I didn't set out to open a fitness center.
I set out to feel well.
I've spent over thirty years studying and practicing wellness — acupuncture, movement, breathwork, complementary medicine — earning my Master of Science in Acupuncture summa cum laude from the University of Bridgeport, and my B.A. from Duke before that. But none of it prepared me for the moment my own workout stopped working.
I'd trained hard for years. Then, somewhere along the way, the high-intensity workouts that used to leave me energized started leaving me depleted. I looked for what was supposed to come next, something built for a body that had changed, and found almost nothing. The fitness industry had an answer for getting stronger. It didn't have one for working out smarter.
So I kept searching. On a trip to Italy, jet-lagged and skeptical, I found BodyShape machines. Within thirty minutes I was drenched in sweat, the stiffness of travel had released, and my energy was back… drawn out of me, it seemed, rather than spent. I signed up for three more sessions before I left Florence.
I brought those machines home because I believed Greenwich deserved what I'd found — not as a trend, but as a practice. The path here was long and nonlinear, and I consider that my greatest professional asset: I've learned more from living it than from any classroom.
This isn't something I do. It's the guiding principle behind everything I do, personally and professionally. I live this way, and it's progress, not perfection.
Every tool I offer has been tried and tested in my own body and in my own life first. That's not a credential you earn. It's one you live.
Today, A Okay Wellness is not a gym, and it’s not a spa. We’re a body workshop, small enough to notice you, efficient enough to fit your week, and unhurried enough that you won't want to leave.
Tried. Tested. A Okay.