I’ve been a practicing yogi for over 14 years. Through my own yoga journey, I’ve realized how much yoga feeds and fuels a healthy mind, body and spirit. I enrolled in my first Yoga Teacher Training in 2013 wanting to deepen my own personal yoga practice, not really intending to teach yoga at all. Much to my surprise at the end of my first training I still wanted more, I applied to another 300 hour training and I began teaching community classes. I fell in love with it. And I haven’t stopped teaching since.
The style of yoga asana I teach is alignment based and prop intensive. This slow, intentional and very detail oriented way of practicing asana helps individual to turn inward and deeply feel the posture, feel your physical body and learn from your own personal expression of each pose.
When we slow down an asana, we take time to truly feel what’s going on within our bodies, and more deeply tune into our strengths and weaknesses within a pose, therefore gaining more insight for moving forward with our practice.
To me props are not used because you’re “weak” or “deficient” in some way and are unable to do the “full expression” of a pose. For me props are used to give you the best expression of a pose so that each person benefits the most deeply from the practice.
Yoga is a path of self discovery and the quieting of our mind. The poses are a vehicle along this path for finding more peace, groundedness and strength.
I finished my 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Program in 2014 with my teacher Erin Ehlers of Yoga On the Hill Kittery, ME.
In 2016 I completed another 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training again with Erin at YOTH.
I’m presently registered with the Yoga Alliance as a RYT 500 and am slowly working toward my ERYT 500.
I currently teach yoga asana at Newmarket Mills Yoga, Yoga On The Hill, private sessions within my Wellness Programs and Restorative Reiki.