Path towards Light

My journey with yoga began in elementary school taking classes on Friday afternoons in the school’s auditorium and with my mom at her Iyengar classes on the weekends. When I was in 5th grade, I was diagnosed with severe scoliosis and had to wear a back brace for middle and high school. Scoliosis-informed Iyengar yoga became a daily necessity to manage the pain and discomfort that came along with the deepening S curve in my spine. In 2012, my thoracic spine was fused and 6 weeks after my surgery I was back in the yoga studio - my tried-and-true physical healing modality.

While receiving my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from USC, I went through a few bouts of depression and I started attending free mindfulness meditation classes at the spirituality school - learning to tend to the mind as well as the body. I also began exploring other yoga lineages and found the fluidity of vinyasa-style classes to be the perfect medicine to counterbalance the rigidity of an academic environment and early work life.

After a few injuries in fast paced vinyasa classes, I sought out a more therapeutic practice. The way my body felt safe and held in each movement with precise alignment cues and anatomical knowledge, coupled with yogic philosophy, meditation and breathwork (pranayama), I knew I was home. In 2020, I finally received my RYT200 in Yoga and the Healing Sciences through LMU, lead by Terra Gold. I then went on to study under Larry Payne of Prime of Life Yoga, Guru Singh of Kundalini University, Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche of The Radiance Sutras School of Meditation, and Kia Miller of Radiant Body Yoga.

My hope is to share my knowledge from 20 years of practice, over 1000 hours of study, and devotion to this sacred union of art and science, to transmit love and healing, to offer therapeutic and alignment-focused asana classes in reverence to the great teachers who have come before me, the Spirit within each of us, and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with mantra, pranayama, meditation, and yoga philosophy.

As a life long learner of Yoga, I seek to expand consciousness through movement and breath—in humility, I bow to the Divine Mother, in Spirit and form, Earth.