STOP PUSHING THROUGH PERSISTENT PAIN
Feel strong, supported, and confident in your body again.
Root Cause Bodywork
You already know something needs to change.
This is where that change begins.
You've tried to push through.
You've seen practitioners, done the stretches, taken the breaks.
And the pain keeps coming back.
That's because most approaches treat the symptom.
This work goes to the root.
Over 10 years and hundreds of clients, Heidi has refined an approach that helps uncover the underlying patterns contributing to persistent and unresolved pain—so clients can move with greater ease, confidence, and trust in their bodies.
How It Works
Each session combines hands-on bodywork, movement assessment, and pain neuroscience to uncover the patterns contributing to your symptoms. Together, we'll identify compensation patterns, areas of tension, and nervous system responses that may be contributing to your symptoms—then work to create meaningful, lasting change.
Sessions take place on a floor mat. Wear comfortable, loose clothing.
Tools I May Draw From During Your Session
-
Trigger Point Therapy
-
Myofascial Release
-
Neuromuscular Therapy
-
Deep Tissue Compression working ROM
-
Thai Bodywork
-
Muscle Energy Technique
-
PNF Stretching + Vibration
-
Orthopedic Massage
-
Functional Movement Coaching
-
Pain Neuroscience Education
Conditions commonly treated
-
Shoulder pain & rotator cuff issues
-
Sciatica & low back pain
-
Sacroiliac (SI) joint dysfunction
-
Neck pain, TMJ, and headaches
-
Hip, groin, and knee pain
Plantar fasciitis, Tennis elbow & Golfer's elbow
Tingling, numbness, nerve pain
-
Persistent and recurring pain & tension
Pain Treatment Offerings
-
Yoga Unbound on Freret St
-
Client Home; travel fees start at $75
Certified LMT (LA8905) and a Coaching the Body Practitioner.
“In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.”
- Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
"My shoulder pain was virtually gone after my second session."
Years of trying everything. Finally resolved at the root.
"When I first went to see Heidi it was to treat shoulder pain that I had been experiencing for years. I had tried to treat it with years of chiropractic visits and other massage therapists with no real long-term success. My pain was significantly decreased after my first visit, and virtually gone after my second session. Additionally, I had learned to live with a limited range of motion in my ankle due to a dislocation I experienced over ten years ago. After one session, I had increased range of motion and reduced pain in all of my right side body muscles. She has not only improved my physical ailments, but my quality of life. Heidi really knows her stuff and I would recommend her to anybody!"
Lizzie Keene, Music Educator
Pain-Free Pilates
Most people come to Pilates because they are dealing with persistent pain, tension, or movement limitations.
Others have been told they need to strengthen their core.
Some are afraid they will make things worse if they move the wrong way.
This is Pilates for people who want to move with confidence again.
Every session begins with understanding where your body is right now and what it needs to feel safe moving again. We start with breath, awareness, and learning how your body engages and moves. The springs support you, making movement feel possible again without fear or bracing.
Once your body feels safe, we build strength, stability, and resilience from the inside out.
This is not about pushing through pain. It is about creating the conditions for your body to move with confidence again.
Heidi is a Comprehensive Classical Pilates Instructor with more than 600 hours of training through REAL Pilates in New York and additional training in Baptiste Power Yoga.
Pilates Offerings:
-
Privates, Virtual Privates
-
Virtual/In Person mat classes coming soon...
The Pilates Loft on Old Metairie Road Tuesday mornings
-
Privates only
Grace Pilates and Yoga on Magazine Street MWF mornings
-
Privates
-
Safe & Strong Mat Class Wednesday mornings at 8am
Jewish Comunnity Center on St. Charles Street Thursday mornings at 10
-
Safe & Strong (Pilates Group EX Class)
"You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions."
- Joseph H. Pilates
"Run, don't walk."
Technique finally fine-tuned by someone who actually sees what others missed.
"Heidi is seriously the best Pilates instructor I've had. I worked harder and felt much more challenged when I started doing classes with her. She provides useful cues and visualizations throughout to make the most out of every exercise. Her tactile cueing has really helped me fine-tune my technique with exercises I didn't realize I wasn't doing well for years. Her energy is so upbeat and motivating that class is fun, even though it's tough! Run, don't walk to Pilates with Heidi!"
Emily Sehrt, Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist
The Art of Intelligent Movement
Explore • Repattern • Strengthen • Flow
Four distinct experiences. One philosophy: learn the language of your body.
Movement Classes & Private Sessions
Joint
Alchemy
The Art of Engagement & Release
Discover a different way to experience your body.
