I picked up the name “Shiva” in college before ever trying my first yoga class at the age of 19. Since then I’ve been magnetically drawn to the practice and once I started teaching 3 years later in 2001 I knew I’d be doing it for the rest of my life. Yoga brings me back to that radiant aliveness within that I see in each persons’ eyes. Truth, love, and discernment are my guideposts when I lead my yoga classes, which I consider to be ceremonies designed to reveal that diamond within. We burn away the covering through tapas, the heat of practice, either physical heat or the fire created by single pointed focus. The yoga ceremony is like a crucible which we enter willingly to cook and refine our essence into a graceful, loving, open human being. I am eternally grateful to the teachers who have touched my heart: Shiva Rea, Ana Forrest, Christopher Hareesh Wallis, Satu Tuomela, Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Christina Sell and Dr. Vasant Lad. I am first a student and will always seek to evolve, grow, and transform so that I can be a hollow bamboo through which the teachings of yoga can pour.

In addition to my 200 hour and 500 hour RYT Certifications, I have trained at the IYT school for 250 hours, I am a Prana Vinyasa Certified teacher and I run a Registered Yoga School: Destination Within, as well as local and international retreats.