Reembody-Certified Apprentices

Alex understands the importance of educated fitness instructors; after a deadlifting class with Reembody-Certified Practitioner Megan Ursin, he was hooked on the idea of pursuing the career himself...

Serena first encountered the Reembody Method at the Northwest Yoga Conference in 2017. As a massage therapist, yoga practitioner and Reembody-Certified Apprentice, Serena understands the value of seei...

Erin Eichenberger Newman has been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 2011 and is now studying to become a Personal Trainer to support her clients’ healing more effectively. She believes that stre...

Rachel grew up avoiding P.E. classes, favoring involvement with music and academics, but secretly wishing she had been a ballet kid or gymnastics kid. Finally, after finishing college at 19, she picke...

Kinya joined the Reembody Apprentice Program in 2019, and has been an active member in our community ever since. She owns and operates Reinhabit PLLC out of Seattle. For more information on Kinya and...

Charlotte Douglas joined the Reembody Apprentice Program in 2019, completing both Level 1 and Level 2 courses under Kevin Moore. She is certified through Yoga Alliance (RYT) as well as the Internation...

Amy Rose has been a massage therapist since 1997, and joined the Reembody Apprentice Program in November of 2019. She has worked in premier spas in the Portland area as well as with acupuncturists, na...

Gillian loves taking the intimidation out of exercise so her clients can enjoy life with more ease! As a body-positive, ACE certified personal trainer and Reembody Certified Apprentice, she offers tra...

Anne is an occupational therapist, certified yoga therapist, and owner/operator of Arise Therapeutics in Albuquerque, NM. She is an artist who became a wellness professional unexpectedly as a result o...

As a child, Tiffany always wanted to help people; this led her to a career in nursing, where she enjoyed the helping and connecting with people in crisis. However, Tiffany always felt limited in how m...

Brittany completed her Level I coursework (RCA-20) in January, 2019.

In her own words: I'm a wife, a mother of three, a business owner and dedicated yogi. I am passionate about helping people move and feel better through yoga therapy. I have over 14 years experience a...

When Heidi Matz, LMT, RCAP, first met Reembody-Certified Practitioner Megan Ursin, it changed her entire philosophy around her career, and the role she could take with her clients. She went from simpl...

Jordana is a tango instructor and author of Chronicles of the Unseen, a collection of philosophical essays. She prides herself on being a “traveling gypsy”; she calls both Berlin and San Fra...

Shawn lives in Braintree, Massachusetts, and spends his falls in Bulgaria and springs in Japan. He have a BS in sign language interpreting from Northeastern University, a ERYT-500 through Yoga Aliance...

Dawn understands that the body lets us know when things need to shift. She believes that change is always possible and that a simple awareness of the body's signals can be life-changing. Dawn is a...

Jennifer is a seasoned veteran of the fitness industry, with nearly two decades in health and wellness fields. She pursued this career out of a desire to help people feel more at home in their bodies...

Rachel’s work in Pure Resilience Yoga (PRY) lies in three primary areas. She works privately with people in pain, she runs a teacher training program, and she is a writer and sharer of her consta...

Brunella’s primary goal over her 22+ years in bodywork is simple: to leave her patients in a better place than she found them. Her defining moment was when she realized that her passion for helpi...

She first experienced the potential of yoga over 16 years ago when she decided to try something completely different from running. She became a Yoga Alliance certified teacher at the 200hr level in Ma...

"I believe that healing from pain and moving into great health requires a strong team effort," he says. "My job is ultimately to teach you how to feel and connect to your own body so you can be pain f...

She lives in Frankfurt, Germany.

By integrating yoga, massage and Reembody techniques, Leanne helps her clients reduce pain, increase mobility and stability in the body. Her goal is to get her clients back to doing what they love to...

Keddy, who had been plagued by a reoccurring knee injury, no longer suffers from the sports-related pain. “I was kind of struggling with this ongoing sports injury that would disappear and com...

As a musician, Althea had a lot of injuries and pain that gave her serious doubts about the quality of movement she was using to make music. In her professional work, she found a shocking number of pe...

She came to this position from her tenure as Concertmaster of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra (USA). An experienced leader, Amelia has worked in such capacity under the baton of renowned conducto...

Michele hails from Washington State, just outside Seattle. In 1981, a friend invited her to an aerobics class—and she was hooked. She has devoted her life since then to the pursuit of all things...

Sharyl knows, firsthand, the power of a functional movement practice. "As someone who has lived with debilitating pain, I understand how challenging it is to not move or feel the way you want to," she...

She lives in Kelowna, BC, with her husband Duncan, to whom she has been married for over 40 years. We are honored to have Debbie among our merry band of body nerds!

Tam did not identify as "athletic" until well into her adulthood. She eventually found fitness - specifically Pilates - through its use in her own injury recovery. (She suffered from herniated discs...

Anneke completed the RCA-20 in Zurich in 2018. She lives in Belgium, where she is an avid fencer.

A new pathway opened up for Julie when she began practicing yoga. With kids and a career to balance, yoga introduced a feeling of competence—and calm—that spilled into other areas of her lif...

Katherine Kozioziemski is a yoga & mindbody coach who specializes in helping hardworking people dial down stress and anxiety.  She’s been practicing and teaching yoga for over 20 years with ov...

For as long as she can remember, Roxanne has had an intrinsic fascination with pain: where does it come from, why do we have itn and how do we create positive change from it? Roxanne has spent years s...

Ele’s teaching style is an adaptive Vinyasa Yoga which accommodates chronic conditions and special populations. She believes Yoga is a life practice that provides a mechanism for healing, freedom...

