About

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 I teach yoga and coach from the perspective that you are already whole, naturally resourceful and creative. Tantric philosophy offers that we need not transform anything essential about ourselves but rather, remember who we are and move more deeply from the space of our hearts. We are interested in transforming our experience and liberating our perspective, not fixing who we are.

I am building fluency in the languages of pleasure and beauty to support women’s healing. The human body is available as both map and destination as we inquire “What is a vivid and vital life?”

Training - I began my formal training in the Sivananda tradition, living at The Yoga Ranch ashram and completing my first 200hr training there in 2011. I have since become a licensed Anusara Inspired Teacher, the 2nd level of Anusara licensing. I completed my first Anusara Teacher Training and Philosophy Immersion at The Lakshmi Living Arts Center.

I used my past experience producing music festivals to produce the Anusara School of Hatha Yoga’s annual Yoga Conference, Samavesha, an international gathering of the ASHY community, for two years in Northern California and Northern Italy. I currently teach yoga at Light Blossom Studio in Ithaca, NY, at the Island Health and Fitness Community Corners location, and online. I offer Health Coaching services rooted in the ADAPT Health Coaching Program and work with businesses and organizations to facilitate more deeply present, mindful work environments.

I spend a lot of time with my family in Hector, NY on the east side of Seneca Lake, love running and practicing a life of deep relationships.

I believe that movement is an inherent form of inquiry; a way to ask the deepest questions about who we are. The body is inseparable from conversations about spirit and connection to the divine. 

I was brought to yoga by my mother and grandmother when I was ten. These women and my teachers Amy Abelson, Rachel Bush and Denise Hatch inspire me to offer yoga as a liberation practice. My classes invite awe at the complexity and beauty of the human body and softness in the seat of the heart. Poetry and science inform my understanding of spirit.