I am currently on a break from teaching yoga and have been focusing my energy on Forest Therapy. I am also recovering from Achilles tendon surgery, but hope to be back to teaching soon.

It is my deepest desire to create a safe space so that you feel free to experience yoga in the body you are in. My classes are designed to help you connect to your body, breath, and heart so you can feel whole again.

I was teaching an Embodied Flow yoga class at Sierra Sunrise Wellness Center but am currently taking a break to focus on some much-needed self-care.

This Embodied Flow class will keep you on your toes with elements of dance, somatic practices and/or self-myofascial massage incorporated into a vinyasa flow class. This class is designed to help you connect to the physical sensation of truth in your body through breath awareness and paying attention to bodily sensations so that you will leave feeling refreshed and connected to your body and your truth, so you can feel whole again.

Sierra Sunrise Wellness Center is a beautiful space, filled with love. Check out one of their many wonderful teachers.

Weekly Class(es)

“The yoga postures and breath are tools to rebuild and transform, ourselves. The goal is not to tie ourselves in knots. We’re already in knots. The aim is to unite with the ultimate, loving, peaceful power of the universe.”
— Max Strom

I am not flexible, Can I still do yoga?

So many people tell me they can not do yoga because they are not flexible. If that were the case, I would not be able to do yoga. We do not come to yoga because we already are flexible, we come to yoga to gain flexibility in both body and mind.

While my body is slightly more flexible than when I started practicing yoga, there are still many poses that I cannot do. However, what I have noticed is how much more flexible I am in my mind, my relationships, and life.

Did you know that the physical practice of yoga is only one small part of yoga? Yoga is more than the physical postures (asanas) we do in a yoga class. Patanjali (a yogi who compiled ancient knowledge about yoga into the Yoga Sutras text) explains that the reason we do yoga is to learn to calm the mind. He explains that there are 8 limbs of yoga that guide us to that goal:

Yamas - ethical principles to live by

  • Ahimsa-non-violence

  • Satya-truthfulness

  • Asteya-non-stealing

  • Brahmacharya- conserving vital energy

Niyamas - observances or inward practices

  • Saucha-cleanliness

  • Santosha-contentment

  • Tapas-discipline

  • Svadhyaya-self-study

Āsana - physical postures

Prāṇāyāma - breathing exercises that help us learn to control our prana (life force).

Pratyahara - withdrawal of the senses

Dhāraṇa - one-pointed concentration

Dhyāna - meditation

Samādhi - the experience of bliss and union with Spirit

For me, the yoga path offers tools that help me cultivating a deeper connection with the Divine, so that I can be the highest version of myself, see that divinity in others and create a world with less suffering. It has softened me in a good way. Yoga has taught me to listen to my inner wisdom and to those around me, it has strengthened my connection to Spirit, it has taught me how to flow with life rather than fight against it, and so much more.

I hope you join me on this miraculous journey!

Yoga as a life philosophy