Tamara Vern-Gross, DO FAAP

A wellness practice guided by a Board-Certified Osteopath and Radiation Oncologist, certified in Health &Life Coaching and Rehabilitation Pilates helping you reconnect with your body, rebuild strength and confidence, and move forward with intention when healing, recovery, or enhancement of self. While each service stands independently; many clients choose to integrate Pilates and coaching for a more comprehensive experience

WHAT IS LIFEFORCE?

LifeForce brings together rehabilitative Pilates, movement, health and life coaching into personalized wellness programs to support you wherever you are in your journey.

Whether you are rebuilding after illness or injury, seeking greater strength and mobility, navigating a major life transition, restoring what was once lost, or simply ready to feel more like yourself again - there is a place for you here.

REBUILD - Rehabilitative Pilates & Movement

RESTORE - Recovery & Survivorship Programs

RECLAIM- Health & Life Coaching

CONSULT - Medical Expertise & Education

“My own recovery from COVID and subsequent neurological and autoimmune challenges changed the way I understand movement rehabilitation, and resilience. I don’t believe recovery is about forcing your body to become what it was before. Our bodies and lives will always face change. Recovery can mean learning to meet yourself where you are, rebuilding from there, and discovering what is possible next…uncovering strength, confidence and possibility in the person you are becoming.”

The Areas of Specialty Support People Who Are:

• Cancer Survivors

• Living with Complex Neuromuscular Disease

  • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia (POTS), neuropathy, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), dysautonomias, etc.

• Children and Adults recovering from illness, injury, and treatment interventions to improve strength, mobility, function, and quality of life

  • Muscle loss from GLP-1 medications or chronic illness

• Initiating Pilates for school aged children into the classroom for growth and development and Youth Pilates

• Seeking safe, creative, guided movement to restore confidence

• Those living with addictions who seek habit changing outcomes, connecting the body. breath, and mind.

• Diagnosed with life-threatening & life limiting disease who want to live-life to the fullest with the illness, not wait and die from it

• Seeking Pilates and other therapeutic outlets, including movement, fitness/agility, or shared sessions with friends/family or private group events.

• Experiencing Healthcare Burnout

• Interested in Medical Education, collaborative opportunities, or in need of Locum Tenens

WHY LIFEFORCE?

“As a physician and rehabilitation Pilates practitioner, I have spent much of my career helping others navigate illness and recovery. My own health journey taught me something I could never have learned from a textbook alone: how profoundly illness can affect strength, mobility, confidence and our relationship with our bodies.

Pilates, movement, and self-refection became an important part of my own rebuilding process.

Today, I bring that experience - along with my medical background, Pilates training and coaching expertise - to the people I serve.”