Professional Experience

2006-present Double Spiral LLC Tucson, Arizona
STUDIO OWNER
Provides one on one Pilates based private lessons at her studio, Double Spiral, and works with all ages and fitness levels to promote healthy movement patterns, increased athletic performance, good posture and strong, agile, pain free bodies. Presents guest classes and healthy lifestyle sessions for clubs and groups interested in the healthy benefits of Pilates, dance and movement techniques.

1989-2008 Canyon Ranch Health Resorts, Tucson, Az. and Lenox, Mass.
DIRECTOR / MOVEMENT THERAPIST
Movement Therapy Director from 1996-2000, Wellness Education Director from 1995-96, Fitness Director 1989-1995. Responsibilities include program development, staff management, staff training, teaching, budgeting, planning committees, public relations and member of start up team for a new property.

1994-2005 Shape Magazine
CONTRIBUTING FITNESS EDITOR
Provided updates on fitness related information. Served as a program leader and developer for specialty programs Body Positive and Shape Your Life nationally and internationally.

1984-present
GUEST LECTURER / INSTRUCTOR
Presents lectures, workshops and classes for Shape Magazine, Canyon Ranch Health Resorts, Cunard Cruises Queen Mary 2, Pura Vida Yoga Retreat, Speaking of Women’s Health conferences, Weizmann Institute of Science, the University of Arizona, and American Dance Therapy Association. Also featured on local and national television programs and interviews in Shape, Elle, Vogue, Fitness, O Magazine, Prevention and Weight Watchers magazines.

Professional Memberships

2006 Pilates Method Alliance
2006 Gyrotonic Expansion System Certification
2002 American Dance Therapy Association
2000 N.I.A. Certification
1999 Friends of Carl Jung, Tucson, Arizona
1999 Pilates Certification-The Pilates Center Boulder, Colorado
1994 American College of Sports Medicine Certification

Publications and Videos

2001 Contributed a movement therapy chapter to the Canyon Ranch Guide to Living Younger Longer published by Simon and Schuster, Inc.
1998 Contributed a body-shaping chapter to The Female Body Owner’s Manual published by Rodale Press.
1994 Choreographed, co-wrote and hosted 3 videocassettes: The Spa Workout series produced by Venture Entertainment Group, Inc.
1994 Choreographed, wrote and hosted fitness breaks for educational documentary video Shape Up America produced by the National Exercise for Life Institute.

Education
M.A. in Dance/ Theater Arts; B.A. in English, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az.

references available upon request.

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