If you are challenged by chronic stress, anxiety and even panic, day to day living may take significant energy. I understand the life-altering, potential-stealing effects of habitual anxiety, worry and intrusive thoughts and I am honored to share the tools that can help you restore calm, resilience and authentic confidence.
You are unique, the system of healing that is right for you will be unique too. Yoga Therapy/Somatic skills are meaningful modalities that offer specific evidence-based techniques for your own individual needs. Personalized tools like appropriate movement, breath skills, meditations, imagery and cognitive processes help people who are struggling with a variety of challenges often related to anxiety, like depression, addiction, stress, shame, self-doubt, digestive issues and physical pain.
About Me
After spending my twenties as a stressed-out radio host, I was seeking respite from acute anxiety and scary attacks of panic. I received surprising relief when I discovered the power of appropriate movement, breath and mindful meditation. Newfound presence taught me to compassionately question my thoughts and rebuild a relationship of trust with my body. Always a seeker, my studies have been continuous as I gratefully share the teachings that continue to support me.
My formal education in the studies of therapeutic yoga began in Encinitas, California in 2009. I became a certified yoga instructor in the Anusara method which was the beginning of gathering insight into why the elements of a yoga practice are helpful for soothing an anxious mind and body. I continued to study somatic coaching in Avila Beach, CA, and completed Licensed Psychotherapist and Yoga Educator Ashley Turner’s 300 hour “Yoga and Psychology” program in Venice Beach.
Desiring to take this work into spaces attending to mental health, I was drawn to Yoga Therapy and the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School based in Massachusetts. Now, as a certified Yoga Therapist, Somatic Coach and a 500 hr Yoga Teacher, I offer a variety of therapeutic experiences at Behavioural Health Centers, in yoga studios, at workplaces, retreats and during personalized sessions.
A yoga therapist draws from the vast system of yoga, including the inspiring science related to yoga- Ayurveda, mindfulness practices, and personal development skills to craft experiences to help people support themselves through difficulties like anxiety, overwhelm, injury, fatigue, and stress. Whether it's peace, strength, flexibility of the body and mind, physical or emotional healing we seek, yoga, meditation, and the countless empowering skills in a yoga therapist’s toolbox can be helpful. I humbly and thankfully acknowledge the origins of these practices and am honored to pass them on through the lens of someone once seeking mental health support, and coming away with a life long practice that bolsters every aspect of life.