
What should students expect in your classes?
Symmetry! My brain loves anything symmetrical, so I try to warm up and cool down with the same poses. Also, a creative, fun sequence with a playlist that will surprise you in the best way. Opportunities to rest and to play, and chances to take what works for you and leave what doesn't.
When you're not practicing yoga, what do you like to do?
I'm a writer! I'm also a big foodie--all I ever do is eat, really. I love tennis, my dog Baxter, and being in the kitchen.
What/who inspires you?
The teachers that trained me at Vira are huge inspirations to me in my own practice and in how I teach.
What are the MOST important things you want your students to walk out of your class having experienced?
I want my students to have had an "ahhhh" moment on their mat. A moment that feels so good you let an extra breath out, whether that's a certain pose or during a dharma talk. I want students to leave feeling calm and grounded, like they were challenged but also given the space to come out of the challenge and rest.
“Now, my practice is all about how my body and mind feel on my mat. I have learned how to soften, how to calm, and how to quiet, but also how to challenge, how to go deeper, how to conquer.”
What do you love yoga?
I first started yoga to help ease my anxiety as a teenager, and later continued it as a workout, and I love yoga now because it has become so much more than that for me. At first, my relationship with yoga was solely about how my body looked doing the poses and how "advanced" I could seem to the yogis practicing around me. Now, my practice is all about how my body and mind feel on my mat. I have learned how to soften, how to calm, and how to quiet, but also how to challenge, how to go deeper, how to conquer. Yoga is what centers me, but it can also be what makes me feel most adventurous. I love yoga because the space I've curated on my mat is the place where I feel most in tune with myself, most alive.
What challenges you in yoga?
Inversions! I am terrified of going upside down, and terrified of falling. In my practice, my constant journey is finding the balance between facing that fear and allowing myself the space to only do as much as feels safe for me.