For 27 years (and counting), Yoga has co-conspired in rewiring my complex PTSD and in managing my chronic anxiety and depression. Because of this relationship, I spent half-a-decade working as a non-profit administrator and teacher for an organization that ran a financially and physically accessible Yoga studio and brought trauma-informed Yoga practices to jails, prisons, in-patient psychiatric facilities, teacher trainings and more. I also led financially accessible Yoga campouts and backpacking trips for the studio community.

While Yoga can absolutely assist in healing work on many levels, to understand Yoga through a western psychological lens is a gross misrepresentation of what the practice actually is .

As a student of Sri Vidya Tantra, I experience my asana practice as embodied prayer that moves and directs energy in powerful and profound ways.  My full practice cannot be siloed; it is present in every breath I take. At its roots, it is a practice of sitting in the sacred fire of transformation, making devotional offering of my life to that which is so much greater, and finding ways to walk inside paradox in an embodied and relational way — a way that helps expand “me” into “we” and into the greater sacred body of life.

Also, when Yoga relates with Tantra, they drop you in the middle of the living breathing chaos of the world and ask “now whatcha gonna do with that?”. And that keeps things interesting. 

On Paper

500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher
200-Hour Kaya Yoga - Vinyasa
300-Hour Vira Bhava Yoga - Sri Vidya Tantra

Values

Repair
Our relationship with the world and with ourselves are in need of tending and kindness.

Reciprocity
Projects of individual “self-improvement” and “self care” are not enough. We must engage in community care. Find ways to give back.

Community & Culture
Community and culture include other-than-human people and cannot exist without them.

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