Dance Was Never the Point

Thirty-five years of dancing, coaching, facilitating.

Working with everyone from performers to people convinced they had two left feet.

What I learned had nothing to do with dance.

It was always about relationship.

Freebox didn't emerge in isolation.

For more than three decades, I've devoted myself to the study and practice of movement, embodiment, leadership, and human development. Along the way, I've been shaped by extraordinary teachers, communities, and disciplines that explored the relationship between body, mind, awareness, and transformation.

Among the deepest influences are Soul Motion® and the work of Vincent Martinez Grieco, whose vision of movement as a relational and contemplative practice profoundly shaped my own. I later became part of the team that developed Soul Motion's original Leadership Program and Teacher Training, an experience that deepened my understanding of how transformational work can be cultivated, practiced, and shared.

My path has also been enriched by years of study in yoga, hypnosis, and the experiential learning culture of Esalen, along with many other trainings and certifications. Each offered a different perspective. Together, they expanded my understanding of what it means to learn through the body.

I began teaching Freebox classes in Encinitas, California, in 2005.

The practice continued to evolve through every class, every workshop, every conversation, and every season of life.

As I taught, observed, and listened, patterns began to emerge. The practice was revealing something deeper than movement itself. It was cultivating the human capacities that shape how we relate to ourselves, to one another, and to life.

In 2009, I committed to dancing every single day for an entire year, documenting the journey through what became The Everyday Dance Project.

Looking back, I see that year as a living laboratory.

It revealed how movement creates permission, how relationship transforms us, and how one person's willingness to move can invite others to do the same.

Many of the questions that eventually shaped Freebox first became visible there.

When my husband, Tommy, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, everything I had been teaching became suddenly, urgently real.

What I could do was stay present.

Movement became a way of remaining connected to myself when everything else felt uncertain.

That season didn't create Freebox. It deepened it.

It confirmed what years of practice had already begun to reveal.

What emerged wasn't another dance class.

It was a movement practice rooted in dance that helps people cultivate the human capacities needed to meet life with greater poise, precision, flow, and grace.

Freebox continues to evolve. As every living practice should.

Let it Move is the gentlest starting point — for anyone holding something heavy or feeling stuck.

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Your body possesses an extraordinary intelligence.

Culture is obsessed with fixing it. Freebox exists to excavate its magnificence, in all its messiness.

My role isn't to tell you who to become, or how to move.

It's to create the conditions where more of you can emerge.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationship with yourself, with others, and with the moment.

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