〰️ I received my 200-hour YTT (yoga teacher training) at Kripalu Center in the Berkshires in western MA, with a focus on safety, accessibility, and compassion. Core to founder Swami Kripalu’s philosophy is that the benefits of yoga can be felt by anyone anywhere in any body, even from a hospital bed.

〰️ My style of teaching is slow, invitational, and well-balanced. We will not be doing 20 chaturangas back-to-back, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be challenging. We will move intentionally with the option to sustain longer holds in powerful postures, while attuning to breath, and building strength & flexibility. You can make it as easeful or as rigorous as you like.

The closest comparison to something you may have experienced in class is Hatha yoga, which is an umbrella term, but a helpful reference point.

〰️ Every class will accommodate all levels & abilities, and I will offer different variations and modifications for injuries and preferences.

〰️ Yoga is not about how it LOOKS, but how it FEELS - not only in what body you show up in, but how you choose to move. You WILL fall, but then you’ll laugh, and get right back up. There is no failure, there’s only playing and resting.

Resist the urge to compare to those around you. We’re all in different bodies with different experiences and abilities. When you truly focus on your own breathing and what’s happening in YOUR body, the ego falls away and you will find peace within.

〰️ This is not a game of Simon Says. It’s your yoga practice. Everything I suggest is just an invitation to explore. I help you stay in your body, while you consider what it needs in the moment. And if you do something different, I just know you’re taking very good care of yourself.

〰️ I strongly believe yoga can be used as a tool for personal and collective liberation. My goal as a teacher is to use my knowledge to heal my students by: bringing relief to those going through mental health challenges, helping people feel at-home-in and in-love-with their bodies, giving back to underserved communities by offering donation-based classes, and making yoga accessible to anyone- especially people who feel like they “can’t” do it. (I’m proud to say I taught a class to my whole family, including my father who is recovering from 2 knee replacement surgeries.)

〰️ Unfortunately yoga in the west has perpetuated a very white-cisgendered-thin norm of a yoga pracitioner, which can make people who don’t fit into that box feel that it’s not for them, excluding them from having access to this incredibly healing modality.

As someone who was born into a privileged body in many ways, I take the utmost care in my yoga classes (and every other part of life) to show up with consideration, reverence, and humility. I strive to make yoga approachable and inclusive for people with all different bodies, shapes, sizes, and abilities.