my passion for movement began very early in life.

at the age of three, my mum took me to see swan lake, and i immediately fell prisoner to the beauty of classical ballet - the dancers, the tutus, the magical atmosphere of the theatre. i was always a serious, reflective child (a projector baby!), and soon after i found myself stepping into my very first ballet class.

my mum didn't see much potential at first. i wasn't necessarily built for ballet. but even at that young age, i was one of the most dedicated students in every class, and my first teacher eventually suggested i audition for a professional ballet academy.

the rest, as they say, is history.

i've now spent over 30 years exploring the possibilities and complexities of the human body. after graduating from the professional ballet academy, i began teaching in my early twenties. at first, i taught the way i had been taught - push harder, work longer, make people sweat and leave the studio completely exhausted.

in my mid-twenties, i co-founded Canada's first flexibility school - a multi-location studio teaching stretching as a workout. it was a brand-new concept brought to north America and we built an incredible community. we got to work with so many amazing people (men and women, teenagers and seniors) and it became a beautiful building block on my professional path. but as i reflect on that chapter now, i realize my coaching philosophy was still mostly rooted in the idea that more struggle always meant better results.

over time, something started shifting.

after teaching thousands of students, i realized that this approach worked well for people with some sort of a movement experience behind them, but not necessarily for adults starting later in life without the same physical foundation.

that realization sent me down a completely different path.

i found a way to dig much deeper, beyond a superficial level of fitness knowledge. i spent years studying anatomy, biomechanics, and human performance, learning from some of the most knowledgeable physiotherapists and movement educators i could find. i wasn't interested in collecting exercises. i wanted to understand why movement works, why it sometimes doesn't, and why the exact same cue can produce completely different results in two different bodies.

that's when years of experience finally met the knowledge i didn't know i needed.

the more i learned, the more my coaching evolved. i still believe in the incredible capacity of the human body, but i also believe that reaching that potential requires an intelligent, educational approach. experience & movement creativity met science, and that's where i found my own methodology.

this is also where i believe traditional fitness often falls short. it's frequently built around the assumption that the most popular, sweaty, hardcore exercises fit every body, when in reality no two people move exactly alike. simply demonstrating an exercise is rarely enough for someone to perform it well. understanding why they're doing it, how it should feel, and how to adapt it to their unique body is what creates progress.

and so, i guess all those years of questioning, teaching, reflecting, and learning eventually became BTB.

today, BTB brings together everything i've learned through professional ballet, yoga, pilates, pole dance, strength training, and years of studying anatomy and biomechanics to create a movement platform that, yes, introduces you to uniquely creative, genuinely fun movement workouts, but it also doesn't just tell you what to do - it teaches you why, and how to adapt movement to your own unique body.

my biggest goal, and what i now see as my life's mission, is to help my students develop incredible levels of strength and flexibility while exploring movement through the lens of quality, curiosity, and intelligent progressions. above all, i hope to show that we are all capable of feeling free, fluid, strong, and empowered within our own minds and bodies.