BIOGRAPHY HALLIE ALDRICH Movement Specialist, LMT, Cultural Producer
Aldrich brings a lifetime of action into her work as a movement educator/specialist. An athlete, she is familiar with most sports, especially acrobatic work like springboard diving, rhythmic gymnastics, and dance. When integrated with her experiential anatomy, somatic education, and massage training, Aldrich's work experience outpaces the standard practitioner's breadth, with over 10,000 hours of one-on-one work experience treating clients and patients from all backgrounds with remarkable results.
Aldrich began her dance aspirations as a child in ballet and musical theater. Her training continued as a theater major at UCLA, where she first learned about somatic awareness through her voice professor, who taught Alexander Technique. In 1997 she began integrating awareness with Pilates, as a springboard diving coach. In 2000, Aldrich began working for the Pacific Northwest Ballet's Pilates conditioning studio where she instructed professional dancers, professional division students and the general public. She continued to teach and direct mind-body programming for Pilates and arts businesses in Seattle and San Francisco such as Yoga Kula and Presidio Community YMCA, and JGPG Performance Group.
While working in San Francisco as a company member in Scott Wells & Dancers, she began training as a Trager® Neuromuscular Integration Practictioner. After moving to Urbana-Champaign, she was deeply influenced by classes in Alexander Technique while working as a creative fellow, and teaching contact improvisation, modern tumbling and dance history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She graduated in 2011 and returned to Seattle, received her Trager certification and massage license while at Discoverypoint School for Massage in 2012.
Aldrich is working on Vashon Island and West Seattle creating educational materials for movement medicine and offering bookings for Trager, massage, and Somatic Pilates sessions to athletes of all kinds. Her most recent passion is a new project-- Whole Body Boot Camp, a six month program that improves body positive self-care habits.
