Life Well Played

 
 

My first yoga experience was in the mid-90’s and at the time, I didn’t realize that the post-class, feel-good hum that flowed through me would change my life!

It was while working in the corporate world in the early-aughts that I felt lost, without direction and rudderless. From a wisdom, deep within, I knew wasn’t living my purpose. The discord caused a bitterness toward the world that wasn’t doing my health or relationships any favors. Something needed to change. I needed to change and I needed to get back to listening to my soul and loving who I was in the world.

The outward search for contentment led me to revisit yoga. Being on the mat, again, felt comforting yet challenging. It felt safe and felt it like home. With a regular practice, time and again, I found myself emerging off the mat as a happier, healthier and more loving human.

Since 2012, yoga for me, is a non-negotiable. It’s a dynamic lifestyle practice. It’s whole being wellness. Yoga helps me navigate, accept and love my ever-changing self. It’s helped me become aware of my energy especially of what’s restoring or depleting it. Yoga has expanded my ways of thinking and perspective and thus, has positively impacted how I relate to myself and love others. Yoga was the body, mind and spirit nourishment I needed. It still is.

Today I’m a yoga educator and yoga therapist. I work with people navigating their own health and healing. I love what I do and feel as peaceful and joyful as ever. This is after turning 50yr in 2023! Age, schmage! In my head, heart, bones and soul, I’m meant to support folks fueling their lives with yoga as a methodology for wellbeing. Let’s connect to see how yoga can fuel you, too!

 

Acknowledgements & Lineages

​I live and teach yoga on unceded Duwamish land. ​

​The beginnings of Yoga were developed by the Indus-Sarasvati civilization in the Indus Valley (now India) over 5,000 years ago. The practice has been passed down from teacher to student since then. All the knowledge I share I owe to the generosity of teachers who have educated me and the ancient lineages that have developed and evolved the practices of yoga. My training and practice fall under the ancient lineage of Hatha Yoga as communicated by the scholar, Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya and his son, T.K.V. Desikachar to my teachers.

Certifications + Education

  • E-RYT 500: Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (through Yoga Alliance)

  • Essential Yoga Therapy Applications Program – in progress, expected certification 2025

  • Essential Yoga Therapy Foundations Program – 2023

  • 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training (through Seattle Yoga Arts) – 2015-2017

  • 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (through Pacific Yoga Seattle) – 2013

Deep Gratitude

To my yoga mentors and teachers: ​Theresa Elliott, Kathryn Payne, Denise Benitez, Robin Rothenberg, Melissa Campagnolo, Andrea Carvalho, Sarah Birger, Margo Pena, Jill Massengill, Llewellyne Arden

To my cherished colleagues and therapeutic cohort: Susanne Hutchinson, Kate Collins, Mary Kay Valdino, Nicole Bratt, Jeannie Cziesla, Amanda Rose, Susan Gibbons, Maurine Malone, Nathan Waldvogel, Eva Ellert, Taira Stronach, Bronwyn Hughes, Danielle Sack, Deirdre Wenzel, Jayme DeGooyer