The Balanced Runner

College and Williams College, and graduated from Williams in 1992. Working as a professional dancer from 1992-2003, she performed with a number of New York City-based companies, and at the time of her retirement from dance in 2003 she was a senior company member of Sarah Skaggs Dance. Jae’s interest in running technique was sparked when, as a professional dancer, she was asked to perform choreography that included sustained running in large, outdoor environments. Frustrated by how difficult and uncomfortable running felt, she began to study running technique and use the Feldenkrais Professional Training Program she was enrolled in as a laboratory to discover how to coordinate her movements so that running felt comfortable, easy, and enjoyable. Eventually, realizing she’d come to prefer running to dancing, and also that the changes in movement that had made the difference to her running were not being taught, discussed, or researched elsewhere, she retired from dancing and launched The Balanced Runner. Jae has been a member of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America since 1999 and the United Kingdom since 2011, and was a certified personal trainer from 1999-2012. Jae’s work with runners has been featured in the media, including Canadian Running, Runner’s World UK, BBC Scotland, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Podium Runner, and in the book Rise of the Ultra Runners by Adharanand Finn. Her elite clients have included three-time Olympian Jen Rhines, Olympian Sonia Samuels, and London Olympic Triathlon Medalist Lisa Norden, as well as multi-record-setting ultramarathoner William Sichel and Susan Marshall, 2022 winner of the Self-Transcendence 3100 (the world’s longest race). She is especially proud to have contribued to Dr. Mark Cucuzzella’s 1-2-3 Run program for the US Air Force.