Joint Alchemy is a slow, intentional exploration of rigidity, resistance, muscular opposition, and release. Through sustained positions, active engagement, passive holds, and conscious breathwork, you'll learn to listen to your joints and discover the subtle relationship between effort and ease.
Rather than forcing yourself deeper into a stretch, you'll explore where your body holds tension, how opposing muscles influence movement, and when to engage, soften, or simply allow.
Rooted in anatomy and body awareness, this practice encourages nervous system downregulation while helping you develop greater joint mobility, stability, and strength.
Explore resistance. Discover ease. Build strength from within.
“The answer is always in the restriction. We need to move the body in the most intelligent way.”
— Francisco Kaiut | Kaiut Yoga
“It's not about performance, but gradual and conscious evolution.”
— Ravi Kaiut | Kaiut Yoga
Safe
&
Strong
Pilates
Learn the Language of Your Body
Back to basics. Repattern your movement. Build strength from the inside out.
Safe & Strong is a movement education class rooted in classical Pilates. By slowing down and exploring traditional mat exercises in detail, you'll learn to repattern your breath and core engagement, discover your end ranges, and connect your anchor points.
Explore muscular connections from head to toe, learning what to engage, release, and stabilize to build a stronger foundation for comfortable, controlled movement.
Designed for beginners through advanced practitioners, this class is especially valuable for anyone experiencing neck, shoulder, hip, knee, or back discomfort, struggling to connect with their core, or wanting to refine their technique.
Slow down. Reconnect. Repattern. Move Safe & Strong.
"Change happens through movement and movement heals."
— Joseph Pilates | The Art of Contrology
Alchemy
in Motion
The Art of Strength & Flow
Discover a more intentional way to move through yoga.
Alchemy in Motion is a breath-driven Vinyasa flow integrating muscle energy techniques, purposeful muscular contractions, and conscious release. Through flowing sequences, you'll explore the relationship between strength, flexibility, and stability.
Learn to connect your core and anchor points, engage opposing muscles, and find control within each pose. Rather than simply stretching deeper, you'll discover how intentional engagement creates greater freedom of movement.
Designed for both tight, restricted bodies seeking mobility and hypermobile bodies needing stability, this anatomy-informed practice builds strength, awareness, and confidence throughout your available range of motion.
Breathe with intention. Engage with purpose. Discover freedom in motion.
“You don’t need more complexity. You need deeper connection.”
— Baron Baptiste | Journey Into Power
The
BODYLAB Trinity
Three Practices • One Connected Body
Explore • Re-pattern • Strengthen • Flow
Experience the full spectrum of BODYLAB movement education in one immersive 90-minute class.
Inspired by the New Orleans culinary tradition of the Holy Trinity, where three essential ingredients create the foundation for something extraordinary, The BODYLAB Trinity brings together Joint Alchemy, Safe & Strong Pilates, and Alchemy in Motion in one immersive movement experience.
Begin by exploring your joints, recognizing resistance, and discovering the balance between engagement and release. Reconnect with your breath and deep core, repattern habitual movement, and build stability and strength. Then bring it all together through an intentional Vinyasa flow guided by breath.
Rooted in anatomy and movement education, this practice explores how mobility, stability, strength, and flexibility work together to help you move with greater awareness, freedom, and control.
Give your body what it needs. Re-pattern the way you move. Discover what you're capable of.
“Your body doesn't need more forcing. It needs understanding. Learn its language, repattern its habits, and discover what it's capable of.”
— Heidi Domangue | BODYLAB
Group Class Offerings:
-
Privates, Virtual Privates
-
Virtual/In Person group classes coming soon...
Artist/Teacher
Art has always been part of who I am, not something I do, but something I am.
For years, healing bodies took center stage and my art practice took a pause. The creativity never stopped. It simply found new forms. I learned woodworking and welding to build my own classical Pilates equipment. I studied anatomy through touch and movement. Every body I work with teaches me something about form, structure, and expression.
Now I feel myself being called back to the studio.
I am developing a new body of work exploring the sacred dance between body, spirit, and soul. I am also dreaming up weekend workshops where people can reconnect with their own creativity through batik painting, watercolor, printmaking, ceramics, and hand beaded earrings.
I hold a BA in Fine Art, an AS in Graphic Design, and spent years teaching gifted and talented art students. But more than anything, I have spent a lifetime making things with my hands.
Art and healing have never felt separate to me. Both ask us to slow down, pay attention, trust the process, and believe in what is not yet visible.
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
- Pablo Picasso