About jessica
“Our bodies are sending us messages all the time, it’s up to us to listen.” - Jessica Schatz
Jessica Schatz, The Core Expert®, is a nationally acclaimed movement expert, wellness educator, and founder of Meant To Move®, her overarching movement and wellness philosophy rooted in the belief that movement is essential to how we feel, function, connect, and live.
For more than 30 years, Jessica has used her extensive knowledge, skill, intuition, and heart to help people build stronger relationships with their bodies and themselves. Her work has transformed thousands of lives through The Core Expert®, her signature methodology developed over decades of research, study, and practice.
Meant To Move® is the philosophy at the heart of Jessica’s work, while The Core Expert® is her signature methodology for putting that philosophy into practice. Rooted in Pilates and drawing upon elements of Yoga, Biomechanics, mindfulness, breathwork, and integrative wellness practices, The Core Expert® approach is designed to create core strength in body, mind, heart, and spirit.
From professional athletes and Hollywood stars to stay-at-home moms and individuals navigating different ages, abilities, and chapters of life, Jessica’s work has empowered people around the world to move with greater strength, awareness, confidence, and connection.
Jessica is a featured wellness expert, consultant, and keynote speaker at corporate events, conferences, and retreats, and participates on TV, podcasts, and panels. She is a popular contributor to health and fitness publications (U.S. NEWS; CNN.COM, "THE DOCTORS”; PEOPLE, CBSLA). Yoga, bio-mechanics, and mindfulness practices to create core strength in body, mind, heart, and spirit.
A certified Master Pilates instructor, Yoga and meditation teacher, Integrative Wellness Coach, and Biomechanics Coach, Jessica has spent more than three decades learning how movement can support the whole person — body, mind, heart, and spirit.
A LIFE MEANT TO MOVE®
Jessica’s philosophy grew from her own relationship with movement.
A professionally trained dancer, Jessica began her career as a dance major and went on to perform professionally across the country. Movement and dance were among her greatest strengths, but the physical demands of dancing also led Jessica to search for ways to heal, strengthen, and better understand her own body.
What began as a personal journey became her life’s work.
Through years of study, rehabilitation, teaching, and working with people across different bodies and stages of life, Jessica came to understand movement as something much bigger than exercise. It can be a way to build strength, maintain mobility, reconnect with ourselves, navigate change, and continue participating fully in our lives.
That belief became Meant To Move®.
Today, Meant To Move® brings together Jessica’s movement education, mindfulness practices, wellness experiences, events, speaking, and community around a central belief: we are all meant to move, at every age and every stage of life.
Jessica embraces the mantra of turning “your pain into your purpose,” channeling her own years of study and rehabilitation into work that empowers others to become stronger, more connected versions of themselves throughout every chapter of life.
As Jessica says, “Our wellness journey never ends, and that’s the best part.”