Meet Brittany
I’m a Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), writer, and sensory movement practitioner based in Massachusetts.
I came to yoga therapy through a body I spent much of my life trying to understand.
I experienced a stroke around the time of my birth and grew up with its effects on the right side of my body. For years, I thought about movement in terms of what my body could or couldn't do. I hid my right hand. I paid attention to what felt different. And somewhere along the way, I began to believe that those differences were something I needed to overcome.
Then I discovered belly dance.
Something unexpected happened when I moved.
I wasn't thinking about hiding my hand.
I wasn't trying to make my body look or move a certain way.
I was simply curious.
That curiosity eventually led me to yoga, and later to yoga therapy.
I began asking a different question:
“What will my body do?”
Not: “Can my body do this?”
That question changed how I experienced movement.
Instead of trying to force my body into a particular outcome, I began noticing what it was communicating—through sensation, tension, ease, breath, movement, stillness, and even the moments when something didn't happen the way I expected.
I began to understand that my body wasn't a collection of problems to solve.
And that an interruption in the way we move or experience ourselves doesn't have to become the definition of who we are.
The interruption is not your whole story.
Today, that's at the heart of how I work with others.
As a Yoga Therapist, I create sensory-centered experiences where we can explore movement, breath, rest, handwriting, coin scarves, and other gentle tools—not to fix, force, or judge the body, but to become curious about what it is communicating.
Sometimes that curiosity reveals something small:
A little ease.
A new sensation.
A movement you didn't expect.
A moment of connection.
A possibility.
I call those moments glimmers.
They don't have to last long to matter.
My work is about making room for those moments—and discovering what becomes possible when we stop assuming we already know what our bodies can or cannot do.
Because you don't have to become a different body to have a different relationship with the one you have.
For the Senses: Using Coin Scarves and Handwriting
In addition to yoga tools, I invite clients to explore and play with belly dance coin scarves and handwriting. The coin scarves aren’t about dance or performance, their weighted, sound, and visual feedback help us make sense of the messages that the brain is sending us.
The handwriting tool - Trust Fall Writing® - is a way to listen to whatever truths come through our intuition. We listen to a poem or excerpt, choose a line to begin writing from and then write as fast as comfortable. This continuous writing -without editing, questioning, or judging, quiets the areas of the brain that ask us to hide out of fear and label our body as “right,” “wrong,” “good,” and “bad.” In a one-on-one session after writing, we may meet ourselves on the page again, this time by asking and reflecting on non-judgmental questions about our writing voice. This allows us to practice being objective toward ourselves.
I also lead Trust Fall Writing groups. If interested, please visit the “Trust Fall Writing Events” page for more information.