Fleur's Teaching Philosophy:  To provide a safe learning space for students to explore concerns, struggles, pains and fears around health education, healthspan and vitality, and movement; where students can be seen and heard, both individually and corporately.

My goal is for all students to feel welcome, regardless of ability or injury, to equip students to evaluate and understand healthy interventions or with movement, understand modifications for movement for their specific abilities. 

Fleur has taught health education at the college level since 1993, and has taught for Emeritus Institute since 1995, and is currently a full-time faculty member for the Emeritus Institute.  She offers: in-person, online synchronous and asynchronous (pre-recorded) movement and lecture health education courses. While in-person, she can be found teaching in on and off-campus Saddleback College locations throughout SouthOrange County where she leads her students in Health/Wellness/Longevity lecture courses, circuit training, mat-based Pilates, sequential stretching, yoga and balance & mobility. 

Fleur's professional interests include creating research-based lectures and incorporating practical skills in maintaining independence in daily activities. She helps her students discern pop fitness/nutrition versus research-based fitness/nutrition, fall-proof methods for improving balance, and self-myofascial release methods of releasing fascia to change inhibited movement patterns and pain relief, and understanding the importance of the lymphatic self massage for our health. 

She is a certified Pilates and yoga instructor with both Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Kinesiology from California State University, Fullerton and Baylor University.   Fleur also possesses a specialized certificate for using Pilates to address pathologies and injuries, including osteoporosis and other spinal and health issues. Other classes she's taught for the Emeritus Institute include chair exercise and aquatic exercise. In addition, she is an American Red Cross certified CPR/First Aid/AED instructor, and AHA compression-only volunteer teacher.

Fleur was formerly the Director of the Pregnagym at Irvine Medical Center, and has worked in settings such as injury reduction and prevention in the industrial workplace, and with elite athletes at the Tom Landry Sports Medicine and Research Center. She has also held the Program Chair position of the Emeritus Institute at Irvine Valley College for 3 years, and is currently the Department Chair for Health and Wellness for the Emeritus Institute at Saddleback College.

She is an Advanced Certified and Teacher Trainer for  The Rossiter System of Stretching, where she helps individuals manage joint and muscle pain through 2-person, deep myofascial release through stretching exercises.

In her free time, Fleur enjoys swimming, cycling, and running (er...jogging...shuffling really). Fleur is a 3x full Ironman triathlete (140.6 mi) and 10x half Ironman (70.3 mi) triathlete. She is also keenly aware of over-use injuries, arthritis, and struggling with plantar fasciitis, and seasonal knee pain.  She loves being a life-long student (total nerd alert!), and is also a mother of two young adult boys (one in college and the other is a start-up software entrepreneur), and is the wife to another runner/swimmer and MS kinesiology graduate. She resides in the Tustin area.