGE
What if movement was enjoyable (not a chore!)? Imagine:
You carry the water jug in from the car. You're halfway to the kitchen before you realize you didn't brace for it.
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You get down on the floor with the grandkids and, more to the point, can get back up.
You try something new with your body without assuming you'll hurt yourself doing it.
Something twinges, and instead of bracing for a bad week, you know exactly which stretch to do (because I’ve taught you!) and it works within minutes.
You sleep through the night without having to reposition yourself every time your shoulder aches.
You find a way of moving that feels so good, you stop having to convince yourself to do it.
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I was back to normal much faster than expected. Highly recommend Esther to anyone looking for a skilled and caring massage therapist!
- JAIME
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
If there were a formula for the body, the first doctor would have worked.
Your body is a compilation of your history, your job, your age, the injury from your twenties that seems to be flaring up more and more. There’s no one perfect answer, which is why everything I do is custom — whether that’s hands-on bodywork in the studio, nervous system education, or virtual movement assessment and coaching from wherever you are in the world.
WHO YOU’RE WORKING WITH
My purpose isn’t to rescue you from your body. It’s to help you understand it well enough that you can trust yourself again.
I’m familiar with injury. It ended a competitive running streak. It took a year away from aerial training. It left me unable to climb the stairs to my apartment.
Somewhere in there I stopped treating pain as something to ignore or push through, and started learning its language instead. So I won't ask you to disconnect from your body or override what it's telling you. Rather, we'll listen to it with curiosity instead of finality.
That’ll make all the difference.
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I've gone to a number of massage therapists in the past and really didn't feel like I got anything out of it, other than momentary comfort. Esther was different. The first question out of her mouth every time we meet is 'What's bothering you?' She's quite good at identifying issues and then arriving at concrete approaches.
- KEITH K.
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I write and dance about bodies: how we break, how we repair, what the lesson is, and what to actually do about the thing that's been bugging you for two years.