Hello, I am Dr Deb Bilodeau
Teacher & Guide
I have spent much of my life exploring movement.
What began as a love of athletic performance and fitness, gradually evolved into something deeper: a curiosity about the relationship between body, experience, awareness, and self.
Through my academic studies, collegiate teaching, professional practice, explorations, and years of working with clients, I came to understand that movement is about much more than muscles and mechanics.
The body holds the imprints of our lived experiences. These physical, nervous system, and energetic imprints influence how we move, perceive, respond, and relate to ourselves and the world.
Over time, my attention shifted from achieving and performing to connecting. I began exploring my own life through the perspective of my body.
Through movement, sensation, writing, and deep processing, I explored and uncovered patterns, beliefs, emotions, restrictions, and stories that formed my foundation and informed my healing. I learned that the body is constantly receiving and communicating. Understanding its language opens the door to a profound understanding of ourselves.
This perspective now forms the foundation of my work. I bring together my understanding of movement, nervous system patterns, physical and energetic awareness, deep listening, and lived experience to help others understand the language of their own bodies.
Because your body is home to all that you are: sensations, feelings, energy, soul, mind, and consciousness.
To know your body is to know yourself more fully.
To listen to your body is to access the wisdom already living within you.
And through that relationship trust, understanding and self-compassion naturally emerge.
My Credentials:
Education & Collegiate Teaching
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Doctorate in Physical Education (Sport Psychology) from Springfield College (MA)
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MS in Teaching and Administration from Springfield College (MA)
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BS in Sport Management from UMass/Amherst (MA)
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Former Professor at Bridgewater State (MA), Salem State (MA), and Keene State (NH) Colleges
Movement & Performance
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25 plus years of experience in mobility and fitness training, athletic coaching, and health coaching across New England and Florida
Somatics & Energy
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Reiki Master Teacher
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Trager training (Level 1)
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14+ Years of dedicated self-study in The Feldenkrais Method
Why The Turquoise Body?
I have always been drawn to turquoise—both the color and the stone. The color reflects the sea and sky. The energy of the stone encourages physical healing, stress reduction, compassion, and emotional and energetic balance.
The energy of turquoise enhances intuition, anchors spiritual connection, and supports expression of authentic truth.
Imagine allowing all that turquoise, energy and color, to completely fill your body, anchoring you to the earth, flowing through your system and heart, and radiating outward and upward. That is how The Turquoise Body came to life: to represent our embodied and profound capacity to move, sense, intuit, communicate, and live in alignment and wholeness.