I started lifting at eleven — after a DARE talk left me worried about bullies — and fell in love with it. I studied how muscles and the nervous system work together, earned a B.S. in Kinesiology at California State University, Northridge, and became a personal trainer at Equinox.
About nine months into that work, a surfing accident changed everything. I didn’t know it then, but I had broken my neck — later described as a dens fracture at C2. What I felt was chronic headaches and a body that no longer trusted motion. Specialists dismissed me. The chief neurologist at Kaiser laughed. Physical therapy didn’t help. So I built my own careful rehab program, listening to what my system could hold, and over about six months my symptoms settled.
Months later, an MRI showed markings of a healed dens fracture. I’d been living with a broken neck the whole time — and I’d found my way through when the usual options hadn’t. That is the gap Reprime is built for.
Today I work with people whose long-standing pain or movement limits keep cutting into the life they want. Sessions mix hands-on bodywork with corrective exercise and supportive practices — breathwork, gentle vagus-nerve and emotional-release work, lifestyle pacing, lymphatic drainage, craniosacral work, and related modalities — as complementary care aimed at stubborn patterns, not as medical diagnosis or a substitute for licensed physical therapy. The goal isn’t to force a fix. It’s to help your body feel prepared again, one honest session at a time.