I have been teaching yoga for over 10 years and practicing for over 20 years. In 2005, I completed my 500-hour teacher training with Bobbie Ellis of Yoga Vayu in Highland Park, NJ, and then completed a 200-hour yoga training with Lara Heinmann at Yoga Stream in Princeton, NJ. At the time I was working as a full-time English teacher and knew I needed to balance the rigors of teaching high school with an equally-rigorous yoga practice. So in 2010, I started teaching Hot Yoga in Princeton, and continued practicing this form of yoga for four more years.
Yet after several years of this intense practice and several injuries, not from hot yoga but from one year of playing roller derby, I realized I needed to start moving more slowly and mindfully. When I moved to California in 2015, I returned to Vinyasa but also began to explore the benefits of Yin. Then after a hip replacement in 2019, I discovered Somatic Movement Therapy, a slow and conscious form of movement, and have since integrated Somatic Movement into all forms of yoga. Throughout the ups and downs of life, one constant for me has been yoga. Yoga is my passion, and I hope to share yoga with all of my students, making it accessible to everyone.