Mary Jo Healy has been passionate about movement education since her early years as a competitive athlete. After completing a BA in Dance from CSULB she toured internationally as a professional dancer with The Magic of David Copperfield. Subsequently, she was certified in Pilates and completed a 4-year training to become a Feldenkrais Practitioner. She enjoyed a private practice in LA as well as teaching performing artists at UCLA and Long Beach City Jr. College. She moved to Ojai to marry and raise a family of two boys and returned to academia teaching dance and PE at Oak Grove and San Antonio Schools. She co-founded Awareness in Action Pilates studio and followed her own journey in the healing arts studying yoga and becoming certified in Yoga Therapy. Currently, Mary Jo maintains a private practice of over 20 years here in Ojai based on the Feldenkrais Method of Functional Integration and teaches several community classes.
Mary is honored to bring the following Feldenkrais Method offering to Somatic Sanctuary: Awareness through Movement® Group Classes.