ABOUT

Deb was that nerd in high school who petitioned to avoid middle school PE!  Now at age 56, she is moving better than ever thanks in great part to studying intensely with world-renowned movement pioneers across many disciplines.

She damaged her hips through years of overstretching and 2 years of teaching yoga 15x/week in her 20s and is passionate about helping others avoid making the same mistakes she did.

Once she learned that the world's best movers don't stretch or do yoga, she switched from teaching yoga to studying everyday ancestral movement patterns and West African dance for 25 years. Her studies took her not only around the world but also ever-deeper into ancestral movement patterns,  biotensegrty, and the neurology of habitual movement re-patterning.

She is very thankful for the variety of mentors she has trained with intensely from various movement and biomechanics traditions, ranging from a physiologist who trains champion Olympic sprinters to villagers in remote areas. A few of these include:

Youssouf Koumbassa, Esther Gokhale, Jean Couch, Miranda Janeschild, Mandjou Kone, Cynthia Stevens, Oumou Faye, Frey Faust, Ido Portal's Santa Cruz Movement, Nic Simpson, Functional Patterns, David Weck, Fractal Biomechanics, Dr. Shaun Astorga, Bam Lionheart, Connor Harris, Functional Patterns' Gio Trminio, GOATA Movement and many more.

She has also worked for technology companies in Silicon Valley for 25 years making award-winning technology that millions of people use today more intuitive. Her soul mission is to help people better respect, understand, and enjoy the ultimate technology- their own perfectly imperfect body.

Deb lives in Santa Cruz, California where she founded "Moving As Designed" and is a movement health consultant. She also hosts the Spotify and YouTube podcast "The Architecture of Health" and produced the book "101 Useless and Damaging Exercises and What To Do Instead" with Axis Syllabus Originator Frey Faust. She was also a nationally competitive debater in high school and her design research work was widely recognized by industry leaders and publications.

She is also currently writing her next book "Snake Oil Works: Stumbling Into Health Freedom"