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 9 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
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Trigger Point Therapy
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Myofascial Release
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Neuromuscular Therapy
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Deep Tissue Compression
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Thai Bodywork
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Muscle Energy Technique
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PNF Stretching + Vibration
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Orthopedic Massage
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Functional Movement Coaching
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Pain Neuroscience Education
Conditions commonly treated
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Shoulder pain & rotator cuff issues
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Sciatica & low back pain
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Sacroiliac (SI) joint dysfunction
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Neck pain, TMJ, and headaches
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Hip, groin, and knee pain
Plantar fasciitis, Tennis elbow & Golfer's elbow
Tingling, numbness, nerve pain
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Persistent and recurring pain & tension
Pain Treatment Offerings
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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:
Home studio Wednesday morning and after 12PM daily, some Weekends
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Privates, Virtual Privates
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Virtual mat classes coming soon...
The Pilates Loft on Old Metairie Road Tuesday and Friday mornings
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Privates only
Grace Pilates and Yoga on Magazine Street Monday and Thursday mornings
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Privates
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Equipment Class Mondays at 11AM
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Mat Class Thursdays at 8AM
"You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions."
"Change happens through movement and movement heals."
- 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
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
The Work
1 hr 30 min