Heal. Move. Shine.
One-on-one pelvic health physical therapy and Pilates with Dr. Moon, DPT.
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Welcome to Shine Wellness.
I'm Moon, and for over twenty years I've believed that your body is like your home. It deserves ongoing care, not just repairs when something breaks.
At Shine Wellness, we specialize in pelvic health, orthopedic physical therapy, Pilates, health coaching, and strength and conditioning, all built around a simple idea: your body tells the story of your life, and healing means looking at the whole person.
Whether you're preparing for motherhood, recovering from it, moving through midlife, or simply want to feel strong and capable in the body you have, we're here to help you do the maintenance now so you can thrive later. Sessions are offered in my private home studio and virtually, in a space designed to feel personal, warm, and unhurried.
Why injuries keep coming back
Pain relief alone doesn't fix what caused the injury. Underlying muscle imbalances, motor control issues, and the movement patterns your body developed to compensate are usually still there, which is why the same problem tends to resurface, sometimes in a new spot. At Shine, that root-cause work is exactly what we specialize in: not just treating the injury, but retraining the patterns behind it so it stays fixed.
Does any of this sound familiar?
These are common. That does not make them normal.
Men experience pelvic floor conditions too.
Care built around you
Pelvic Health PT
Pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and cancer recovery. Includes biofeedback so you can see your pelvic floor working in real time.
Pilates
Private, clinically guided Pilates that builds deep core strength and confident movement. Single sessions or packages.
Virtual Sessions
Not on Oʻahu, or prefer to start from home? Ideal for education, health coaching, home programs, and follow-up care.
Dr. Moon, DPT
She understands, personally.
Twenty-three years as a physical therapist, with a background spanning orthopedics, women's health, and strength and conditioning. Her own knee injury and surgery first opened her eyes to what physical therapy could do.
The birth of her two children, and the realization that most women receive inadequate pelvic health care, led her to specialize in the care she wished had existed for her. She now supports women through the full female lifespan: pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, cancer recovery, and beyond.
When she is not with patients, she is in the ocean, swimming, surfing, and diving the waters of Oʻahu with her husband and two children.
- Doctor of Physical Therapy, University of Southern California, 2003
- Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with honors, UCLA
- Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
- Certified Pilates Instructor
- Certified Health Coach
Advanced pelvic health training
Over ten specialized continuing education courses in pelvic health, including biofeedback training through the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute, one of the most respected organizations in the field.
She treats the whole body
Pelvic Health
Across every stage of life
Orthopedic and Whole Body
Twenty-three years of orthopedic practice
Orthopedic PT
Frozen shoulder, hip and knee pain, sciatica, and everyday aches. Twenty-three years of whole-body clinical experience.
Simple, and never rushed
Book a free consultation
Tell her a little about what is going on. Dr. Moon reviews every submission personally.
Your first visit
75 minutes: your history, a full assessment, and a clear plan. Nothing happens without your consent.
Keep going
60-minute follow-ups and a MedBridge home program, so progress continues between sessions.
An investment in your health
A cash-pay practice, which means no insurance gatekeeping and no rushed appointments. Request current rates using the form below.
PT Sessions
- 75-minute initial evaluation
- 60-minute follow-up sessions
- Pelvic health and orthopedic care
- Biofeedback as needed
- MedBridge home program
- Superbill on request
Pilates Packages
- 60-minute private sessions
- Single session option
- Package bundles for savings
- Guided by Dr. Moon, DPT
- Tailored to your body
- MedBridge home program
PT and Pilates
- PT evaluation and follow-ups
- Pilates sessions integrated
- One seamless treatment plan
- Biofeedback as needed
- MedBridge home program
- Superbill on request
Something more bespoke
For anyone wanting Dr. Moon to build and run the whole thing, there are three Elite formats.
See the Elite FormatsCash pay, with reimbursement options
Superbill for insurance
Dr. Moon can provide a superbill, an itemized receipt you submit to your insurance provider for potential out-of-network reimbursement. Most commonly used with:
Reimbursement is not guaranteed and depends on your plan's out-of-network benefits. Confirm coverage with your insurer before your first visit.
HSA and FSA eligible
Physical therapy is generally eligible for reimbursement through Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts. Dr. Moon provides the documentation you need to submit, so pre-tax dollars can go toward your care.
Confirm eligibility with your HSA or FSA administrator.
When you want it built around you
These are offered by inquiry while Dr. Moon gauges interest, so nothing here is a fixed package yet. Tell her what you are working toward and she will tell you honestly whether one of these fits.
Three ways to work with Dr. Moon at the Elite level
Every Elite plan is built for one person, so it is quoted for one person. Tell Dr. Moon what you are working toward and she will tell you which format fits, or that none of them do.
The Three-Month Rebuild
For rebuilding after birth, after treatment, or after years of putting it off.
- Extended 90-minute evaluation
- Five one-to-one sessions, PT or Pilates or blended
- A written strength program, progressed as you go
- Nutrition cheat sheets and practical guidance on habits, timing and recovery, not a prescribed plan
- Messaging access between sessions
- A closing reassessment measured against your baseline
Five sessions and a closing reassessment, across twelve weeks.
Concierge In-Home
For the person whose calendar will not hold a standing weekly appointment.
- Dr. Moon travels to you anywhere on Oʻahu
- For clients with their own reformer at home. She brings small accessories, not equipment
- A full 90 unhurried minutes
- Scheduling priority, including outside standard hours
- A written plan after every visit
- Available singly or in blocks of four or eight
Ninety minutes, no travel time on your end.
The Reset Week
For visitors, milestone birthdays, and anyone wanting to start all at once.
- Five consecutive days of sessions
- Sixty to ninety minutes each day
- A full-body movement screen on day one
- A take-home program filmed with you doing the movements
- Two virtual follow-ups, at thirty and ninety days
- A partner can join at a reduced rate
One week, then two check-ins over the next three months.
Elite plans are quoted individually. Send a note through the form and Dr. Moon will reply with a plan and a figure.
Biofeedback, and seeing your progress
Biofeedback makes the invisible visible. See it, feel it, control it.
Dr. Moon is trained in pelvic floor biofeedback through the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute, and has completed over ten specialized courses in pelvic health.
This matters because so many of my clients have unknowingly trained their pelvic floor into a chronic guarding pattern, holding tension all day to prevent leakage without realizing it’s happening. That constant bracing actually works against them: it shortens the muscle’s range and makes it harder to contract properly when it counts. Others end up relying on their abs to “help,” which just crowds out the pelvic floor doing its own job.
One of the most useful parts of this tool is that I can test you in three positions: lying down, sitting, and standing. Pelvic floor activity changes as you add gravity demands, so a muscle pattern that looks fine lying down can look completely different once you’re upright. That gives us a much more honest, real-world picture of what your pelvic floor is actually doing.
Biofeedback lets us catch these patterns early. It gives me, as the clinician, a clear picture of what’s really going on instead of guessing, so we can retrain the right muscles, in the right way, and build lasting control instead of just managing symptoms.
What biofeedback does
Small sensors measure electrical activity in your pelvic floor muscles and display it on a screen as you work. You can watch your muscles respond, contracting when they should and releasing when they need to. This accelerates learning considerably, particularly for patients who have tried Kegel exercises without result.
Urinary incontinence
Learn to correctly activate the muscles that control leakage.
Dyspareunia, or painful sex
Release an overactive pelvic floor to restore comfort and intimacy.
Bladder control and urgency
Retrain coordination between the pelvic floor and the bladder.
Constipation and bowel dysfunction
Learning to relax the pelvic floor matters as much as strengthening it.
Labor preparation
Pelvic floor relaxation and labor breathing techniques.
A lot of sport. Almost no strength.
Kids this age are playing club soccer, volleyball and gymnastics four and five days a week, year round. Most of them have never done a single session of strength or power work. They get speed ladders and agility cones, built on top of a foundation that is not there yet.
What is actually happening in a ten to fourteen year old
Somewhere in this window most kids hit their growth spurt. Girls reach peak height velocity around eleven and a half, boys around thirteen and a half, and the spread around those averages is wide.
Bone lengthens first. Muscle and tendon catch up afterward, and tendon thickens more slowly than the muscle pulling on it. For a while the levers get longer while the brakes stay the same size.
Coordination takes a step backward at the same time. Balance, running mechanics and change of direction all get temporarily worse, in a child who is being asked to do more of all three.
This is why the traction injuries cluster in exactly this age group. Osgood-Schlatter at the knee, Sever’s at the heel, Sinding-Larsen-Johansson at the kneecap. Each one is a tendon pulling hard on a growth plate that has not closed yet. They are load problems, not bad luck.
hours, for a twelve-year-old
Weekly hours of organized sport and training should not exceed the athlete’s age in years.
days off, every week
A minimum of two days away from organized training and competition.
months, not twelve
No more than eight months a year in any single sport.
Guidance from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. The American Academy of Pediatrics adds at least three months of downtime across the year, taken in one-month blocks rather than all at once. Most families do this arithmetic once and find they are well over, and that is the conversation worth having before anything else.
What the screen covers
Every athlete starts here. It takes about an hour and it produces a written report you keep.
Where they are in the growth spurt
Estimated from height measurements rather than birthday. Two kids the same age can be two years apart in maturity, and they should not be trained the same way.
How they absorb force
Landing, decelerating and changing direction, which is where most non-contact injuries happen and where almost nobody looks.
Single-leg control
Nearly every action in sport happens on one leg. Very few young athletes are trained that way.
Side-to-side differences
Asymmetries a kid has quietly been compensating for, often for a long time.
Ankle and hip range
Restrictions that push load somewhere it was never meant to go.
The actual week
Hours, sessions, travel, the sport calendar, and everything else stacked on top of it.
The report says what was found, what it means, and what to do about it, whether or not your athlete trains with Dr. Moon afterward.
What the training looks like
Learning to absorb, not just produce
Landing, stopping and changing direction under control. Speed work sits on top of this, not instead of it.
Technique before load
Strength at this age is mostly the nervous system learning to use what is already there. Resistance stays light until the movement holds up.
Adjusted as they grow
A kid in the middle of a growth spurt needs something different from the same kid eight months later.
One clinician, not two
Run by a physical therapist who is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist, so the screening and the training are the same conversation.
The two questions every parent asks
“Will lifting stunt his growth?”
No, and this is the most persistent myth in youth sport. The American Academy of Pediatrics is direct about it: appropriately designed resistance training programs have “no apparent negative effect on linear growth, physeal health, or the cardiovascular system.” The words that matter are appropriately designed, which is a question about supervision and technique, not about age.
“He already trains five days a week. Where would this fit?”
The five days is usually the first thing to look at, not the last. When something does get added it is two short sessions, and it often replaces a touch session rather than stacking on top of one. A week that is already too full is a reason to have the conversation, not a reason to skip it.
This started with my own twelve-year-old. He is on the soccer field five days a week and he is, to put it kindly, a bowl of jello. Fast, willing, and completely unable to control a body that keeps changing shape on him.
Once I started paying attention I saw the same thing everywhere I looked. Kids doing an enormous amount of sport and no strength work at all, in the exact years when their bodies need it most. Nobody is doing anything wrong. It simply is not part of how youth sport is set up right now.
These sessions are offered by inquiry while Dr. Moon builds the program and gauges interest, so nothing here is a fixed package yet. Start with a free consultation, tell her what your athlete is playing and how often, and she will tell you honestly whether this is worth your time.
Your body fought hard.
Now let's help it heal.
Cancer treatment, particularly for breast, gynecologic, colorectal, and bladder cancers, leaves lasting effects on the pelvic floor that are rarely discussed and even more rarely treated.
Dr. Moon offers a safe and informed space where survivors can address these changes and genuinely reclaim their quality of life.
Every survivor is met with respect for their story, physical, emotional, and relational. Care meets you wherever you are in your recovery, and grows with you as you heal.
Breast cancer recovery
Hormonal therapy side effects, dryness, pain, and changes in intimacy.
Gynecologic cancers
Post-surgical rehabilitation, scar tissue, bladder and bowel dysfunction.
Radiation-related changes
Tissue fibrosis, pelvic pain, bowel and bladder urgency.
Post-treatment fatigue
Gentle, progressive movement to rebuild strength safely.
Good to know
Your first visit is 75 minutes and starts with a conversation about your history, symptoms, and goals. A physical assessment follows, which may include an internal pelvic floor exam, always explained fully and only with your consent. You leave with a clear plan and a home program. Follow-ups are 60 minutes.
No. You can reach out directly. If you have recent imaging, surgical notes, or records from your OB/GYN or oncologist, those are helpful but not required.
Cash pay means Dr. Moon can give every patient the time they actually need. You get 75 minutes for your evaluation and 60 at every follow-up. She provides a superbill you can submit to your insurer, most commonly HMAA, HMSA, and Tricare. HSA and FSA funds are generally eligible.
Yes, and it is one of the most impactful things you can do for your recovery. Radiation, surgery, and hormonal therapies affect pelvic floor function in ways that are rarely treated. Dr. Moon will coordinate with your oncology team as needed.
Yes. Dr. Moon works with athletes aged roughly 10 to 14 who are playing a lot of sport and doing little or no strength work, which is most of them. It starts with a screen that looks at where they are in their growth spurt, how they absorb force, and what their week actually looks like. On the question parents ask first: the American Academy of Pediatrics is clear that appropriately designed resistance training programs have no apparent negative effect on linear growth, physeal health, or the cardiovascular system. Dr. Moon is a certified strength and conditioning specialist as well as a physical therapist.
Yes. Men experience pelvic floor conditions too, including incontinence, pelvic pain, and post-prostate-surgery recovery, and they are treated far less often than they should be. Dr. Moon also sees men for orthopedic care, Pilates, and strength and conditioning.
Every patient is different, and Dr. Moon will give you an honest picture after your evaluation. Some see meaningful progress in four to six sessions. The goal is always to give you the tools to maintain your progress on your own.
What patients say
As a 76-year-old lady, I was extremely reluctant to attempt physical therapy, believing my varied (and embarrassing) symptoms were the inevitable result of childbirth and age and were irreversible. Boy, was I wrong! With patience and compassion, Moon re-educated me, giving me realistic exercises and changes in routines that had an immediate positive impact. Long after my sessions ended, I continue to improve, affecting my quality of life enormously.Joan V.
Moon has helped me through all stages of pregnancy, post partum and motherhood. I have learned so much from her and am beyond grateful for the ability to be the best version of myself through her PT sessions. Worth EVERY penny and more.Liz M.
When you survive Breast Cancer you don't realize all the scarring and other issues that come up. Moon has made ALL the difference in the world addressing my survivor effects and regaining my life.Michelle T.
I had gone to so many cookie cutter PTs who simply prescribed exercises but didn't treat me holistically or dig into second and third order effects. She saved me from needing hip surgery.Aaron C.
Maya S.Moon Moniot is an extraordinary physical therapist whose knowledge, compassion, and commitment to healing set her apart.
She combines deep expertise with genuine attentiveness: listening closely, noticing what others overlook, and tailoring every exercise and treatment to what my body needs in that moment. Nothing ever feels routine.
Her hands-on bodywork is deeply restorative, and the exercises she gives me have helped me become an active participant in my own healing. What stands out most is her whole-body approach. She understands the body as an interconnected system and has helped me not just with movement and pain, but with sleep, digestion, and stress.
She remembers what we've discussed, checks in, adjusts as needed, and never rushes me. I always leave feeling fully seen.
Shannon K.Moon is amazing. I’ve lived with back pain and leaking ever since my pregnancy 13 years ago, mostly just masking it with ibuprofen. It wasn’t until I completely threw my back out and could barely walk that I finally saw her.
She helped me realize my pelvic floor was weak, my core was unstable, and my posture was poor. It is crazy how interconnected our bodies are. My back was just the symptom, not the cause.
Moon gave me simple daily exercises, and now I feel like I did before childbirth. My back pain is mostly gone, the leaking is so much better, and I have my flat stomach back with a few defined abs! If you have been quietly suffering for years like I did, do not wait, go see Moon. She is absolutely amazing.
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