I began practicing yoga in 1997 with a Rodney Yee VHS tape (thank you, Mr. Yee!) that I randomly decided to purchase, never having heard of yoga before. 

 

My practice continued sporadically at home with VHS & DVDs until I became consistent & started practicing at a studio in 2013 as I sought a physical outlet to replace running.

 

When a yoga retreat in Nicaragua in 2014 changed my life, I began to experience yoga as more than physical.

 

The retreat helped me realize how unhappy I was & yet how I felt stuck in a life that I didn't remember choosing.  Yoga helped me reconnect with myself & what I truly wanted & to remember that I am free to create my life. It was on this retreat that I learned to meditate & meditation has been my primary practice of yoga ever since for its life-changing effects.

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I went home & took my first yoga teacher training & began the difficult process of leaving a job & relationship that hadn't been aligned for some time.  Throughout, I overcame much conditioning & many inner & outer obstacles in order to leave the societally & parentally approved path to live my dream of living a simple life abroad that I still feel like I'm living each day. Yoga has also helped to free me from a past of anxiety & depression.

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As such, out of a background of dabbling in marine biology, exercise physiology, zoology, microbiology, molecular biology, education, & wilderness therapy field guiding—to name a few things—yoga is the thing that has stuck.

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It brings me more peace, contentment, & joy everyday during even the 'downs' as well as the 'ups' of life, & it continues to help me expand what I think is possible & get out of my own way—& this is what I wish to share with others!

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​I love surfing, the speed of slow honey, a simple life lived mostly outdoors, life/self experiments, & learning daily as a constant student & explorer of yoga & life.  

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