Horses first brought me to yoga twelve years ago. I owned my own business training horses and teaching riders the art of Dressage, a systematic approach to returning horse and rider to a state of harmonious union. Yoga was a way to help riders relax and feel at home atop a moving horse. As my own practice grew, I found yoga transforming my experience of pregnancy, birth and parenthood. Those gifts: rediscovering intuition, unconditional love and determining the boundaries of a balanced life, took me even deeper.

Years of practice have opened me to several important influences. Anusara showed me it was okay to have fun and laugh in a yoga class! It challenged me to boldly explore my potential. Forrest Yoga disciplined my breath, gave me permission to feel deeply and to express whatever messiness came up. Iyengar-style alignment gave me the safe physical foundation from which to heal long-term injuries and the opportunity to discipline my mind through sustained concentration. During my two year apprenticeship with Gabriel Halpern of Yoga Circle in Chicago I specialized in breaking new ground in yoga’s approach to scoliosis.

That work naturally grew into a career teaching yoga, with a particular focus on alignment-based asana and therapeutics. In popular specialty classes, workshops and group classes, I adeptly weave alignment into the flow of asanas. One-on-one in privates I combine a compassionate intuition with skilled body reading to address a range of physical restrictions, chronic conditions and injuries.

My classes focus on transformation. By exploring carefully chosen actions, stability can be married in healthy balance to sensitivity. My belief is that with consistent practice of solid alignment principles and actions, students can experience less pain and more freedom. I use consistent, progressive alignment cues that build to a logical apex. Demonstration, partner work, anatomical explanations and story-telling are hallmarks of my style. Each class is symbolically, physically and spiritually cohesive.

Sources of Inspiration:

“When I practice, I am a philosopher.

When I teach, I am a scientist.

When I demonstrate, I am an artist.”

—BKS Iyengar, Founder of Iyengar Yoga

“If you want to use yoga to heal emotional pain, you must find out where it resides in your body and learn to take your breath there. I don’t teach yoga to help people to transcend. I want people’s Spirits to reside in their body. I literally want to help people embody their Spirit, not go through life fragmented.”

—Ana T. Forrest, Founder of Forrest Yoga

We practice looking for the good in things, especially in ourselves and our students…. We are not trying to fix or correct the students, we are trying to help enhance and reveal the beauty and divine qualities that are already present in the students’ poses.

—-John Friend, Founder of Anusara Yoga

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