MY STORY

Since 2004, I’ve been in love with yoga.  I was first exposed to yoga in college while pursuing   my BA in Speech Communication (minor in Journalism) at the University Nevada Reno. Throughout college I loved taking yoga classes because they made me feel so awesome but I didn’t know much else about yoga!  After college I moved to Chicago for a big corporate job (I thought college was stressful).  To avoid the rush hour commute home, I drove to work early and stayed after work late and took yoga classes twice daily.  Since moving to a new city, I didn’t have many friends so I started using my free time to take yoga workshops and started to understand more about yoga, other than just the movements that I already knew I loved.  During a weekend long workshop for the first time I found and acknowledge myself, my best friend, the one always looking out for me, that I never gave the time to acknowledge, I cried with joy, and although this moment changed me, I was still caught in the rat race of life, wondering what my purpose was... fast forward years later to when I finally quit my nice high paying job.  The final words I said about it before leaving was, “if I go back there, it will steal a piece of my soul and I don’t know if I will ever get it back”. I know dramatic right?!  But this was where my next journey with yoga began.  In trying to find myself I went back to yoga, I had loved yoga for a long time, and now (since quitting my job) had the time to invest in a yoga teacher training.  I signed up for and attended my first 200 hour yoga training and then realized that yoga was so much more than the poses that made me feel wonderful. Yoga was life changing, a way of living and being, and I knew I wanted to share that with the world. After graduating from yoga teacher training I taught traditional public group yoga classes, I attended advanced technique trainings and yoga festival, I taught workshops on “Shaking Off Stress” and meditation, but I was still hungry for more knowledge.  I then enrolled in my advanced 300 hour yoga teacher training.  What I learned in this training is that I have a unique perspective to share about yoga, I know I don’t want to teach headstands or really traditional yoga exercise classes, I want to teach people the tools that I learned in yoga, that helped me to transform my life, to a life where I finally feel fulfilled.  The essence of my work is to facilitate self-growth by helping you identify the core challenges and setbacks in your life, so that you can overcome them with confidence. I specialize in creating personalized plans and providing tools to guide you forward and achieve your desired goals.