BODY OF WORK is practice built from three disciplines, for one very specific problem.

I created this course because I couldn't find it anywhere and I needed it. I'm a Pilates instructor, a somatic practitioner, and a working writer. That combination turned out to matter more than I expected.

Here's what the research shows: the longer you sit, the more your body quietly reorganizes itself around that position. Hip flexors shorten. The glutes stop firing. The mid-back rounds. These aren't just posture quirks. They're neuromuscular patterns that become structural over time.

But there's a second layer most movement classes miss. Sustained mental focus, the kind that comes with writing, deep work, or staring at a screen, activates the same sympathetic nervous system pathways as physical stress. Your body releases the same stress hormones whether you're facing a deadline or actual danger. It braces. And it stays braced, long after you've closed the laptop.

Body of Work addresses both things at once. Pilates reactivates what sitting has put to sleep: the deep core, the glutes, the posterior chain, the breath. The somatic work addresses what's happening underneath: the chronic tension, the shallow breathing, the nervous system that never quite got the signal it was safe to let go. Together they do something neither can do alone.