One long practice

It started at the barre

She was seven when she started ballet, in a room with mirrors along one wall and an old wood floor. Her mother packed real food into the car for the drive to class, small servings, the right things, without making a lesson out of it.

That is where the whole thing begins. Not with a philosophy about wellness, but with a child who learned early that how you move and what you eat are the same conversation.

The idea arrived before the business did

She was nineteen or twenty, still an undergraduate, when she first pictured it: people leaving their ordinary lives, going somewhere else, and doing the real work there.

Her reasoning then is the same reasoning now. Step away from the routine and the tasks and the crazy, and something loosens. Ideas arrive. Minds move that would not have moved at home.

It took another two decades to build.

Teaching, and then a practice

Before any of this she was teaching aerobics at Texas Tech and classes at Gold's Gym, which is where the instinct for a room full of people comes from.

She was still studying ballet at Tech when her instructor took her aside and offered her a scholarship to the Ballet Conservatory. She accepted, and that discipline stays with her today.

She worked for someone else long enough to earn her hours, and the day she had them she left to work her own way. Calibration opened in 2012.

For fourteen years that practice was counseling, one room and one conversation at a time. It is where she learned to ask a better question and then get out of the way. That chapter is closed. What she does now is coaching, and it points the same attention at the whole of how a person lives rather than at one hour of it.

The name came to her on a porch one afternoon. It was the right word immediately. Not correction. Not repair. A calibration, a small and careful adjustment to something that was never broken.

The first retreat

2017, the Florida panhandle. A women's retreat, yoga on the beach, a guitar, and one rainy day when everyone ended up crowded into the living room instead.

Around twenty-five retreats have followed, across Mexico, Italy, the Caribbean, and California. Small ones. Always small ones.

Wellness was already there

It kept surfacing. In the office and on retreat, the same questions kept coming back to gut health, hormones, sleep, food, energy. She had been reading and practicing it for years.

In 2026 she certified formally as a nutritionist. Not because she needed to learn it, but so that people would know they could trust what she already knew.

What she is like to work with

She opens with “tell me what's going on,” never “what are you feeling.” She does not say “you should” or “you need to,” and if one slips out she stops and apologizes for it.

On retreat she answers her own hard questions in front of the group. If she asks a room what it will take to reach self-worth by Friday, she answers first.

Where she works from now

She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Classes run there through the week, and almost everything else runs at a distance, which is how most people work with her. The ninety-day programs (12 sessions in Total Wellness Shift, 24 in Total Wellness Restoration) can be in person for anyone who lives there too.

And she does it herself

She is not describing a lifestyle she read about. She practices, she eats the way she teaches, and she keeps up with people half her age while doing it.

That is the part no certificate covers.

Certifications

• 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
• NCCA Personal Trainer
• Nutrition Specialist
• Brain Health Coach