I grew up in the UK, moving to the United States in 1990. I go back to the UK frequently to visit family. I have traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, and feel that my traveling led me to pursue yoga in the manner that I have...a very universal approach. I have been practicing yoga for 12 years. My first class was a kundalini yoga class in San Antonio, Texas when I was 18.
I have completedthe 200hr RYT training through the Living Yoga Program. LYP's wonderful founders bring many different styles and philosophies to their trainings. Donna Belk, Ellen Smith and Charles MacInerney lead the program (all of whom can be found on my links page!), bringing Yoga Nidra, Restorative Flow, Qi Qong, Iyengar, Ashtanga and Raja yoga, Zen meditation, Hindu temple services and studies in Hinduism, Pranayama and chakra studies to their program, along with other uncounted resources and expertise. I am grateful to them for creating such a magical training that truly encourages its students to find their own path, and would recommend their program to anyone!
My most recent 80 hours of training included work in Pralaya Yoga with Robert Boustani, Kriya yoga, Iyengar and Anusara yoga, Yin Yoga, Thai Massage, partner yoga, Scaravelli yoga, anatomy and the yoga of myofacial release, Restorative Flow yoga, and classes in Erich Schiffman's signiature style. My upcoming calendar of personal trainings and workshops includes working with Erich Schiffman and Jason Crandell!
My yoga classes, are a blend of many different yoga styles, philosophies and practices. I honor everybody's individual abilities and how those abilities and preferences can change day to day, even hour to hour: you have the option of doing a very individualized practice in my class. I strive to show my students that their bodies can do amazing things for them if they are encouraged and loved enough. My classes give students the opportunity to stretch, yes, but more importantly they are gaining valuable time to listen to their bodies, emotions and breath/spirit, and by doing this they are making room for incredible transformations to occur, not only in themselves but in the people and beings they interact with.
" A spiritual practice is one that brings us full circle - not to a new self but, rather, back to the essence of our true selves. Yoga is the practice of celebrating what is."
"It is the aim of all spiritual seeking to bring us home, home to the understanding that we already have everything that we need." -from Meditaions from the Mat: daily reflections on the path of yoga.
