Tamara Vern-Gross, DO FAAP

A wellness practice that combines Rehabilitation Pilates, individualized movement and health coaching with the perspective of a physician who understands illness and the human condition, helping you reconnect with your body, rebuild strength and confidence, and move forward with intention when healing, in 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 learning how to live fully in the body and life you have now 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 &MOVE - Rehabilitative Pilates & Movement

• Strength, mobility, posture, balance, fitness, privates, specialized movement

RESTORE - Recovery & Survivorship Programs

• Cancer survivorship, illness recovery, deconditioning, complex conditions, POTS/dysautonomia, rebuilding after treatment

RECLAIM- Health & Life Coaching

• Major life transitions, identity changes, recovery, addition/habit changes, burnout, life-limiting illness, reinvention

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.”

Some Areas of Specialty Support People Who Are:

• Cancer Survivors

• Living with Complex Neuromuscular Disease - eg. Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia (POTS), neuropathy, dysautonomias, etc.

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

• Diagnosed with life-threatening & life limiting disease who want to live-life to the fullest; rather than waiting to die from disease

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

• Experiencing Healthcare Burnout

• Seeking safe, creative, guided movement to restore strength, confidence, and/or enhance performance

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

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

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.”