I practice yoga to keep discipline in my life and to keep my mind, body and spirit in good health. What I encounter on my mat is practice for everything else. Yoga is my way of life and the more I practice and learn; the more my viewpoint and my way of life shifts into balance. Yoga is a practice of balance and moderation. Yoga is a way to live with consciousness; focusing on the matters at hand and making choices with complete awareness. Yoga is an orderly way of living, allowing for one’s stream of consciousness to become crystal clear. A merging of the personal stream of consciousness into the collective consciousness of all that has ever existed, all that exists now and all that ever will exist. A merging into all space and time and beyond. A merging into the deepest nature of self and deeper into the deepest universal being. Yoga is Yin and Yang. All of space and time is yoga. Yoga is the mother of love and creativity and the father of efficiency and razor sharp awareness. Yoga is merging the solid and the ethereal and a melting away of what is not needed anymore. A melting into now. A constant cleansing and awakening, growing, dying and renewal. Yoga is life.
I have been studying and practicing Ashtanga Yoga philosophy and asana since 1998. After 10 years of practicing and studying I decided to help spread the love by teaching as well, but I still consider myself first and foremost a student. I have been teaching yoga at the Front Climbing Club in Salt Lake City since 2010 and have continued to study as much as possible with my favorite teachers.
I am so grateful to be part of a lineage that has brought inner abundance and harmony, and outer discipline and health to my life and well as the lives of many others around the world. Experiencing a deeply rooted yoga practice can bring insight into the meaning of the experience of life.
Teaching
- Mysore and led Ashtanga Yoga at the Front Climbing Club since 2010
- Yoga program director at the Front Climbing Club, SLC since 2017
- Guest lecturer and workshop provider at The University of Utah, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Guest lecturer and workshop at Yoga Assets Teacher training, SLC 2019
- Guest lecturer at Mudita Yoga teacher training, 2017
- taught Ashtanga Yoga at Centered City Yoga, Wasatch Ayurveda, Salt Lake Power Yoga, and other SLC Yoga Studios 2011- 2017
Studies, accreditations and workshops:
- Coming up in December 2019 & January 2020: 2 month Ashtanga Yoga Study at Sharath Yoga center in Mysore, India with Guru R. Sharath Jois and 2 month Sanskrit, chanting and yoga philosopy study with Lakshmisha Bhat
- March 2019, month long Ashtanga Yoga at KPJAYI in Mysore, India with Guru R. Sharath Jois
- March 2019, month long Sanskrit 1 & 2, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutra classes with Lakshmisha Bhat at KPJAYI in Mysore India
- October 2018, Namarupa Yatra with Paramaguru Sharath R. Jois, Robert Moses and Eddie Stern, Himalayas, India
- January 29-February 2, 2018, Advanced training with Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor
- 6 day Led Intermediate and Primary Series Workshop and conferences with Guru R. Sharath Jois in Los Angeles, California, June 2017
- Month long study with Paramaguru R. Sharath Jois at KPJAYI in Mysore, India, November 2016
- Sanskrit 1 and 2, Bhagavad Gita, chanting and Hatha Yoga Pradipika study with Lakshmisha Bhat through KPJAYI, Mysore, India, November 2016
- 6 day Led Intermediate and Primary Series Workshop and conferences with R. Sharath Jois in Los Angeles, California, June 2016
- 5 day Essentials Intensive with Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor in Boulder Colorado, January 2014
- 6 day Led Intermediate and Primary Series workshop with Sharath Jois in Los Angeles, California, September 2014
- 200 hour Ashtanga Teacher Intensive from Richard Freeman‘s Ashtanga Teacher’s Intensive including 4 hour hands on anatomy labs in Boulder Colorado, 2012 with Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor
- Month long Sanskrit Study with Marcia Solomon in Boulder Colorado, 2012
- Weeklong Yoga Intensive: Buddha and the Yogis: the Vajra Body 2011 in Phoenicia, New York with Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor, John Campbell and Robert Thurman (professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University)
- Week long Ashtanga Mysore study with Rolf and Marci Naujokat in Goa, India, 2011
- 20 hour Intensive Ayurveda Study in Kerala, India, 2009
- 200 hour Yoga Alliance Ashtanga training with Caroline Klebl in Kerala, India, 2009
I am grateful to have learned from so many amazing Ashtanga teachers; Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor, Samuel Brown, Jeff Silverstein, David Miliotis, Devorah Sacks, Chad Herst, Vance Selover, Catherine Shaddix, Rolf and Marci Naujokat and Eddie Stern.