Professional Trainer 
Holistic Health Practitioner
What Do I Do?
Basically, I coach students on achieving their goals of health & performance through the expression of their genetic strengths & the suppression of their genetic weaknesses. By providing each student with the correct information (food, exercise, sleep etc) and incorporating this with a evidence-based functional diagnostic testing protocol offers a better opportunity for fulfilling their genetic potential.
My students come from all walks of life - business executives, mothers, athletes, metabolically-challenged, children, super-seniors, cancer, entertainment, transplant recipients, wheel-chair. I feel a vast sense of experience and communication is as important, if not more than the knowledge one may possess. Especially when it concerns changes - specifically behaviour and choice.
Why ELDOA?
In the last three years my passion has been teaching ELDOA, yoga for the spine. I had known of ELDOA for two years previously and even practised it on a semi-regular basis. It was not until I had a sky-diving accident at the beginning of 2008 that I became more serious about ELDOA. To say the least I had accrued a myriad of musculo-skeletal issues from the accident. I tried a variety of therapies - chiropractic, physical therapy with minimal progress. It was not until I began practising ELDOA twice-daily that progress, in the form of pain relief, was made. ELDOA became the primary therapy in my successful rehabilitation.
I was so impressed with ELDOA I began studying the program. I then implemented ELDOA into my private practice. At the time I was working extensively with competitive athletes (boxers, MMA, football). All of these athletes had chronic back and neck pain. And like me, they had all tried other therapies to no avail. Shortly after they began the ELDOA program, it was common to get feedback from them stating the relief of their back-neck-hip-other joint pain. In many cases there was complete resolution of pain. Other improvements (measured and subjective) were seen in postural changes, athletic performance, overall pain, sleeping patterns, core strength, balance & control. The list goes on.
Like my students past and present I was sold on ELDOA.
I moved from Los Angeles to Central Oregon in April of 2010. I set up my practice, located at NorthWest Crossing, Bend.
Qualifications
Professional (1985-2011):
26 years experience - Professional Trainer/Coach & Holistic Health Practitioner
Recreation)
Lifestyle Coach Level I-III, CHEK Level I)
Physical: