About

Meet Erin. One patient at a time.

Portrait of Erin Pickus, Lowcountry Movement, against a Charleston live oak

Erin is a licensed Physical Therapist Assistant with more than two decades of movement-teaching experience and a Yoga Alliance 500-hour certification. She started Lowcountry Movement because the clinic world — for all its good — had stopped letting her do the work that actually helps: one person, one hour, one plan, at home.

Her clients are people in the second half of life who want to stay in their homes, their gardens, their boats, their grandkids' weekends. The work is unhurried on purpose. Erin listens first. She asks about what you used to do without thinking, and what you'd like to not think about again.

“The clinic world runs on numbers. This doesn't. You get the full hour, the full attention, and a plan that is only yours.”

That's the whole idea. Drawing on her clinical PTA experience and twenty years of teaching gentle, therapeutic movement, Erin builds a quiet bridge between discharge and the life you had before — or, often, a little better than before.

Credentials

Trained, licensed, and certified.

Yoga Alliance CYT‑500Registered 500-hour certified yoga teacher
Licensed PTAPhysical Therapist Assistant, South Carolina
CPR & First AidAmerican Heart Association, current
20+ YearsClinical rehab & therapeutic movement teaching
Path

A practice, built slowly.

2004 →

Began teaching yoga

First 200-hour certification. Early years focused on alignment and the quiet end of the practice — restorative, gentle flow, breath.

2011 →

500-hour teacher training

Deepened into therapeutic movement — shapes, modifications, and breath for bodies that are recovering, aging, or carrying pain.

2017 →

PTA licensure

Clinical training and licensure as a Physical Therapist Assistant. Years in outpatient orthopedics and geriatrics across the lowcountry.

2026 →

Lowcountry Movement

Left the clinic to bring one-on-one wellness home — to Daniel Island, Mount Pleasant, Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island and downtown Charleston.

How Erin works

Three quiet rules of the practice.

i.

Listen first.

Before the plan, before the movement — your story, your goals, your doctor's notes. Every session starts with how today actually feels.

ii.

Meet you where you are.

Chair, floor, standing, or on a walk around the block — we work in the body you have right now, and progress only when it makes sense.

iii.

One at a time.

No group classes. No double-booking. The hour is yours, and the plan between visits is yours too.

A note on scope of practice

Lowcountry Movement provides mobility training, therapeutic movement, and wellness coaching grounded in Erin's experience as a licensed PTA and 500-hour certified movement teacher. It is not a substitute for physical therapy prescribed and supervised by a licensed physical therapist or physician. Erin works within the scope of her current credentials and coordinates with your care team when relevant.

Next step

Have a cup of coffee with Erin.

Twenty minutes, by phone, no charge. She'll tell you — honestly — whether she's the right fit for where you are now.