My Experience

My path has unfolded in an organic way throughout my life. The biggest lesson I am still learning, is to get out of my own way and let things unfold as they should.

I followed this crazy path that led me from dancing with the National Ballet of Zimbabwe as a teenager, to majoring in ceramics and lighting design for dance at a wildly liberal college in Vermont. In my summers off from college I found myself mentoring under, and studying yoga with, Sanjeev Bhanot – founder of Yogalife Foundation.

I let the pull take me to an ashram in Bihar in the north of India after graduation, and after my travels in India and then Europe, I returned to the USA once again. After having spent time at Kripalu in their Seva program some years earlier, I returned to the Berkshires for their month long intensive 200 hour teacher training in 2003, and was called back for my Prenatal Teacher Training with Janice Clarfield a year later.

My interest in the body and movement wasn’t satiated with yoga though, and so in 2006 I followed the call to the finger lakes of New York where, for 6 months, I attended massage school at the Fingerlakes School Of Massage, completing 1000 hours of training in therapeutic massage. My studies there enriched my experiential knowledge of the body by adding to the scientific knowledge of structure and systems, as well as learning to understand the benefits, effects and importance of touch to the body.

I sat both the State Licensing exams as well as the National Board Certification exams to earn me my LMT and NBTMB titles. My studies influenced my yoga teaching significantly and created a deeper foundation in reading the body. A few years later I spent a humid sticky month in Chang Mai, Thailand to study Thai massage at it’s root, and to experience the cross over between massage and yoga.

Over the years I am always searching and eagerly learning, to enrich my life, and to add valuable content to my work. There will always be another, and then another step. I continue to explore and study different yoga styles including Core Strength Vinyasa, and Anusara. I also maintain my massage credentials by taking continuing education credits every year. Self-study never ends. I won’t “arrive” some place, but will honor the various threads in my life.

My adventures have honed specific skills that allow me to be a sensitive and intuitive guide. When you are in my class, or on my table, when we work together, I see you. You for the individual body and person you are. Your unique aches and pains, strengths and goals. You are not just another body in a room full of bodies. You and me, we are going to get to know each other. We are going to connect. That’s what I am most excited about. That’s what I do this work for. Connection is everything.

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