Rachel's journey as a dancer began with ballet in 1985 at the Crockett Academy in Sacramento.  Arriving to the central coast in 1994, she continued her studies by combining class schedules from both the Academy of Dance and Pat Jackson's American Dance, where she eventually made a home in the Gilbert Reed Ballet.

Many genres of dance intertwined with her ballet training throughout the 25 years that followed that first introduction to moving, some of which included modern, contemporary, jazz, Flamenco, Indian classical dance, hip-hop, hula, and contact improvisation, and Gaga.  Her investigation into movement eventually lead her to an organic form of moving, which she found in modern dance in 2000, while studying Cunningham technique with Mel Wong at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

At the University of California, Irvine, she learned from ballet master Israel “El” Gabriel, as well as masters of modern movement such as Donald McKayle, Loretta Livingston, and dance in multi-media with Lisa Naugle.  While at UCI, she was exposed to Limon and Cunningham technique, and had the opportunities to dance for faculty, her peers, and the Cunningham Dance Company at the OCPAC.  After graduating in 2007 with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Dance, emphasis in Choreography, she was a principal dancer with Architexture Dance company, a site-specific modern company based out of Laguna Niguel, before moving to Israel for three years.  Here she taught ballet and creative movement while participating heavily in modern dance classes taught by Ohad Naharin and Bat Sheva dancers in her personal time, which introduced her to Naharin's movement language of Gaga.

Rachel has been teaching since 2002, and today her classes offer a strong balance of technique, discipline, fun, challenge, and nurturing of the artist in every participant.