I cannot help but pause whenever I’m asked how long I’ve been practicing yoga. The technical answer is: since 2004. But the simple truth is that I’ve been on this path of practice long before I discovered the asana of yoga. I just didn’t have a name for it!

I became intrigued by the concept of “living simply so that others may simply live” upon hearing one of my favorite writers share that adage during a lecture I attended in 1997.  It was the most poignant lesson of my entire college experience.  Many years later (after a series of life-altering events that included living in Brooklyn through the terror of 9/11), I returned to my Lansing roots with the intention of putting that wisdom into practice.

Back on home soil, I awakened fully to the understanding that my spiritual compass was aligned with yoga and Buddhism. And, in the magically effortless way that life unfolds when we are attuned: the teachers appeared! I discovered my root sangha (Lansing Area Mindfulness Community) and soon began a 200-hour yoga teacher training program with As You Are Yoga.

Since 2006, I’ve been continuously blessed with opportunities to teach—and learn with—diverse groups of people throughout the greater-Lansing area. My approach is deeply inspired by music, nature, my mindfulness practice and, more recently, motherhood.

I am nationally registered with Yoga Alliance (RYT 200), certified to teach yoga to adolescents (AYAY, 2009), and have completed additional training in anatomy for yoga (Paul Grilley, 2008).

In 2008, I founded dharma yoga arts with the vision to nurture sangha and to inspire the art of skillful living through movement, mindfulness and meditation.