I read the bodylike evidence.
For nearly thirty years I have solved the body puzzles others gave up on, as a Certified Massage Therapist, Board Certified Structural Integrator, Polestar Pilates practitioner, and lead instructor at Tensegrity U.
A little about me
“I love this work. Your body is the vehicle for everything you experience, and it holds your story. My job is to help you release outdated patterns, come home to it, and actually enjoy living in it.”
I have been a bodyworker for nearly thirty years and a Pilates instructor since 2010. I use Structural Integration, plain language anatomy education, fascial Pilates, and Gestalt practice. I am drawn to spinal mobility, balance, and anything that helps you age with ease, pleasure, and power. Right now I am most fascinated by working with women, especially through postpartum and perimenopause, and with anyone who has had a hard time inside the medical system.
The results go beyond pain. One client on the verge of shoulder surgery still does not need it five years on. A professional stuck in neck and hip pain rebuilt her work, her relationship, and her life. The work helped them stop settling. I know this firsthand.
After a ten week Structural Integration series, I took my first dance class at twenty two and finally felt at home in my body. If you can walk, you can dance, and helping people find that is my vocation.
I have practiced since 1997, trained at the SOMA Institute, and I keep following my curiosity. Since 2017 that has meant traveling to Maine most years to study at Tom Myers Anatomy Trains school, and it brought me to Nevada County, where I taught for four months at Tensegrity U, became lead instructor, and found my people, the local anatomy nerds. I am also Polestar Pilates certified.
Based in Nevada City, I offer one-on-one sessions and will soon launch courses online worldwide. My passion is to continue to train the next generation of structural body workers to help heal the humans around the world.
What I do
Structural Integration, in plain terms.
I practice Anatomy Trains Structural Integration. I read how you stand and move, find the fascial lines holding your pattern in place, and work them by hand in a set order. Where it hurts is rarely where it started, so I treat the whole body, not the sore spot. Each session opens a territory and sets up the next.
Alongside the hands-on work I teach fascial based Pilates and plain-language anatomy, so you understand what we changed and can hold it. Most people need a focused three-session arc or the full twelve.
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Fascial Fitness
Strength that moves with you.
Fascial based movement that trains the connective tissue web carrying your strength, breath, and balance. You build control you can actually use, so the new structure becomes how you move, not just how you felt on the table.
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Pilates
Pilates, with a fascial mind.
Most Pilates trains muscles. I train the whole system, the deep core and the connective tissue that carries your strength, breath, and balance. Polestar certified and teaching since 2010, with a structural lens on every cue, together we build your control back to the way your body intended.
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Postpartum & Women's Work
Care made for women's bodies.
Skilled, unhurried work for postpartum recovery, the female pelvis, and the changes of perimenopause; I rebuild core, posture, and carrying strain at the pace your body can hold. The attention this part of you rarely gets.
Learn moreI went from body dysmorphic and insecure to an embodied lioness at home in her own skin. After a ten week Structural Integration series, I took my first dance class on my twenty second birthday, and it brought me home.
Training and credentials
Thirty years of training, and still going.
I studied with the founders of this work and became a lead instructor in it. When you see real credentials, you are seeing evidence: a met standard, a tested method, and decades of refining both on real bodies.
CAMTC Certified Massage Therapist · #8058817497
- FoundationAlexander School of MassageWhere the hands-on training began.
- 1997The SOMA InstituteGraduated and began practicing Structural Integration.
- 2013Polestar PilatesCertified instructor. Teaching Pilates since 2010.
- Anatomy TrainsStructural Integration with Tom MyersStudying in Maine most years since 2017.
- AdvancedAdvanced Anatomy Trains Structural IntegrationThe deeper certification in the method.
- NowTensegrity U, Lead InstructorTeaching the method to other practitioners in Nevada County.
Mia's 3 session series helped me understand and work with the diastasis recti I have from my son's birth two years ago. Now I feel lifted and elongated, my organs feel supported, my belly is no longer dumping out. My posture is so much better. I feel like I am standing in gravity the way nature intended instead of hunched over. I only wish I had met Mia sooner.
Mom and computer programmer
My body really feels 10 years younger just from one session. My morning neck stretches were so much more delightful, and the range of motion in my neck has greatly improved.
Bodyworker, Ayurvedic practitioner
I've worked with Mia for 16 years. She doesn't chase the pain; she finds the why. She reads patterns in my body that other practitioners miss, then actually changes them. She is hands down the best bodyworker in Nevada City and Grass Valley.
Grass Valley
Mia's Oov class is great. I walk out feeling taller, more grounded, balanced, and centered. Her extensive knowledge of fascia shines through, she addresses the body as a whole instrument, all parts and systems interconnected. I highly recommend her teaching.
Pilates instructor
After an hour of Mia's exceptional teaching, I walked out taller and lengthened, more present and more intimately alive. After my 12 SI sessions my body felt great and moved with graceful fluidity. I felt 10 years younger. One session of Fascial Fitness brought all of me together, in a delightful way.
Retired chiropractor
I came in skeptical and left a believer. Mia has a way of listening with her hands that I have never experienced anywhere else.
Nurse
Work with Mia.
One-on-one in Grass Valley / Nevada City. Your new body is waiting for you.