I began my yoga journey in the spring of 2009 in McCall, Idaho, when I was recovering from cancer.  My wife and I began attending yoga classes together, and we became fully involved in a wonderful local yoga community. Essentially, yoga helped bring me back to life. I have since retired from a 40+ year professional career in the environmental sciences, natural resources management/restoration, and weekend whitewater river guiding and ski patrolling.

I completed the Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) program in the summer 2015 through Tantra Power Yoga in McCall. This well-rounded training from a knowledgeable and talented team emphasizes the elements of classical yoga, including study of the classic texts, yoga history and theory, and asana (postures), pranayama (breath energy), and meditation.

Initially I undertook yoga teacher training only to expand my own knowledge and practice of this ancient science of body, mind and spirit.   However, when one our yoga teachers at the local YMCA in Wenatchee, Washington, lost her house to wildfire in the summer of 2015 and needed time off to rebuild, I volunteered and have been teaching there regularly since then.

I thoroughly enjoy teaching yoga, especially to those with some physical limitations, and/or those who may not envision themselves in the stereotypical gym or studio setting.  I find it extremely gratifying to help bring yoga to people of all levels of practice, because doing so advances and enriches my own. 

I am especially inspired by yoga as it was developed over the millennia ago, and practiced in astounding beauty, in the natural environment with all its elements, as a means for humans to come to realize their true selves and nature and place within the infinite universe. I am extremely grateful for the recent opportunity to serve as the yoga instructor for sea kayaking trips in the Sea of Cortez (Baja California Sur, Mexico) for a company that has become a truly world-class and world-wide adventure travel operation (and for whom I was a former whitewater river guide in my perhaps somewhat mis-spent youth).

Namaste