Movement
Movement as Medicine. Movement as Presence. Movement as Home.
Long before I became a practitioner of Chinese Medicine, movement was my first teacher. It taught me how emotion lives in the body. How stress takes shape. How breath transforms the nervous system. How strength and softness coexist.
How presence begins with awareness of what we feel,not what we think.
Today, as a Barre3 instructor, movement continues to be an essential part of my work and my personal healing practice. It is another way I help people reconnect with themselves, release stagnation, and build resilience from the inside out.
My journey with barre3
Barre3 became part of my life long before I ever taught it, and long before I understood just how deeply movement and healing were intertwined. What first drew me in was its simplicity— the way a class could meet me exactly where I was, whether energized, overwhelmed, or somewhere in between. But what kept me coming back was something harder to name: the sense that movement could be a doorway back into myself.
Barre3 taught me that strength and presence aren’t opposites. That grounding comes from feeling your feet on the floor, your breath moving through your ribs, your body softening into awareness rather than pushing past it. It showed me that the body is always telling a story, through tension, through breath, through fatigue, through resilience, and that movement is one of the most profound ways to listen.
As I deepened my work in Chinese Medicine, I realized what Barre3 had been teaching me all along: movement is medicine. It shifts stagnation, supports emotional processing, regulates the nervous system, and reconnects us to the rhythms we so often override in daily life. It strengthens without depleting. It clears without collapsing. It brings us back into conversation with our bodies in a way that feels grounding, energizing, and deeply human.
This is why I teach. Because movement is not just about muscles or endurance, it’s about presence. It’s about creating space inside the body for clarity, breath, and steadiness. It’s about remembering that strength is not something we perform, but something we feel.
And Barre3, more than any movement modality I’ve practiced, holds that truth at its center:
that movement should support you, not consume you; that embodiment is a practice, not a performance; and that coming home to your body is one of the most powerful forms of healing there is.
