I created a system that combines positive Psychology, Mindfulness, & Yoga with Counseling.

Twenty years after my father died suddenly, I took a yoga class, I hated it. I judged everyone around me, and I left class early.

A year later, lured by promotion and bored of the gym, I tried yoga again. Thirty minutes into an hour class of hot yoga where I started off thinking I needed a pedicure and wondered if I should stop at a store for electrolytes and pringles after class; I suddenly started having vivid memories of my father. How odd, I thought? I am over this. I never think of my father or his death. That’s long gone, but my body told me otherwise, my body had a memory and wisdom my rational mind did not. I had no idea what I was doing in yoga class. It felt hard, it felt expensive, I felt out of place, it felt like a language and a club I wasn’t part of, but I didn’t care, I wanted to know more about these odd memories I was having. What was my body trying to tell me?

Having been trained as a clinical therapist, I, then, began training as a yoga instructor. I received my 200 HR training in Power yoga and my 300 HR in Hatha yoga and continued as a student of mindfulness, receiving further certifications in Yin Yoga, Mindfulness, Kemetic Yoga, Kids Yoga, and Kundalini Yoga. I went on to certify & train others through their 200 HR teacher training, leading hundreds of classes, training, and workshops.

I began work in an innovative expressive therapy department, working with inpatient and outpatient mental health patients at a hospital using yoga and ‘body work’ to help patients with no prior yoga experience deal with major depression, anxiety, grief, addiction, bipolar I & II, eating disorders, trauma, ADHD, adults, children, and adolescents benefited. I learned how yoga, mindfulness, and breathwork, can help across the board with mild to severe mental health struggles and emotional regulation.

The body has healing within it.