My introduction to yoga was a television show in the 70's, Yoga for Health, with Richard Hittleman. I didn't put yoga into full use in my life until twenty years later, when I was a middle-aged soccer mom. Yoga gave me relief from the overload of responsibilities I had taken on and a better perspective on my life as a whole.
I began teaching in 1993, encouraged by my own teacher to take on some beginning students. I had seen this vision of me teaching yoga many years before, but the time and place were finally right.
In 2001, as Yoga Alliance was just getting on its feet, I completed a two year teacher training program with Bob Smith and Ki McGraw of the Hatha Yoga Center in Seattle. I continued to study yoga, attending Yoga Journal Conferences, seminars and workshops with as many different teachers as I could find. Eventually I focused my study on Kali Ray's TriYoga, although my style has always remained "eclectic," the style of my yoga teacher trainers, Bob and Ki.
Having always had an interest in Chinese Philosophy, I Ching and Feng Shui, I studied both of these at the Emerald Feng Shui Institute in Seattle. Carol Anthony and Hanna Moog have been my I Ching mentors and Gisela Stehr my Feng Shui teacher. I became a certified Feng Shui practitioner in 2010.
My next eclectic branching out was myofascial release techniques which led to studying with Sue Hitzmann and becoming a certified MELT Method instructor in 2012.
I see all these pursuits as being one unified pursuit of Yoga, seeking the many ways in which we can observe the oneness of all things, understand the order of the Universe, sense the subtle world of energy as well as the material world of physics and biology, and utilize this knowledge to experience the Inner Truth that resides in each of us.
It is with great joy that I share whatever I've learned with others so that their lives may be enriched as mine has been through Yoga.