Hi, I'm Rachel.

My story

Strength training and yoga taught me two different things. Combining them changed everything.

Before I was a coach, I spent years using exercise to punish myself rather than support myself.

Getting well meant working through disordered eating, addiction, and a lot of therapy. Yoga was where I first learned to be still in my own body without needing to fix it. Strength training was where I learned what that body could actually do, once I stopped fighting it.

None of that was just physical, though. Getting well meant learning to stop abandoning myself – setting boundaries, following through on what I said I'd do, actually sitting with how I felt instead of training it away. My body only started changing for good once that shifted. That's the order it actually happens in, and it's the opposite of what most fitness advice tells you.

The Lift & Flow Method came directly out of that combination – a strength coach's understanding of what builds a body, a yoga teacher's understanding of what settles a nervous system, and my own experience of what it actually takes to trust yourself enough to follow through. Most coaches have trained deeply in one piece of that. I built my approach on all three, because I needed all three.

I'm a Level 4 Strength & Conditioning Coach and a 200-hour Yoga Teacher, and I've coached over 70 women in the last five years. But the letters after my name aren't really the point. The point is I coach women through the parts most trainers leave out – rebuilding your relationship with food, your body, your own nervous system, and your ability to trust yourself, alongside your strength.