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Doran, co-founder of Stretchworks is a resistance flexibility trainer. She has trained for many years with Tom Longo and Bob Cooley, author of “The Genius of Flexibility.”

Doran’s background includes extensive study of yoga, meditation and mindfulness and holistic health. Currently Doran studies Insight Yoga with Sarah Powers. Insight yoga is a comprehensive path of study that bridges Yoga, Chinese Medicine and Tibetan Buddhism.

As a resistance flexibility trainer. Doran works with her clients to regain youthful agility, strength and power, and fluidity and suppleness in the joint capsules and connective tissue. She works to create a program of resistance stretching and strength that builds lean muscle tissue that is elastic and elongated, improved posture and alignment, and a sense of overall balanced well being. Doran considers her work to be an imperative component to injury prevention and recovery. A personalized program of resistance stretching creates changes in the body and stimulates a robust healthiness, strength and youthful agility, and increased balance for every body. Resistance stretch and strengthening uses leading edge positions that stretch synergistic muscle groups along their correct movement patterns.

Doran helps many women create a positive body image that may include hormonal balancing through stimulating and clearing acupuncture meridian lines activated with resistance stretching. Doran has experience working with women addressing menopausal symptoms as well as PMS and post menopausal symptoms.

Her training and certification from Esalen Institute in clinical hypnosis and relaxation techniques allows her to address with her clients, the emotions that may arise with life changes. Doran grounds her training with over 25 years of daily yoga/meditation practice and mindfulness training. Doran is clear thinking, practical in her approach and compassionate in her sensitivity. This is evident from the first time you meet and work with her.

Doran always brings a passion and vibrancy to every session. She includes teaching her clients the best ways to feed their bodies to develop sustained energy throughout the day and also feeding one’s body to create and support lean muscle tissue. She invites you to re-write your inner dialogue and affirm a positive body image.

As part of your sessions, you will learn how to easily incorporate and practice your program in your everyday life. Doran has the experience of having been in corporate management as the President of her privately owned corporation. She has walked her talk of how to remain healthy, invigorated, and empowered in a stressful and demanding environment.

Working with Doran you will learn how to join the best of yoga with resistance stretching to create, a flexible, strong and balanced body, a wise and positive attitude about yourself and clear thinking that invites inspired action. This can lead to new and meaningful direction that enhances the quality of your life and your interactions with others.

we are the west coast center for Resistance Stretching and the Meridian Flexibility System