BIO ON TANYA L WEIKER, PT
Tanya is a Holistic Physical Therapist with over 18 years of practice and expertise in direct patient care and clinical classroom instruction. She has a passion for and a belief in hands-on manual therapies that reduce pain, diminish dysfunction, prevent disease processes, restore movement and balance and help you reclaim life. She works closely with her clients by integrating Myofascial Release Therapy, Muscle Energy Technique, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, and other manual energy techniques into her own body analyses and discoveries.
Well known for her drive and determination in helping and supporting her clients, Tanya treats holistically embracing all aspects of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. She views herself as a guide through a highly personalized, one-on-one experience of recovery and healing. Working with Tanya you can expect to find a respectful, intuitive, curious, compassionate, fun, and very skilled and experienced therapist. Acknowledged for her ‘art of listening to the body and spirit,’ she has an attuned way of working with trauma survivors. Tanya unconditionally strives for a harmonious way to blend manual therapies into sessions that reach every human being she treats. Thus, continuously explores new research, theories, practices, and ideas and seeks higher and better ways of healing for all she of her clients.
Building upon her career as the primary therapist for Cleveland Clinic’s multi-disciplinary spine team and the developer of Stability Ball Theory and Exercise, Tanya founded a training and coaching firm, Spherica LLC, over a decade ago that she still runs today with her sister, Heidi. Together, they design and deliver innovative and relevant workshops for youth, adults and trauma survivors. Tanya also consults for various Fortune 500 companies and large hospital systems, where she is an acclaimed educator on the physiology of both the stress reaction and the relaxation response, as well as body mechanics and movement in relationship to personal and occupational safety. She is a Black Level Advanced Thera-Band Instructor for Performance Health, where she co-designs product specs, videos, instructions, and photo shoots. And, she is a nationally acknowledged presenter amongst her peers, as wells as Physicians.
Her leisure time is filled with reading, music and dance, fitness, traveling, and volunteering with inner city youth. She loves to write and is working on two more books in a series that begins with the published book, just Be. Tanya is grateful for her steadfast faith, her loving family and friends, her dog (aka: furry kid) Kincaide and her own personal healing journey.
Well known for her drive and determination in helping and supporting her clients, Tanya treats holistically embracing all aspects of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. She views herself as a guide through a highly personalized, one-on-one experience of recovery and healing. Working with Tanya you can expect to find a respectful, intuitive, curious, compassionate, fun, and very skilled and experienced therapist. Acknowledged for her ‘art of listening to the body and spirit,’ she has an attuned way of working with trauma survivors. Tanya unconditionally strives for a harmonious way to blend manual therapies into sessions that reach every human being she treats. Thus, continuously explores new research, theories, practices, and ideas and seeks higher and better ways of healing for all she of her clients.
Building upon her career as the primary therapist for Cleveland Clinic’s multi-disciplinary spine team and the developer of Stability Ball Theory and Exercise, Tanya founded a training and coaching firm, Spherica LLC, over a decade ago that she still runs today with her sister, Heidi. Together, they design and deliver innovative and relevant workshops for youth, adults and trauma survivors. Tanya also consults for various Fortune 500 companies and large hospital systems, where she is an acclaimed educator on the physiology of both the stress reaction and the relaxation response, as well as body mechanics and movement in relationship to personal and occupational safety. She is a Black Level Advanced Thera-Band Instructor for Performance Health, where she co-designs product specs, videos, instructions, and photo shoots. And, she is a nationally acknowledged presenter amongst her peers, as wells as Physicians.
Her leisure time is filled with reading, music and dance, fitness, traveling, and volunteering with inner city youth. She loves to write and is working on two more books in a series that begins with the published book, just Be. Tanya is grateful for her steadfast faith, her loving family and friends, her dog (aka: furry kid) Kincaide and her own personal healing journey.
