ABOUT CARLA —

Carla's passion for movement and optimum performance began early, growing up in Melbourne, Australia.  The only girl amongst four professional football brothers and father with legendary status, she would go to their training and games and learn the secrets of high performance from world class coaches, sports psychologists, and physiotherapists.

Being the only girl, Carla was driven to outperform her brothers and became hooked on training, wellness, and high performance psychology. Finishing high school in the top 1% of the country, she was accepted into the prestigious University of Melbourne physiotherapy bachelors degree.

After graduating in 2004 with the highest qualifications, she began working in a private clinical practice, primarily treating injuries and chronic conditions. Impassioned by her capacity to truly help people heal and improve their lives through preventative measures, Carla became obsessed with experimenting with a broad spectrum of movement and therapies. Eternally curious and committed to her own personal growth, Carla has studied under many masters of movement within the martial arts, yoga and clinical pilates. The exposure to eastern movement disciplines opened her fully to the intrinsic relationship between body mind and emotions and their impact on facilitating healing with her clients. 

After 2 years of clinical practice in Australia Carla’s work led her to Los Angeles to study and eventually to NYC. After a short time working in a clinic, she attracted the attention of some of New York’s finest talent. Defying the traditional trajectory of a clinical physiotherapist, she was hired to tour with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and A Tribe Called Quest and quickly became the A list therapist with clients including Michael J Fox, Ben Stiller, Daniel Day-Lewis, Clarence Clemons and Q Tip. As her reputation grew, she became a sort after and respected physiotherapist in the city. In 2011 Carla formed Core Living NYC where she and her team continue to treat high performance individuals in the US and online worldwide.

Carla has worked around the world honing her unique approach and elevating her clients to new levels of physical and emotional wellness. Her countless hours of practice have refined her teaching system which she now calls Chain Movement. Carla continues to treat and teach, in person and online and has created Ritam Studio with her husband, meditation teacher Jonni Pollard.