As a yoga instructor, I bring a true love for teaching and service to class. This is a partnership built on trust. As your guide, it is important to create a safe atmosphere where your able to focus on staying present by slowing the mind, breathing, and attuning to the body. My hope is to share tools with you that can be applied in everyday life resulting in reducing your stress level, feeling better in your body, and living your yoga both on and off the mat. I strive to share the same immense benefits that yoga has brought to my life. It is my hope to help others by giving them empowering tools to help manage anxiety and physical pain.

I believe in doing yoga that feels good in the body, which may or may not be aesthetically perfect. We each have different bodies and some poses are just not accessible to us all. However, owning our practice and doing yoga for ourselves is accessible. The idea of owning your own practice is simple and can be broken down to three main foci:

1. Being safe in every pose you do.

Modify poses and use props when needed and available

2. Breath

Be aware of the quality of your breath and it's location. Is the pace fast or slow, and is it high in the chest (clavicular breathing), or deep into the pit of your abdomen? Cultivating this awareness of the breath will allow you to gauge if you are pushing yourself to hard, or realize that a pose has become painful. Remember nothing is static. You can come out of a pose at any time. Child’s pose is always appropriate and always available. 

3. Be Present

Feel the entire process of the pose, for each pose has a beginning, middle and end. Start your practice with awareness of how you have arrived, next allow for some type of softening (whether that be physically or mentally), then commit to your time on the mat. You deserve a break.