eRYT 500+ Yoga Teacher Trainer & Certified Rolfer
“What makes you unique in your yoga teaching?” I was asked my business mentor. A questioned that left me feeling stuck. As you could imagine, my story isn’t far off from most of my students who’ve become teachers themselves. Yoga saved my life (as it did theirs), and I wanted to share this magical practice with those in the world who are being guided to a deeper place within, just like I am.
A few days later after deep reflection of what makes me unique, the answers came. My mentor mentioned a Greek term we discussed that day, Pathei Mathos, meaning “through suffering we transform.” This is not what makes me unique, but let me explain.
My story doesn’t begin the moment I stepped into my first Yoga class, it begins when my mom passed away 6 years later. Without Yoga, I wouldn’t have been able to manage the most devastating loss of one of the most important people in my life. Yoga gave me the tools to confront the most difficult experience I’d ever faced in my 30 years. Debilitating grief. Losing my mom isn’t what makes me unique, but the story that follows is one of the most unbelievable that even I wouldn’t believe it if I haven’t experienced it myself.
A year after my mom passed, since 2011 I’ve lived one of the most exciting and remarkable lives and it’s all been divinely guided by her. How do I know? It’s a simple answer. I just do. A year after her passing I moved half-way around the world to a land so different than my own in what turns out to be the most unique adventures of a lifetime. And along the way, I’ve connected to my “why.”
After getting my 200hr certification from YogaWorks (CA) in 2008, I moved to Dubai in 2011 from Denver, CO, where I had the opportunity to thrive as a full-time yoga teacher. In 2011 I traveled to Thailand for 6 weeks to study my 300hr Yoga Training with Michel Besnard. At 78 years young, Besnard taught me so much beyond the asana practice. He’s still teaching to this day, in 2025.
From Yogaworks, to Corina Benner, Jill Miller, Joe Muscalino, Ida Rolf, Kori Strobl, Thomas Taubman, Carmen Fitzgibbon, Prasad Rangnekar, Tiffany Cruikshank, my students, and so many more, I’ve explored and learned more about myself than I ever thought possible.
What makes me unique is my life experience and how I relate to my students in my classes and trainings. The world has so much to offer and I’ve more than dipped my toes in. The world is rich with many cultures, religions, ideologies, rituals…Yoga is the blending of all of it. I teach to share my story and encourage all of my students to do the same.
A few days later after letting that question sit within my field of consciousness, the answers came. My mentor mentioned a Greek term we discussed that day, Pathei Mathos, meaning “through suffering we transform.”
My story doesn’t begin the moment I stepped into my first Yoga class, it begins when my mom passed away 6 years later. Without Yoga, I wouldn’t have been able to manage the most devastating loss of one of the most important people in my life. Yoga gave me the tools to confront the most difficult experience I’d ever faced in my 30 years. Debilitating grief. Losing my mom isn’t what makes me unique, but the story that follows is one of the most unbelievable that even I wouldn’t believe it if I haven’t experienced it myself.
A year after my mom passed, since 2011 I’ve lived one of the most exciting and remarkable lives and it’s all been divinely guided by her. How do I know? It’s a simple answer. I just do.
After getting my 200hr certification from YogaWorks in 2008, I moved to Dubai in 2011 from Denver, CO, where I had the opportunity to thrive as a full-time yoga teacher. In 2011 I traveled to Thailand for 6 weeks to study my 300hr Yoga Training with Michel Besnard. At 78 years young, Besnard taught me so much beyond the asana practice. He’s still teaching to this day, in 2025.
From Yogaworks, to Corina Benner, Jill Miller, Joe Muscalino, Ida Rolf, Kori Strobl, Thomas Taubman, Carmen Fitzgibbon, Prasad Rangnekar, Tiffany Cruikshank, my students, and so many more. I’m forever grateful for all my teachers.
My logo is a representation of the past 15 years, since my mom has passed. The dragonfly represents the journey of adaptability, change and understanding the deeper meaning of life. It’s often known that dragonflies symbolize angels, messengers and divine begins. I’m not sure what drew me to the dragonfly to begin with, except that it was intuitive.
I truly believe, without a doubt, my mom has guided me all this time. To travel the world, teach yoga, and learn from numerous cultures in this world that have shown me parts of my heart I forget sometimes. And to honor being fully human, mistakes and all. That every moment is an opportunity to learn about myself in relationship with nature and with others.
I teach yoga as an homage to the path of being human. To guide my students back to a place of wonder, exploration and awe.