About Me
I was never an athletic child, but had to take either basketball or dance to fulfill a high school requirement. I figured that at least ballet didn’t involve hand-eye coordination. I soon found that I enjoyed ballet because it helped me discover my body and unite it with my mind by focusing them on the same task. It gave me a sense of awareness and flow that I loved. Years later when I had to stop dancing due to an old ankle injury, I thought I would never enjoy exercise again. Thankfully, my older (and wiser) sister “bullied” me into buying a monthly pass at a local yoga studio. I soon discovered that I had found something even better than ballet. My teachers taught me to use my breath to unite body and mind and cultivate a deep reaching awareness of sensation. It was revolutionary.
Class Style
My classes are accessible to and challenging for people at all levels of physical ability. Whether your goal is to gain a little strength or flexibility, work to ease pain and injury, or to do advanced poses, I believe the best route is to use breath and develop deep feeling and awareness. It’s with this in mind that I seek to offer my students the tools to foster the mind-body connection.
I teach both Forrest and Vinyasa/Flow and draw on a wide variety of influences to create my classes. Rather than following one style, my teaching is informed by my own practice, which is based around a search for alignment, balance, strength, and flexibility. I graduated from both the Forrest Yoga Foundation and Advanced teacher trainings as well as the Forrest Yoga Mentorship program, and I have assisted the Forrest Yoga Foundation Teacher Training, and this April I will assist the Advanced Teacher Training. My search has led me from classes with local teachers wherever I have lived or traveled, to workshops with a slew of well known teachers, to various body-work modalities. As far as I'm concerned, the more I know and the more tools I have, the better.
Yoga is playtime for me, so above all I think yoga should be fun. If it’s not fun, why do it?