About Me

I live hopefully and happily with my wonderful fiancé Chris, our goofy dog Nova & ferocious cat Luna in Seattle, Washington.

I found yoga in high school and noticed that during & after practice I felt better in body & mind. I lost the practice for a long time until a friend brought me back during a difficult period of chronic & mental health, disability, and poverty. I continue to find it transformationally supportive.

I completed a 200-hour training over 11 months at The Yoga Tree in November 2024 with Susanne Hutchinson, who made it uniquely accessible.

I have 7 years of experience as a Holistic Somatic Coach with a focus in the areas of trauma recovery, sexuality & gender, embodiment & integration, attachment, personal advocacy, and radical self compassion.

Approach

I strive to be invitational with offerings, centering student agency - your choice is a vital part of the practice. I consider this supportive for students who experience demand avoidance, who have experienced consent harm, high control groups, are breaking free from fawning, and for those who feel disconnected from their bodies.

I approach yoga as a system for liberation, path for preparing body & mind for resistance, container for spiritual connection, re-indigenization practice, and political act of self preservation as Audre Lorde described self care. It is both personal and communal.

I view the yoga studio as a temple, refuge, and vital third place providing essential community care.

I believe that meeting ourselves where we’re at in all our nuance, messiness and beauty is an essential part of the practice and of life.

I believe yoga should be accessible to all kinds of people with every type of body and that, to quote Susanna Barkataki, “if you can breathe you can do yoga”.

My classes are themed and include chanting, singing, restorative & yin shapes, flowy gradual transitions, and lots of props. All feelings are welcome whether big or small, hard or soft.

Land & Lineage

With gratitude, reverence, and a commitment to equity I want to name that the city of Seattle where I live and practice are on stolen Coast Salish land, specifically the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People.

Thank you to the land protectors who have ensured we can continue to have clean air to breathe and a living Earth to hold us.

It’s equally important to me to acknowledge and offer gratitude the early yogis of Asia, specifically modern India and China as well as those of Africa who developed, codified, preserved, and passed along the remarkable practice of yoga.

Thank you to those who have modeled moving with compassion, courage, awareness, and in community.