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Practicing yoga has saved and sustained my life. I teach yoga in service to others, to share some measure of the peace, relief, healing, delight, playfulness, strength, and deep sense of community with which this practice has graced me. In my classes you can expect strong, creative, energetic, energizing, and sometimes unexpected sequencing. My life values are integrity, well-being, learning, and love for those dear to me. I aim to incorporate those values into my guidance and practice – of movement, meditation, and breathwork. Ultimately, I hope you walk away from my class feeling a little (or a lot!) lighter and easier than when you stepped onto your mat.
I first encountered yoga in college when I received a “yoga at home” kit, complete with VHS videotape instruction; however, it was only as a new parent (over a decade later) that I began practicing steadily. With a little human at home, time in the yoga studio gave me time to nurture myself and reconnect with my personhood apart from parenthood. A few years later, when I was incandescent with rage over the misogyny and online and sexual harassment I experienced in my career, I moved through that rage (repeatedly) while practicing. Yoga kept me grounded in the soaring excitement accompanying the publication of my first book, and my mat accompanied me on the ensuing book tour. More recently, yoga nurtured me through the exigencies of a cancer diagnosis, surgery, treatment, and recovery.
My first yoga home was Black Crow Yoga in Arlington, Massachusetts (sadly, now closed), where I learned from Becky Small and Jenna Hussey (among others). In Michigan, I called Hilltop Yoga home (Hilltop is now in Chicago); there I practiced gratefully with Hilaire Lockwood and Misty Belous (among others). I completed my first 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training through YogaWorks with Renée LeBlanc and Alissa Portet; however my cancer diagnosis in the middle of training threw a wrench in my plans to teach afterwards. I am profoundly grateful to have completed a second 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training with Lori Hernandez at Franklin Street Yoga Center in Chapel Hill, NC in 2025. I am deeply engaged with yoga as a millennia-old “wisdom tradition” (in the words of Sarah Powers), a concept introduced to me by my friend and fellow teacher Annie L. I honor and thank my teachers, and my teachers’ teachers, in all aspects of my life. I would not be who I am without them.