Testimonials
I have been under the care of Holly for the last one and a half years and she has helped me so many times that I call her my miracle worker. Long story short I had many years of disabling low back problems. I tried many things including epidural steroid injections, physical therapy, rest, alternative exercise-based therapy like egoscue , Gokhle method acupuncture and chiropractic care . I found myself in a cycle where I wasn’t able to be functional and do my job as a surgeon or enjoy the physical activities like hiking and skiing. I credit Holly for really helping me and my body recover to a point where I am living a full life again . She has an amazing ability to understand what’s wrong with my body and fix it in a session. She understands how muscle groups work together and is a genius in pinpointing the problem. Holly has helped me undo a lot of the chronic dysfunction that my muscles and joints had developed over years and I use her as a guide, personal trainer and bodywork specialist. She has also given my body the confidence to do the things I love ! Thank you Holly and I am so glad I found you!
Supriya Mathur M.D.
Holly uses her hands to intuitively connect to the body and offer transformative possibilities to the people she works with. In my work with Holly, I have had chronic pains dissolve, efficiently changed ingrained movement patterns and unlocked new potentials for movement in my body. After my first intensive sessions with Holly, my own mother was astonished by how quickly my body had transformed it’s shape - my feet had functional arches for the first time, and I was using my legs so differently that the visible shape had changed immensely.
However, to me, these changes are only symptomatic of what Holly’s work truly accomplishes for her clients. What Holly does brilliantly is connect to each client and see a greater potential for them to fulfill, on physical, psychological and emotional levels. While she uses her hands to touch the flesh, she also reaches deeper - healing lost hurts and calling forward new strength and power. Working with Holly helped me to discover and overcome hidden trauma, and paved the way for me to pursue a professional career as a dance artist. She helped me to unlock my own potential and gave me the capacity to believe in myself and my capacity to deepen, grow and transform.
It is for this reason that I always recommend Holly as a practitioner for EVERY body, she doesn’t merely ask that you show up to the session and allow her to ‘fix’ you. Instead she opens the door so that you might journey down a new path of empowerment, where you have the strength to believe in and show up for your own healing and growth, and that you realize one day that you were never broken to begin with. This is Holly’s profound gift and I am so grateful to receive her gifts.
Elizabeth Chitty, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Certified Rolfing Therapist, Dance Artist
Holly’s deep knowledge of the human body’s anatomy and function is matched by her intuitive grasp of how mental and emotional factors shape physiology. She is one of the few practitioners with whom I’ve worked who can seamlessly navigate these different layers. She combines scientific precision with keen insight into your body’s capacity to grow and change.
Katharine Hawthorne, Dance Artist, BA Physics
Holly understands the body and people from the depth of her being. She moves, teaches and guides from connection, compassion, love and a deep respect for people. She's real and that honesty immediately invites you to let down your guard and leave all of the pretending, trying, struggling at the door. Her seeing of me allows me to understand myself in ways that I never thought were possible. I began working with her pre-covid and a good part of our sessions together were movement and touch based. A choreographer, a woman of color, a mother, an adoptee, a teacher, she comfortably embodies her own complexity and intersectionality, which allows her to hold space for the complexities of others, our society and the world. It is one of her super powers and it invited me to immediately feel open and trust her. She is a master artist with her own body/being as her primary tool, and has helped me let go and release physically, emotionally and vibrationally in ways that have impacted all areas of my life. I recently began working with her again virtually (to be covid safe) and the majority of our sessions are now speaking, breathing with some movement, and the profound difference it has made for me each week has been mind blowing. I feel heard, seen, understood and emboldened with new tools and ideas on how to more powerfully move through my life. My partner has commented that when I come out of a session with Holly, I seem to be floating. Working with her each time makes me feel less tangled up and truly expansive.