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01/03/2025

Peri/Post Menopausal clients and friends who may want some additional support, tools, and connection to a PT I admire greatly to help navigate any challenges you may be facing during this time of transition- come to Fawn Coussens of Kinetic Physical Therapy's upcoming Peri/Post Menopausal Workshop on Wednesday, 1/29/25 at 6pm. I'll be there too! More info and how to register in the shared post below.

While I provide pelvic floor education, support, and manual therapy for my clients of all genders, I don't do internal pelvic work and love partnering with physical therapists who do. Plus we all are better as a community as we have different tools and lenses to look through- so I am grateful for this community opportunity and to be a part of it too as a learner (help for me and more tools for my toolbox to help clients!)

A local, Physical Therapist owned, private practice located in West Seattle

10/25/2024

Grateful to work with so many incredible people! Grateful too for a client testimonial written via my credit card processing software. It's love how empowered this client writes- such an honor and joy to work with them.

06/02/2024

Celebrating the beautiful diversity of our local community; happy PRIDE month to my q***r friends, neighbors, and clients! You can always count on me as an ally and my office as a safe space.

03/14/2024

Calling all Performing Artists: there are still spots at this month's free Seattle Dance and Performing Arts Medicine Clinic on Sunday, March 24th! I am not volunteering this month but so many of my talented colleagues will be there to help!

About the clinic:
We welcome dancers and performing artists of all genres and abilities to schedule an appointment in our SeaPAM Free Clinic. The clinic is designed to assist with diagnosis of injuries in dancers and performing artists who are uninsured (or underinsured), but all are welcome. We take a team-based approach in caring for the local artist community, and understand the complex needs of injured performing artists. We will do our best to address all your needs in clinic, but can also assist with referrals, if necessary.

Appointments are available for our next SeaPAM FREE Clinic on Sunday, March 24th, 2024! Spread the word! - https://mailchi.mp/4b9ee3eaa6e8/seapam-free-clinic-appointments-available-16055680

12/02/2023

Next Saturday I’ve got my first dance performance in 26 years! I’m having a wonderful time tap dancing again- such joy to be together with others moving and feeling alive on such in such a primal way.

This is a fund raiser for the studio, Northwest Tap Connection (Official). If you’d like to support the work this studio does for the arts and its community but can’t come, please consider a donation. Quick 3-minute video peek into this organization: https://youtu.be/QhzY9aRWc4s?si=X7wO65qktHciNDA-

From the studio owner:

“Northwest Tap Connection’s performance of “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing” is designed to educate and enlighten observers about the “Black Experience and the direct link of Music, Song, and Dance” used for Healing, Celebration, Education, and Protest. The experience highlights the strong bonds of African based Celebrations of Congo Square, Plantation Living, Black Church, Juke and Dance Halls, Block Parties and the influence of the Apollo Theatre and Soul Train.

VIP Tickets on Friday and Saturday are inclusive of the Performance, and entry to the VIP Receptions and Cultural Education Exhibit. VIP Tickets serves as a fundraiser for the Northwest Tap Connection Close the Gap Scholarship. The Goal for the 2024 Close the Gap Campaign is $250.000.00. Close the Gap provides scholarships for classes and travel opportunities to underserved communities.

Northwest Tap Connection’s contribution to Seattle’s Art, Cultural, and Education communities as well as the global tap dance family will be included by performances and inspirations from former Students and Instructors. The Cultural Exhibit will include pictures, video footage, and artifacts designed to educate and enlighten observers about the “Black Experience of Music, Song, and Dance” and is
directly linked to the Performance - Hard Times Require Furious Dancing.”

10/31/2023

A picture is worth a thousand words. Oh and I love the words here from Dr. Rolf too: "Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as unflattering contour of their body, others as a constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over 40 may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem, so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance. They are at war with gravity." - Dr. Ida. P. Rolf, PhD

10/11/2023

The next Seattle Dance and Performing Artists FREE clinic is Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. I will be there volunteering with my inspiring and wonderful colleagues- please help spread the word and sign up if this feels like a good fit for you and you'd like some help!

Our next SeaPAM FREE Clinic will be held on Sunday, October 22nd, 2023. Sign up now! - https://mailchi.mp/7abe12fbca4b/seapam-free-clinic-appointments-available-15795056

04/20/2023

09/10/2022

This Is so fun and very cool!

01/09/2022

THE CURE by Albert Huffstickler

"We think we get over things.
We don't "get over" things.
Or say, we get over the measles
but not a broken heart.
We need to make that distinction.
The things that become part of our experience
never become less a part of our experience.
How can I say it?
The way to "get over" a life is to die.
Short of that, you move with it,
let the pain be pain,
not in the hope that it will vanish
but in the faith that it will fit in,
find its place in the shape of things
and be then not any less pain but true to form.
Because anything natural has an inherent shape
and will flow towards it.
And a life is as natural as a leaf.
That's what we're looking for:
not the end of a thing but the shape of it.
Wisdom is seeing the shape of your life
without obliterating (getting over) a single instant."

If this resonates with you, I'd love to work together with you to explore your wholeness of being, all parts and experiences of you.

09/27/2021

Lovely spotlight piece written about Dr. Ida Pauline Rolf as featured in her undergrad's alma mater, Barnard College.

The distinguished alumna’s work in science and wellness continues to inspire practitioners across the country and around the world.

08/21/2021

Some clients have asked me about the N95 respirators I've worn the past few months as they like the fit. They fit my face shape super well, with a nice snug fit. Sharing the link to where you can buy them locally (Home Depot) that I know- surely can find them elsewhere. I am not suggesting these but enough have asked that I thought it could be helpful to some:

3M Aura Particulate Respirator 9205+ is an N95 disposable particulate respirator that is designed to help provide respiratory protection of at least 95 percent filtration efficiency against certain non-oil