I build my classes from poetic, spiritual, archetypal and artistic themes that are explored through music, movement and mapping of our energy bodies.  Class can also can be more focused on bones and muscles to support the healing of injuries or surgery.   I teach using ethical and healing touch that is informed by my Reiki training as well as extensive research into the science of touch that I apply in teaching adjustments in Yoga Teacher Trainings. If desired, I incorporate consensual, non-sexual touch into sessions.  I also fully honor clients who prefer hands off interaction. I have extensively studied Yoga philosophy and I prefer working with clients who are interested in learning Yoga beyond the postures and with connections to its roots in philosophy.

I am halfway through a 3 year Somatic Experiencing® (SE) certification program which is a body based trauma healing modality. Its founder Dr. Peter Levine’s main premise is that trauma is not in the past or in the event itself. Rather it lives in the present as it is being held in the physiology of our Autonomic Nervous System. Through gentle conversation and body awareness, the modality helps the nervous system discharge frozen energy in the ANS so our bodies can complete our natural and inborn healing responses.

Meditation is a radical journey into the depths of your consciousness to discover how to love yourself and others. Barring illness or times of extreme business and stress, I have studied and practiced it almost every day of my life since 2012. My lineage is Tibetan Buddhism, though I am greatly influenced by all styles. I have also studied cross-spiritual traditions, indigenous healing, Catholicism, secular and somatic meditation techniques.

If you are looking to activate your creative side, we can definitely go there! Along with my B.A. in Fine Arts, my Masters in Landscape Architecture and my years of art and space making, I have been a professional window designer for Antrhopologie . Currently I the Author and Artist of the Share Your Heart Project whose main premise is that making art is healing and we all have a right to discover our muse. I often bring the Share Your Heart Project into work with clients to connect them to the incredible healing power of ritual. I have taught many creatives and creativity workshops and seeing people blossom into their gifts brings me the most joy.

I have worked with companies like Gossamer Gear, Head Start, AgeSong, Wallace Roberts and Todd, and EcoR1 Capital for both daily wellness and more structured retreats. I work with Off Trail On Track to facilitate ultra-light backpacking and yoga immersions. Throughout the pandemic I have collaborated with other teachers to lead regular rituals through the women’s group MuzeDaze.

I bring in my artistic background to create unique events that blend movement and easy to engage art for people to express themselves. I would love to work with you to co-create or host an event with your group and for your purpose.

I love art and design. I work at lots of scales from arranging flowers and professional window design for Anthropologie, to designing urban parks, eco-cities to books and illustrating and making this very website. I strive to bring elegance, resilience and meaning to transform their spaces into “places.”  Working with you I provide sacred space education & conceptual site ideas. I work to help you learn how to design and create. Your homework is to practice.

Before teaching yoga, my history is in the high burn profession of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, which is essentially a consultant lifestyle. Having spent over 7 years in this intensely competitive and demanding professional and educational environment, I understand how personal growth and self-care often feels like it conflicts with work duties. Working with you, we look for realistic embodied solutions for self-care, retreat and self-awareness exercises to find purpose and overcome obstacles and turn to the physical practice of Yoga to ease the demands work places on your body.

I’ve had to do a lot of work to bring healthy boundaries to these relationships, and I work with clients to create healthier and more sustainable connections with their families. 

I meet regularly with a Somatic based white ally group where are are planting the seeds of an ally culture. I have been a voice against abuse and oppression in multiple yoga studios, workplace environments and through the justice system. I am learning from teachers Resmaa Menakem, Lama Rod Owens, Dr. Malidoma Patrice Somé, and Rev angel Kyodo Williams through reading their voices in their published books.  I donate to BIPOC run organizations like Holistic Resistance, and my work in the Share Your Heart Project aspires to decolonize spiritual practice and raise money for social justice. If this is a topic you would like to explore, my door is open.