I’m a geek when it comes to physical improvement

Clients inspired me to start SmartBody50 after years of watching adults 50+ deal with limits in balance, posture, and everyday movement, that can often be improved.

None of us move like we did when we were 25 or 35. Wear from the years, past injuries and aches all play a part. What my clients discover is that “You are how you move” – and how you move can be learned.

My turning point came in 1993, when I found the Feldenkrais Method. Julius Erving, “Dr. J” of the 1970s Philadelphia 76ers, used it to stay at the top of his game as he got older. I spent the next four years completing the first Feldenkrais training on the East Coast.

Since then, I’ve combined Feldenkrais with my Physical therapy work, which now spans over 40 years. I found it was the most direct way to help people get back what they needed to stay active, and it became the foundation for every exercise I gave. After decades of this consistent practice, I decided to turn the most useful core life skills for people 50+ into an online learning platform, organized two ways:

tARGET Series & FOUNDATION Topics

Target Series, for a specific concern like your back or balance, and Foundation Topics, for the core skills behind everyday movement.

My hope is that you will find these videos to be a helpful entry point to develop the awareness and skill to improve your own body’s physical abilities, in ways important to you.

I’ve had to use these skills myself, after a fall that broke my wrist and, more recently, a bad hip injury.

I’ll speak for myself, and this may resonate for some – “It’s hard to fully recognize changes in our physical abilities.” It’s easy to assume we’re too old to improve – or, in my case, that my body could do more than it really could. I suffered a serious hip injury from doing something I thought my body could do. Then, in my later 50’s, a “clumsy” fall caused a bad wrist fracture that kept me from working for six months. Both times, I had to apply the principles and skills I teach, with the patience it takes to rebuild the resilience I’d lost.

Now, I practice these smarter steps more consistently for myself.

SmartBody50 isn’t meant to replace other health & fitness options that work or you enjoy. What it does is show you where your body is losing ground and give you direct, practical steps to improve it.

It starts with noticing how you actually move. That awareness is what lets the steps I give you take hold. When you can feel what you’re doing, you can change it, and that change, with practice, can last … instead of watching it fade. As your coach, I show you what to do and explain why it helps, so you keep building physical abilities in the years ahead.

As I often say: your body got you this far in life. Why not give it a chance to improve and regain what matters most for your independence?

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PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Pain Relief Therapy, Inc – Owner of successful PT Clinic treating chronic pain conditions and degenerative painful diagnoses

Awarded one of the first advanced specialty certifications in Orthopedic Physical Therapy

4 – year training and certification in the Feldenkrais Method

2,500+  post graduate training hours in evidence based movement science 

Master Clinician in Physical Therapy

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

“The Physical Therapy Expert to Determine Legitimate Physical Limits from Pain”, Dispute Resolution Institute

“Novel Approach for Balance and Movement Disorders”, Bryn Mawr Rehab

“Everyday Improvement for your Clients”, Cortiva University Massage School

GUEST SPEAKER

For Professionals

“The Physical Therapist as an Independent Expert”, The Delaware County Lawyer’s Association

“The Role of a Physical Therapist”, The Delaware County Chamber of Commerce

“Application of Awareness through Movement Lessons:”, Regional Occupational Therapy Association

Stress & Pain

“How to Reduce Strain and Pain with Chronic Pain”, Springhaven Center

“Awareness in Everyday Body Use Habits to Reduce Strain and Pain”, Fibromyalgia local chapter

“Reducing Physical Stress at Work”, health practitioners at Springhaven Center

Improve Movement Habits

Better Body Through Better Habits”, Beaumont Retirement Community

“Dynamic Sitting Posture and Exercises to do at your Office”, Spring haven Corporate

“Dynamic Posture and Body Use for a Healthier Spine”, Chiropractic centers​

Group Coaching Sessions

Movement Habits for an Active Lifestyle” – 6-week class, Main Line School Night

 “Reduce Physical Signs & Symptoms of Aging & More”, 6-week class. Main Line School Night

“Body Awareness and Body Use for Improvement”, 8-week classes, Lutheran church  

Overcome Medical Conditions

An Integrative Approach for Conserving your Arthritic Joints”, Bryn Mawr Physical Therapy Department

“Conserve Your Energy and Joints in Your Everyday Movements”, Bryn Mawr Hospital

Neck & Back

“Move your spine with less strain, or pain”, Jefferson/Main-line Health

“Awareness through Movement Lessons for Neck and Back Difficulties”, Lankenau Physical Medicine Department

Feldenkrais Instruction

“Awareness Through Movement”: 6-8 week classes, YMCA

Application of the Feldenkrais Method for Movement Disorders”, BMH Physical Therapy Department and Paoli Hospital Physical Therapy Department​

Sitting & Standing

“Dynamic Sitting Posture and Exercises to do at your Office”, Spring haven Corporate Center

 “Dynamic Posture and Body Use for a Healthier Spine”, Chiropractic centers​

Arthritis & Joints

“Conserve Your Energy and Joints in Your Everyday Movements”, Bryn Mawr Hospital

“An Integrative Approach for Conserving your Arthritic Joints”, Bryn Mawr Physical Therapy Department

Coach Instructor

“Movement Habits for an Active Lifestyle” – 6-week class, Main Line School Night

“Reduce Physical Signs & Symptoms of Aging & More”, 6-week class. Main Line School Night

“Body Awareness and Body Use for Improvement”, 8-week classes, Lutheran church