move to feel it all. Then, be still & listen.

My great aunt dropped me off at my first yoga class when I was 14. I remember the room was hot, dimly lit, and filled with adults who knew how to move. As I fumbled awkwardly on my mat, I wondered why my aunt had thought this would be a good idea. In this utter bewilderment, I was also totally hooked.

I kept showing up to yoga with my sister throughout our high school years – thrilled when an after school sports practice was canceled so we could rush to yoga. During college years, I found a home in Ashtanga Yoga of Charlottesville where I studied with Jennifer Elliott, Ty Landrum, and Katie Tully. I then completed my foundational and advanced training with Ana Forrest when I was 22, and moved to NYC, where I started teaching at a studio in Brooklyn. Later, back in Boston for grad school, I completed Boston's JP Centre Yoga 200-hour RYT under Daniel Max and Magi Pierce. During this time I was part of Dorchester’s 4 Corners Yoga & Wellness, where I taught and assisted founder and instructor Karuna O’Donnell with her teacher training program. I finally found restorative yoga when healing from a concussion, and started exploring a study of the breath, the nervous system, and yoga nidra. This healing process inspired me to head to Bali to train with my high school teacher, Cat Kabira, in yin, yoga nidra, and foundational energetic healing – a practice grounded in therapeutic touch. I’m very grateful for the wise guidance of the teachers aforementioned, as well as the brilliance of Joanne Flaherty, Alana Brennan, Nikki Villella, Nikki Costello, and Allison English.

Many days, I’m still that 14-year-old on a mat: fumbling around and trying to make sense of this thing called yoga that keeps bringing me back to my body. But, once an ‘escape from the real-world’ for me, yoga is now an exploration of how to bring the practice into the many phases of my daily existence: teaching me humility and providing community across cities, as well as a compass throughout my involvement in social and racial justice movements. 

I strive to create a class that is warm, alignment-aware, approachable, restorative, and founded in breath awareness. Hopefully this class brings forth our strength and grounds us into self-awareness (and, with luck, we’ve laughed together at least once ;). My goal in teaching is to create a space that allows for just as much understanding of our bodies as there is wonder, awe, and gratitude for this practice.