About Me
I found yoga about 10 years ago through a phys ed requirement in college. Throughout the next 5 or so years I dabbled in the practice. It wasn’t until I graduated college in 2006 that I was reunited with my mat in a much more intimate way.I practiced 5 days a week, various styles like Power Vinyasa, Forrest, Vinyasa Flow, and Ashtanga. The more I practiced, the more interested I became in doing a teacher training. My intention was not to become a teacher, but to immerse myself deeper into the transformation that was beginning to take shape. This person that I was becoming, I liked. Soon I realized, that it wasn’t that I was becoming something I wasn’t already, the yoga just revealed to me the beauty and strength that already existed, inherent in my own being.
My training took place at Nosara Yoga Institute in January of 2007 with Don and Amba Stapleton. After receiving my 200 hour Interdisciplinary Teacher Training Certificate, I decided that I wanted to share with others what the practice had and continues to show me. A note about Interdisciplinary Yoga: it is a vinyasa based (linking breath and movement) practice that draws from different disciplines of yoga and meditation where the true teacher in the practice is your own experience.Since my 200 hour training I have also completed a month long intensive with Ana Forrest; immersions with Shiva Rea and Coral Brown in Prana Flow Yoga; immersions with Anne Greene and Todd Norian in Anusara Yoga. I have also done workshops with Richard Freeman, David Swenson, Alanna Kaivalya and the Yogaslackers.
My teaching style is a vinyasa flow based practice that infuses wisdom from all these disciplines using the breath as the guiding force to move and create space in the body. Coupled with a strong emphasis on physical alignment, I teach with compassion and encouragement to listen to the wisdom of your body.
“The body has an intelligence all its own that the mind has yet to fathom.” -Anodea Judith