Now Begins The Practice Of Yoga: Private And Group Lessons

You are made unique. Physically, mentally, experientially, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and wonderfully. Which is why you deserve personal attention.

Do you want to form a better relationship with yourself? Do you want to trust and love your body? Develop creativity and playfulness? Implement stress-relieving tools? Transmute anger, pain, and sadness into healthy, expressive, and mindful movement? Support and improve nervous, respiratory, and digestive systems? Improve coordination, balance, flexibility, and posture? Build discipline? Mindfulness? Fluidity? Control?

Do you want to form better relationships with your family, friends, co-workers, and the greater world? Do you want to build a home practice? A life practice?

Whatever your goals, I am here to help you shake up thought patterns and learned behaviors, to dance it out, to soften, to strengthen, to get to the root, and to deconstruct yoga so that yoga and you can meet on level ground, exactly where you are, as you are.

I enjoy fascilitating the practice and tradition of yoga and watching it seed and sprout in another. I'm mesmerized watching this process unfold within myself, too.

In 2012, a friend invited me to go to a yoga class with her after school. I agreed. Easy. "Why not?" At the studio, a sign told me to, "Slow down. Don't hurry. Don't worry. Trust the process." I can't remember my first class, and I can't remember my 50th, but the words on that sign and those practices began weaving their way into my thought patterns. Yoga let me hold on so I could float.

In 2015, I began teaching at my college's recreation center. In the summer of 2016, I received my 200-hour certification under the guidance of Mary Byerly at Panacea de la Montagne in Costa Rica. While teaching various formats of yoga to staff and students at my college, I also expanded my audience and taught at both a local studio and wellness center. At the studio, I taught pranayama, meditation, and asana in community-based classes. At the wellness center, I taught gentle yoga, restorative yoga and meditation, chair yoga for those with a limited range of motion, and mindful movement for children.

When I graduated college, I hopped on a plane and began a 3-week individual intensive with my teacher in Costa Rica for continuing education. Currently, I am studying with Alexandria Crow in a year-long program called "Deconstruct to Reconsctruct."

With little and big accomplishments along the way, I am here, and I am still practicing and studying through direct experience, ancient text, and modern interpretation.

Yoga has taught me to explore myself, my relationships, and the natural and contrived world with love, attention and patience. This practice cultivates intention; it's a creation of moment-to-moment awareness, all while honoring every piece and bringing shadow to light. Forever a teacher and a student, always learning from you and from the ancient ones. I'm here to hold space for you as you honor your authenticity. I'm here to live my yoga as you live yours.