What should students expect in your classes?
A soulful and intuitive flow, strength and mobility challenges dispersed throughout, and plenty of time to ground, rest, and steep in the magic we create together. My class will also always be infused with eastern tradition - Vedic philosophy, Buddhist tradition or Islamic mysticism.
When you're not practicing yoga, what do you like to do?
Drink chai, take long walks outside - preferably by water, cook phenomenal food, eat phenomenal food. Read books written by W/WOC/POC. Spend copious amount of time with my beautiful nephews and niece.
“You. Yes, you. The resiliency of that very human spirit within you. ”
What do you love yoga?
The physical practice itself is remarkably freeing, and can always offer what my body needs whether that’s strength, athletic mobility, or deep integrative stretching. But the real answer is found in the word itself - yog means to come to union, to connect ever more profoundly outwardly and with the deepest parts of myself.
What challenges you in yoga?
The very same thing that I love about it, the meeting of myself. Knowing this is my physical or mental capability today - I can only hold the pose this long, I can only quiet the mind this much - and being okay with it. Reconciling yourself with who you are in its entirety is as liberating as it is daunting.
What are the MOST important things you want your students to walk out of your class having experienced?
I want my student to experience a measure of peace and soothing through the boundless benefits of this ancient practice. The philosophy, the grounding postures that bookend my class, the breath work all serve to facilitate a stilling of the mind and heart spaces.
What/who inspires you?
You. Yes, you. The resiliency of that very human spirit within you. Women fighting to forge a better world. Relentlessly compassionate men. All the people pouring out some measure of good never ceases to amaze.