Our Story

My first experience with yoga was in 1995. I was a 20-year-old new mother determined to lose the 60 pounds I had gained during pregnancy. I knew very little about yoga. In fact, much of what I had heard was negative—that it was somehow incompatible with my faith or even “evil.” Yet whenever I practiced, I felt peaceful, grounded, and more connected to myself.

In pursuit of weight loss, I joined a local gym and tried everything: step aerobics, cycling, kickboxing, Pilates, personal training, and yoga. What I did not understand then was that I was struggling with more than pregnancy weight. I was struggling with my body image.

Even before becoming a mother, I had spent years believing I was overweight when I was not. As a teenager and young adult, I cycled through unhealthy behaviors in pursuit of thinness—a glorified beauty standard, still today. Looking back, I recognize that I was wrestling with body dysmorphia long before I had language for it—and that struggle followed me for decades.

Yoga gradually became the one place where I felt at home in my body. Whenever stress, self-doubt, or overwhelm took hold, it helped me return to myself. Through parenting, work, and graduate school, my practice ebbed and flowed, but I always found my way back.

In 2021, I felt called to deepen my practice and enrolled in yoga teacher training—not because I intended to teach, but because I wanted to learn more. Shortly after, I left my career as a magazine editor, a transition I had been contemplating for some time. By the end of the training, I knew I was meant to teach.

After earning my initial certification in 2022, I began working with family and friends and soon discovered a new expression of my purpose: helping people experience yoga as a tool for healing and transformation.

Today, I specialize in therapeutic yoga, drawing from Hatha yoga, mindfulness, breathwork, Yoga Nidra, and meditation. My work helps people reconnect with themselves, strengthen their relationships, and cultivate change that extends into their families and communities.

I once used writing and editing to examine the effects of social injustice and explore possibilities for change. Today, I continue that work through a different medium: the transformative practice of yoga.