Yoga
Yoga is my sustainable through-line. I have been a joyful, heart-centered yoga instructor for over a decade. And, I have been a devoted student, practicing yoga/meditation for over twenty years. My style is gentle, creative, kind, inspiring, whimsical, upbeat, soothing, and lighthearted. Always inclusive, always adaptive, always welcoming. Yoga is medicine. Movement is medicine.
I have formally received yoga teacher training certifications from yogaview and Nature Yoga in Chicago, Illinois. I began my yoga teaching in Chicago, initially subbing at yogaview, and then I became a regular teacher at Yoga Tree, where I taught several classes each week, along with workshops. It is such a beautiful and thrilling experience to provide yoga for folks.
I have experience teaching all-levels flow/vinyasa style, restorative, gentle, and combined vin-yin classes. I have also hosted a number of creative/spiritual workshops with the intention of helping students fall more in love with their personal practice. One of my favorite workshops was helping students to develop their home/self-practice. As one yogi stated, “Home practice is the only practice,” which to me simply means - maintain your practice, for you, with you, always.
I have also hosted lunar ceremonies and a “celebrating creativity” workshop to ignite one’s art-making experience/process, combined with one’s yoga practice. And, I have hosted mandala-making workshops with yoga as well. I believe everybody and being can benefit from the art and practice of yoga/meditation, conscious breathing, and mindful movement, and I am so grateful to be deeply connected, rooted, and in love with this life-affirming and generative ancient art that is yoga.
Yoga has always lit my path and continues to be the item I carry with me wherever my path takes me…
I deeply value the art of connection, and I believe yoga is an embodied practice that invites us to learn how to connect with ourselves and our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits.
Through yoga, we awaken and develop our intuitive senses and our creative/spiritual bliss, which is always there. Quieting the noise of our minds, we awaken our bliss. Cultivating our presence and attention connects us to ourselves and to each other.
It is an understatement to say that I love being a student of yoga and a teacher of yoga, and I bring these skills into the counseling space.
I remember my first class and teacher. I remember the studio I began practicing at regularly in Maryland, under Christa Del Giorno, at Padma Yoga. I remember finding yogaview in Chicago, Illinois and falling more in love with flow and restorative and many amazing teachers, Quinn, Lisa, Alie, Tracy. We receive, we give, we receive, we give. This is yoga.
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this moment
“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is the only moment.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
