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I view the yoga practice as a means of meditation, a roadmap through the mind and body for helping us connect with our supreme Selves. The yoga practice offers us a chance to be in touch with our creative selves, our true nature, allowing us to move inward towards the source of our own light. With practice, we stoke that light, allowing it to shine through us, enriching our lives and the lives of those around us. My role as a teacher is simply to facilitate the practice and help my students access the teachings in a way that is applicable to them. The fundamental teachings lie in continued practice itself.
I have been a grateful student of yoga since 2008, but I have had physical connection to spiritual teachings since childhood. With my discovery of the yoga practice, I discovered a path of prayer and insight, using the vessel my body to see and feel the world with more clarity. With continued practice, I continue to walk down that path today. I teach asana based classes, infused qi gong, grounded in meditation and pranayama. My classes are physically invigorating and anatomically accurate, combining slow flow style vinyasa, infused with the detail and awareness of the Iyengar tradition, as I guide my students to inquire how the practices can best suit their unique needs. I draw from my experiences as a yogi and a qi gong practitioner, but also my time spent as an artist, dancer, clown, farmer, 12-step program community member and severe brain injury survivor. I balance sincere devotional practice with joy and community building, all stung together with intent of integrating all parts of ourselves into a dynamic, breathing whole.
I am consistently humbled and in awe of the unfolding power of sustained practice, and I’m grateful student to my numerous teachers, and their teachers before them. I completed my RYT 200-hour training through the Boston Yoga School, under the guidance of Ame Wren, Joanna Benevides and Brenna Mathews, in March of 2014. In recent years, I have studied extensively with Kevin Courtney (previously of the Kula Yoga Project) and Thomas Droge (Element Center for Daoist Studies). Under their tutelage, I completed The Bridge Practice, a 9 month course of study exploring the connections between vedic and daoist scriptual teachings alongside their respective physical practices. In early 2017, I began to explore Cherokee ceremonial teachings under the guidance of Yona Frenchhawk and Carolyn Little. In addition to these teachers, I study regularly with Annie Hoffman, Iyengar Yoga Teacher for over 30 years, and Georiga Reath, founder of Blue Light Yoga. Over the years, I've had several other incredible teachers, including Joanne Flaherty, Alex Auder, Jaqui Bonwell, Zach Ducak, Alison Sinatra, Nikki Vilella, Gabriel Halpbern, Vilma Zaleskaite, Chip Hartranft, Barbara Benaugh, Alana Brennan, and Fez Aswat. I am ever grateful for them all.
Off the mat, I am an artist, fisherman and farmer. As an artist my work explores themes faith and fear, beauty and the grotesque, the masculine and the feminine, and sexuality, across several mediums. In my daily life I balance sincere devotional practice with costumes and play, the everyday and the circus. I love spiritual and occult practices from around the world. It is my dream to live on a farm, surrounded by animals and children, making art and loving God.
I view the yoga practice as a means of meditation, a roadmap through the mind and body for helping us connect with our supreme Selves. The yoga practice offers us a chance to be in touch with our creative selves, our true nature, allowing us to move inward towards the source of our own light. With practice, we stoke that light, allowing it to shine through us, enriching our lives and the lives of those around us. My role as a teacher is simply to facilitate the practice and help my students access the teachings in a way that is applicable to them. The fundamental teachings lie in continued practice itself.
I have been a grateful student of yoga since 2008, but I have had physical connection to spiritual teachings since childhood. With my discovery of the yoga practice, I discovered a path of prayer and insight, using the vessel my body to see and feel the world with more clarity. With continued practice, I continue to walk down that path today. I teach asana based classes, infused qi gong, grounded in meditation and pranayama. My classes are physically invigorating and anatomically accurate, combining slow flow style vinyasa, infused with the detail and awareness of the Iyengar tradition, as I guide my students to inquire how the practices can best suit their unique needs. I draw from my experiences as a yogi and a qi gong practitioner, but also my time spent as an artist, dancer, clown, farmer, 12-step program community member and severe brain injury survivor. I balance sincere devotional practice with joy and community building, all stung together with intent of integrating all parts of ourselves into a dynamic, breathing whole.
I am consistently humbled and in awe of the unfolding power of sustained practice, and I’m grateful student to my numerous teachers, and their teachers before them. I completed my RYT 200-hour training through the Boston Yoga School, under the guidance of Ame Wren, Joanna Benevides and Brenna Mathews, in March of 2014. In recent years, I have studied extensively with Kevin Courtney (previously of the Kula Yoga Project) and Thomas Droge (Element Center for Daoist Studies). Under their tutelage, I completed The Bridge Practice, a 9 month course of study exploring the connections between vedic and daoist scriptual teachings alongside their respective physical practices. In early 2017, I began to explore Cherokee ceremonial teachings under the guidance of Yona Frenchhawk and Carolyn Little. In addition to these teachers, I study regularly with Annie Hoffman, Iyengar Yoga Teacher for over 30 years, and Georiga Reath, founder of Blue Light Yoga. Over the years, I've had several other incredible teachers, including Joanne Flaherty, Alex Auder, Jaqui Bonwell, Zach Ducak, Alison Sinatra, Nikki Vilella, Gabriel Halpbern, Vilma Zaleskaite, Chip Hartranft, Barbara Benaugh, Alana Brennan, and Fez Aswat. I am ever grateful for them all.
Off the mat, I am an artist, fisherman and farmer. As an artist my work explores themes faith and fear, beauty and the grotesque, the masculine and the feminine, and sexuality, across several mediums. In my daily life I balance sincere devotional practice with costumes and play, the everyday and the circus. I love spiritual and occult practices from around the world. It is my dream to live on a farm, surrounded by animals and children, making art and loving God.
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built." - Rumi
