I am a certified 200-hour Hatha Yoga instructor through Yoga Yoga in Austin, Texas. I have also studied yoga anatomy with Leslie Kaminoff as well as yoga for stress relief, depression and anxiety with Viniyogi, Gary Kraftsow, with whom I will continue my 500-hour training.
I was hesitant when I first encountered yoga. I thought it was a glorified workout that cost too much and which only pretentious people did. It's funny that once I started actually practicing more regularly a few years ago, I noticed things about myself that I hadn't before noticed: my body's response to subtle differences in my diet or emotions, my emotional reactions to conflict while I was having them and the stark contrast between a day with yoga or meditation and a day without. These discoveries have made such a strong, positive (yet sometimes difficult to face) difference in my life and I want to share them with others.
I was a gymnast and then a dancer for most of my youth, instilling in me a great sense of my own body and how to both stretch it to the extreme, and then later, how to treat it safely. I am very aware of health, and I am still toying with the balance between desire and the will involving food and beverages. I have done much traveling, including living in a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan in 2008. This taught me the difficult art of meditation, which I love to incorporate into my own practice and bring into the class as well.
I was hesitant when I first encountered yoga. I thought it was a glorified workout that cost too much and which only pretentious people did. It's funny that once I started actually practicing more regularly a few years ago, I noticed things about myself that I hadn't before noticed: my body's response to subtle differences in my diet or emotions, my emotional reactions to conflict while I was having them and the stark contrast between a day with yoga or meditation and a day without. These discoveries have made such a strong, positive (yet sometimes difficult to face) difference in my life and I want to share them with others.
I was a gymnast and then a dancer for most of my youth, instilling in me a great sense of my own body and how to both stretch it to the extreme, and then later, how to treat it safely. I am very aware of health, and I am still toying with the balance between desire and the will involving food and beverages. I have done much traveling, including living in a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan in 2008. This taught me the difficult art of meditation, which I love to incorporate into my own practice and bring into the class as well.
