Namaste.

Thank you for visiting and taking the time to read about my path. I am very grateful to have these practices in my life and I love sharing them with others.

I was first exposed to yoga in my teenage years through my best friend’s hippie dippie mom. (This was long before there was a yoga studio on every corner.) Watching her do headstands for what seemed like an infinite amount of time was always highly entertaining. At the University of Oregon, I took yoga classes as an easy college credit, but didn’t really find the layered benefits until my 20s. Post graduation, I traveled to South East Asia and India with my best friend, (whose mom was the hippie dippie one), where we began a self practice. With a Jivamukti yoga book we would practice every day by taking turns teaching each other the asanas. This practice taught me self discipline, made me truly feel my body and gave me a sense of peace that I never had as a restless teenager. I was hooked.

After my travels I landed in Hawaii. I found my local yoga studio and became a dedicated student. I soon enrolled in my first teacher training at the young age of 22. For many years I studied different styles of yoga, did continuing education workshops and mentored under Jennifer Reuter.

When I was 25, I suffered from a back injury and was unable to practice yoga, which lead me to Pilates. Using Pilates I rehabilitated my back and I wanted to learn more. I enrolled in a Pilates training and have been combining yoga and Pilates ever since.

Naturally, the physical practice of yoga led me to meditation. Under the guidance of my teachers, Jennifer Reuter and Paul Muller Ortega, I have studied mantra, Sanskrit and meditation, which have given me more tools to navigate this crazy path of life.

I have been very fortunate to have found many great teachers starting from a young age and continue to be guided by them. I have also been lucky enough to teach in a variety of settings from Physical Therapy offices to premier yoga studios in Los Angeles like Wanderlust. I am grateful to have these practices that bring balance to my mind and body and feel lucky to share them with the students that I fortuitously encounter.