BIO

Naomi Sawyer is a physical therapist at Northeast Rehab Hospital, a Certified Vestibular Therapist, a ballet instructor and principal dancer for Northeastern Ballet Theatre (NBT), and has worked as a per-diem therapist for the Boston Ballet. Naomi has served her community working primarily in outpatient neuro-rehab over the past twenty years. As a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, she continues to explore the human body’s capacities for healing and growth through learning and movement. She provides screenings, treatments, and classes on injury prevention, optimization, and conditioning to dancers, instructors, and ballet studios in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont.

Dance and health are two of Naomi’s greatest passions in life, and—as a professional therapist and artist—she sees it as her life’s calling to share the knowledge, skills, experience, and resources she’s acquired over the years with the community of artists she so loves. Working with dancers and seeing them grow in understanding and becoming equipped to care for their bodies well is her most rewarding work. Naomi aims to provide a whole-dancer approach, acknowledging all parts within us that must work together to move more freely.

Naomi lives with her family in Plaistow, New Hampshire. Outside of work, Naomi loves the time she gets to spend with her husband and two teenagers. Homeschooling, cooking meals, watching movies, and exploring nature reservations and historic sites keep family life fun and active!