Dawn is founder and owner of Free Range Yoga and Community Wellness Center. As a Yoga Therapist, yoga teacher and Reembody-Certified Apprentice, Dawn helps her clients create strength, balance, flexib...

For the past fifteen years, Julie has led her own eponymous own New-York based quintet, performing her original jazz music in and around the New York area, and in Canada. In 2006, Julie started the Co...

Dan found his way to a career in health and wellness through personal struggle with scoliosis and chronic back pain. He envisioned being a new kind of practitioner: one who helps clients understand th...

Jenny discovered a penchant for physical activity from an early age; her childhood routine included gymnastics, diving and competitive soccer. As a teenager she “basically lived” at the YMCA...

Megan is a lifelong athlete and lover of physical movement. She grew up playing competitive sports and was honored to play Division 1 Women’s soccer at Loyola University of Chicago. Megan continu...

Megan considers herself a teacher, first and foremost; drawing from firsthand experiences with obesity and disordered eating, she has developed an exceptionally sensitive approach in her teaching styl...

As a lifelong Portlander (with a brief stint in the Navy), Phil Adler is the face of consistency and strength. He has been a personal trainer for over 8 years, but a coach for his entire adult life; h...

Sabrina Hickerson dealt with depression starting in childhood. A chubby kid, she was often teased and would often fake injuries to get out of PE class. In her late 20s she began the process of recover...

Paula found the Reembody Method in seeking cessation of her own physical pain. After years of "trying everything," she found Reembody to be the only approach that could work for her. As an avid suppor...

When you ask him to tell his story, Marco cuts right to the case: "Exercise saved my life." He was never the biggest or fastest kid in school; he was bullied for a long time and affected his self-conf...

Originally from Ashland, Oregon, Carrie Wallace is an Oregon native who now calls Portland home. During a challenging time in her life, Carrie discovered that strength training could help her find her...

"My first in-person session with Kevin was nothing short of miraculous," he says. "It was not until discovering Reembody that I felt, for the first time, that my body could heal." Max moved from As...

Tony Angellilli (nee Cibik) grew up in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied Architecture and Design, and came to Portland, Oregon eight years ago. At first, his interest in fitness was purely...

In 2012, Carrie Craven decided to pursue a career in health & wellness after overcoming her own struggles with weight loss and recurrent injuries. She discovered the Reembody Method in 2016, certif...

Dr. Akin practices by treating the whole person and the cause of disease, though her medical practice has two main areas of focus. The first of which is musculoskeletal pain. Using a functional moveme...

Beck (he/him, they/them) has a coaching style that is gentle, respectful, embodiment-focused and trauma-informed. He believes that fitness can help people become more connected to the bodies they have...

Izarra's active childhood included everything from juggling and unicycling to competitive gymnastics and diving. In her adolescence, her intellectual pursuits overtook her physical ones, however, and...

After a Reembody-Certified Apprentice helped her improve her weightlifting practice using Reembody techniques, Angela wanted to learn more. She took the RCA-20 in 2018, and returned to audit the cours...

Milton Monson grew up in Casper, Wyoming, but has called Salt Lake City, Utah, his home since 2002. Over the years, Milton’s motivation for health changed from wanting to have a magazine-co...

Shoulder and back injuries in college led Nik to believe that his physical activity was to be limited for the rest of his life—until he discovered the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education...

Trenton's fitness philosophy is founded on the concept that everybody deserves to move pain-free; his thoughtful yoga and movement classes are grounded in compassion and genuine care. Trenton hopes to...

James has lived in Seattle since the early 90s, but grew up in Chicago in a hundred-year-old house. He spent a few years in New Haven Connecticut working in a custom furniture shop, and spent a year i...

Kim Kommers grew up in Southern California, but she has called Seattle her home for more than three decades. As she was getting older, starting in her early 30s, various problems began to manifest...

Larra came to massage after many years of receiving bodywork and finding the freedom in her own body after recovering from an illness that required her to learn to walk and speak clearly again. Since...

Taylor discovered the Reembody Method at a yoga conference in 2017. She found the approach adaptive, empirically grounded, and easily integrated into her yoga practice (both as a student and a teacher...

Sue completed the RCA-20 in 2018 as part of her Functional Synergy course, which allowed her to expand her knowledge of anatomy, movement, energy, body systems, nervous system regulation and much more...

Colleen can't sit still. She is also easily distracted. Over the course of her life she has participated in everything from sandlot baseball and horseback riding to strength training and Jazzercise...

Clay grew up in Texarkana, Texas, and have now resided in Clearwater, Florida for two years. He has been attending school and getting exposure to the health and wellness industry for 2 years. Chron...

Maelon has been practicing holistic massage and skincare for over two decades. She has worked in a wide range of settings, including five-star spas, medical environments, and private practice. At Root...

Vonie always loved working out, but started taking group fitness classes regularly after her son was born. She became hooked and wanted to teach, and thus her career in fitness began. In her forties...

She completed the RCAP (Level II) in November 2018 and is a certified yoga therapist though Functional Synergy.

Karin combines over tens years' experience teaching Taiji & Qigong with the brilliance of the MELT Method to provide clients and students with many options to make their daily living more comfortable...

In 2018, shortly after completing the RCA-20 in Switzerland, Daniela completed a Masters degree with a specialization in professional sports at the Swiss Federal University in Magglingen, where she wo...

A lifelong learner and gifted athlete, Sandro recently put his Reembody knowledge to the test to max out his single-leg deadlift at over 170 kilograms (374 pounds!). By day, Sandro is the Digital Mark...