Before it was a method, it was my recovery.

I began at three years old. By the time I left the competition floor — a Master of Sport, an Armenian Champion, a competitor at the World and European Championships — the sport had shaped every part of how I move. It had also left its mark: the quiet tension, the strain that lingers, the toll that years at that level take on a body.

So I set out to understand the thing the sport had never taught me — how to build flexibility without force, and strength without strain. I trained internationally as a Stretching and Mobility coach, studying the modern, science-based methods that became the foundation of my work.

In time, my own recovery became something I could give to others. In Armenia, I led the country’s first Stretching Seminar and founded the Simakey Rhythmic Gymnastics School, now home to more than 500 children. Since 2019, over 2,000 women and girls have trained with me — moving more freely, standing taller, and carrying less tension than the day they began.

Since 2022, I’ve continued that work in the United States, with adults and children alike. Simakey is built on one quiet conviction: that a body can be beautiful and well at once — and never has to choose.