About me

For all you deep divers out there.

**Hey, there! Thanks for stopping by.**

I’m a San Francisco based yoga instructor and artist here to share my passions with all of you.

Why yoga?

I love to move. I spent more than half of my life dancing, leaping across the floor, spinning til I was dizzy, and trying my hardest to lift my damn leg up as high as I could—all while trying to look like I wasn’t lifting more than a finger. Those years spent trying to force my body into shapes that it didn’t really want to be in left me in physical pain. But, did it matter? Nope, I was still on my journey to achieving ballet perfection and no ache would stand in my way. Until one day when it did. I found out that injuries do, in fact, get in the way.

The culmination of injuries, college, and life brought my dancing career to a halt. It took me a few years to realize there was something missing: the freedom that comes from getting lost in movement.

I tried the gym rat thing—it was fun and all, but it definitely didn’t hit the spot. Then, during my last semester of college (the most stressful semester yet), a classmate invited me to her yoga class and I was instantly hooked. There was no doubt in my mind that this was my new thing.

Not only did I find my sense of freedom, but I discovered that THIS was my way of coming back to a place of quiet and calm, far away from the stress of school. It felt good.

Fast forward 10 years, and I’m still here: learning, practicing, and sharing everything that yoga means to me. While I’m big on proper alignment for the safety of our bodies (still can’t shake that perfectionist in me), I also understand that every individual body is different—and sometimes all we want to accomplish during our time on our mat is simply to feel good.

You can follow along during class, or do something completely different: you do you! What I do hope you take from my classes is a reconnection with your intuitive self—an invitation to listen to what you and your body really need in the moment.

Why ceramics?

Ceramics is a full body experience—if you want to have control over the things you make, you have to stand your ground. Moving pounds of clay on a spinning wheel takes muscles. Plus, it’s one of the only art forms I can think of where your hands are the tools.

It’s pretty cool and I like it a lot.

Other than yoga, ceramics is the only thing that I fell instantly in love with; I’ve been playing with clay for about 6 years now. I like to create, design, then actually use what I make—it’s those functional forms that get me really excited.

If I had to choose one lesson I’ve learned from ceramics it would be, without a doubt, letting go of expectations: the ultimate lesson in non-attachment. It’s wild how the things I’ve learned from ceramics so closely mirror and solidify the lessons taught in yoga. The more you make, the closer you get to an idea of what might come out of the kiln in the end, but anything can happen. Pieces warp, shrink, and explode; glazes drip, bubble, and do some other pretty weird things. In a way, it encourages a level of playfulness and lets me tap into my carefree side.