We’re Alison and Ann. Nope. We’re not sisters. But people ask us that all the time. We’re two long-time yoga practitioners/anatomy teachers who came together through the Franklin Method and want to change the world by helping people connect to themselves, one bone at a time.

Meet Alison

When I was a child, my favorite toy to play with was my father's anatomy book that had transparent overlays of each body system. You could flip the pages and basically take away or add on a layer of muscle, bone, organs, nerves, etc. I was in awe at a very early age at how complicated and miraculous it is to be in a body.

I have always loved the study of what we are. Not just who we are in our tissues, but in our thoughts and actions, and how the outside world impacts the inside world and vice versa. I'm forever curious about how we communicate - with ourselves and with others.

It's this study that also has me endlessly fascinated with dog training (of my two spoiled and ingenious German Shepherds), with storytelling/writing, studying Spanish and acting/singing/dancing.

The loss of a loved one led me to delve more deeply into yoga asana and philosophy. I began teaching in 2007 and started my company, Movement at Work, as a way to bring these practices to people where they work, in offices or online. I studied yoga therapy to help others in a one-on-one capacity and bring therapeutic, functional movement classes to physical therapy clinics and schools.

After a debilitating back injury, I found Franklin Method, which helped me heal completely. The pedagogy, imagery and functional anatomy was the key to understanding my body/mind in a way I didn't know was possible - to truly feel connected. Now part of the Franklin Method Faculty, I assist with teacher trainings and collaborated with Eric Franklin in writing a book on the functional anatomy of the pelvis in yoga asana.

It was through Franklin Method that I met my cherished teaching partner, Ann Teachworth. We share our (sometimes obsessive) love and joy for the human body in our work whether it's with our cadaver dissection + embodiment courses, kinesiology trainings for massage schools or the classes we create to cultivate more awe all around that we even landed in these human bodies.

I offer a monthly membership with a variety of doable, creative online movement classes and access to my video library of 800+ videos. Along with offering private sessions, I teach Anatomy and Physiology for Oregon School of Massage and I continue to share movement classes with companies such as: the Portland Opera, eBay, Kaiser Permanente, Guide Dogs for the Blind and Harsch Investments.

Meet Ann

My movement journey began with yoga and dance at 13. It made me way more flexible and graceful than my awkward, gangly 13-year-old self ever imagined possible. I taught and practiced with anyone who would listen.

Always obsessed with how humans work, why we do what we do, and how we can do it better, I began studying different types of complementary and alternative medicine approaches while living in NYC working as an actor/dancer/singer. Franklin Method™ was among those modalities.

After 20+ years of doing yoga, it was through the Franklin Method™ that I finally experienced yoga and mindfulness and I love extending that deepened experience to others. I saw a big gap between the static informational anatomy of many trainings and the rich experiences available when you actually experience and embody your anatomy and movement. I started teaching Franklin Method workshops for yogis and yoga teacher trainings. This expanded into using this embodied approach to teach the entire anatomy portions of trainings as well as teaching anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology for a Massage Therapy School.

For me, learning Anatomy is coming home. It isn’t information or a means to an end, it is the integration of mind, body, and being.

Now a Franklin Method Educator, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Life Coach, and Integrative healthcare practitioner, my work all focuses on helping people understand and embody their design and function so that they can move more fully and freely in their bodies, minds, and lives.

I also co-founded Trunamics.com with my husband, Lynn, to train and resource massage therapists and bodyworkers in an integrative approach to human body dynamics that encompasses not only the structural but also the functional and energetic aspects of the body.

Now it’s your turn . . .

If you’re here, you have an interest in knowing more about the body. You may own a studio/school or run trainings. Or maybe you’re just a body nerd like us who loves exploring how we move.

Whatever your journey, you’ve no doubt experienced an evolution in your own body, and you may see some gaps (or opportunities) in other offerings you've seen out there. Maybe you're tired of trainings that focus on what's wrong with the body.

Would you like, for yourself and your students, a deeper, richer, more integrated experience of anatomy and function?

Could you use more spark/discovery/insights as a cure for burn out in your teaching or in your practice?

Could you/your students benefit from a deeper understanding of how the body works as well as an actual lived, embodied experience of the body in motion?

Are you ready to embody what you are made of?

Let’s chat and see how we can work together to make that happen.

• Experiencing the body in motion

• Embodied Anatomical Study

• Teaching from your body

• Experiential Anatomy

• Yummy Body Exploration

• Learning anatomy made fun, clear, and applicable

• Coming Home

• Living in your Body

• Proprioceptive Body Discovery

• Connecting people in their bodies

• Integrating body and mind

• Moving more fully and freely on the mat and in life.