When you Know Kathleen, you know Water…
Her world revolves around water. Kathleen is a life-long lover of water, open water swimmer and passionate advocate for the healing properties of water. She appreciates water as a modality that can enhance our physical, mental and spiritual well-being. Throughout her life, she’s made water her ally, her happy-place, her stress-relief, her life-saver, her fitness gym, her co-therapist and her business partner.
Kathleen is the founder, owner and operator of AquaBodies Fitness, created as a way to utilize and share the healing properties of water. She offers aquatic & land-based therapeutic, rehabilitative, programming for fitness, sports performance, neuro-motor skills, pain relief and safe water practices. One of her passions is hands-on Aquatic SoftTissue Myofascial release. With the water as her ‘co-therapist’, this gentle, fast and effective method reduces pain in the body and increases mobility. There is often immediate relief and a feeling of freedom in the body.
Through her background as a Birth & Postpartum Doula, Kathleen has maintained a passion for the unique requirements for longevity and functionality of the female anatomy. As a result, she offers PelviCore® training, which is a tool and technique designed to functionally activate the muscles of the core & pelvic floor. For the childbearing female, this work can help with the athletic event of childbirth, pre- & post-natal conditioning as well as the postpartum stage to which the female body has adapted. For female & male bodies alike, PelviCore training has helped with issues of the pelvic floor, incontinence, pelvic pain, lower back & Sciatic nerve pain as well as instability in the lower body.
Kathleen has searched far and wide to attain the multiple certifications and trainings in the specialized modalities true to the specific type of healing she is passionate about. With over 25+ years of experience, she has been helping people move better and feel better to ultimately live better. Her passion for aquatic therapy & rehab, combined with her extensive training and expertise in Applied Functional Science® from the Gray Institute® has driven Kathleen to develop the unique Authentic Movement Programming® which delivers safe, creative & effective results.
“Partnering with water to help people feel better has been my passion for over twenty years professionally. I have spent my life appreciating the gifts water gives, and I will continue to center my life around sharing these gifts through water safety, healthy planetary waters and sharing it’s healing properties with as many people as I can.” ~ Kathleen
Industry Credentials & Trainings
Fellow of Applied Functional Science (FAFS), Gray Institute®
Aquatic Therapy and Rehabilitation (ATRI)
Functional Manual Reaction (FMR)
Massage & Polarity Therapist
Aquatic Exercise Association (AEA)
Certified Personal Trainer (ACE)
AquaStretch Practitioner
AquaLogix Instructor Trainer
Red Cross WSI, Water Safety Instructor
Birth & Postpartum Doula (SMS)
2nd Degree Black Belt
Qi Gong Instructor
Women’s Self-Defense Instructor