about

I completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training at Practice Yoga in Austin, TX in 2016. Practicing yoga has helped me cope with depression and anxiety throughout my adult life, and I sought out teacher training in order to deepen my understanding of the mind/body/spirit connection within us all that yoga helps to clarify. 

I feel called to teach yoga to others in order to guide them to the peace, mindfulness, and self-acceptance I have found through my own practice. I am especially interested in how asana and meditation practices allow people to care for themselves so that they can better care for each other and our world. 

I believe in creating inclusive environments where all people can experience the benefits of yoga. While corporate yoga companies and some yoga studios traffic images of yoga that privilege thin, white, flexible, and able bodies, this does not reflect the reality or history of the practice. I believe that this exclusive and damaging image of yoga, and the systems that support it, need to be dismantled. Yoga practitioners come from every background, shape, size, and ability level, and everyone deserves access to these healing practices.

I am always a student as well as a teacher, and have continued to study a variety of yoga styles since receiving my original teacher training certification. In 2019, I attended Relax & Renew Restorative Yoga training with Judith Lasater at Kripalu. I also assisted Judith Lasater at a Restorative training in 2021 in Laguna Niguel, California. I love teaching Restorative yoga because it helps people learn to take time to relax and breath, something we can all use more of in our hectic lives. I’m also a certified Accessible Yoga instructor through a training with Jivana Heyman and Kelley Palmer in February 2020 at Sacred Chill West in Atlanta. I am currently studying experiential anatomy online with Judith Lasater and Mary Richards and working on my 300-hour advanced teaching certification at Yess Yoga in Minneapolis.