Sienna Kresge (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based writer, dance and multimedia artist, and Pilates & somatic wellness practitioner. She originally hails from Boise, Idaho where wide open spaces and a family of dancers inspired an early love for movement expression. She has trained and assisted professional choreographers in LA, New York, Las Vegas, and Finland. Naturally, Sienna’s introduction to Pilates and bodywork came at the encouragement of a dance teacher as a supplement to her training. Thus, a seed was planted, and she discovered that healing movement is a vital channel for nourishing embodiment and for processing the stress, trauma, and dissociation of capitalist, colonialist, oppressive systems and ideas.
In 2017, Sienna graduated magna cum laude from Chapman University with a double BA in Dance and Philosophy. Her theses explored issues of personal identity in dancers, and the relative virtues of intellectual humility and intellectual courage.
After several years dancing professionally with RWS Entertainment, teaching with and assisting dance professionals, choreographing, and writing, she completed a 600+ hour comprehensive Pilates certification through Erika Bloom Pilates in New York City with mentorship under Adrienne Weidert. Sienna’s current curiosities are in the fields of somatics and nervous system regulation, and is continuing education in biodynamic, adaptive body work practices through Holly Johnston’s Responsive Body practitioner program.
Marrying mind and body, Sienna is passionate about empowering the body’s psychosomatic autonomy by bringing client awareness to patterns of breath, movement, tension, and belief. “Meet your body where it’s at” is a frequent counsel of hers. By honoring the body’s innate abilities to communicate, regulate, and heal, she believes that accessing the experience of ease, alignment, and pleasure is key to maintaining mind-body vibrancy and longevity.
As an artist, Sienna enjoys exploring intuitive movement, humming and singing, breathwork, meditation, writing, drawing, painting, collage, photography, playing piano, sewing, ceramics, and floral arrangement. She is both aroused and terrified by the unknown which constitutes the voyage of creative practice.