My personal practice and my teaching philosophy share a single intention: to realize the inherent union of mind, body and breath, combined with a practical application of that union for healing, equanimity and physical ease.
My primary interest as both a student of yoga and meditation and as an instructor is in understanding the relationship between psyche and soma, and the effectiveness of yoga and meditation practices to address “dis-ease” in whatever form it might take, be it physical pain due to chronic postural habit or injury; or psychological hurt brought on by depression or emotional or physical trauma. I look at yoga and meditation as psychological and physical practices. They are tools for enabling greater understanding and evolution of the self.
I took my first yoga class in 2000, and completed my RYT certification in 2007. I have been teaching ever since. In 2014, I made teaching private yoga my sole source of income, and now offer private meditation instruction as well.
My teaching style incorporates a strong foundation in the principles of safe, modifiable alignment, precision and judicious use of props, along with deeper somatic and anatomical exploration to locate balance, strength and space in the body, and where appropriate, slower heat-building sequences. Emphasis on breath is another indispensable touchstone of my own practice and my teaching, and I strive always to introduce the practice of dharana, or what we might recognize in current parlance as “mindfulness.” In all of my teaching I hope to encourage the development of internal awareness that focuses and calms the mind not just during the time and space of our practice, but in the space of our day to day lives.
In private sessions, I often work with students in their 40’s and beyond, and those with specific structural imbalances or need for increased range of motion, bone health, and balance. I consider it a great privilege to work with people coming to (or well into) their, as psychologist James Hollis puts it, “middle passage,” as I feel yoga and meditation are invaluable tools for helping us navigate the wisdom half of life.
In my ongoing quest to broaden and deepen my understanding and practice of yoga I follow the work of Ellen Criswell, Mark Stephens, Richard Rosen, Karin Burke, Tias Little, Ray Long, MD, and Leslie Kaminoff, and Judith Hanson Lasater, Lizzie Lasater, Mary Richards, Bernie Clark, Peter Blackaby, and Donna Farhi as well as writings in yoga history, Eastern and Western psychology and yoga philosophy by B.K.S. Iyengar, Georg Feuerstein, Eknath Easwaran, Edwin Bryant, Carl Jung, James Hillman, and James Conger, and others.
I offer private yoga and meditation classes to individuals and groups all over Dallas, including East Dallas, Deep Ellum, downtown, Uptown/Oak Lawn, the Park Cities and Addison.
Teaching Experience: 16 years+ *
*As of Mar 2024"
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