My parents owned a martial arts dojo, so naturally I grew up practicing martial arts from the time that I was a toddler and thus my lifelong love of movement began.  I developed a desire to study human health from a broader prospective, so I pursued nursing in undergraduate and graduate school— but my fascination of movement specifically never went away.  Shortly after I became a Registered Nurse, I qualified with the American College of Sports Medicine as an Exercise Physiologist.  Over the years, I trained in a broad variety of fitness and movement methodologies, including group fitness, yoga, Crossfit, and Movnat.  

Although I have been a yoga practitioner since I was 16-years-old, it wasn’t until I started learning about the connection of stress, trauma, and nervous system dysregulation with chronic pain that I came to truly understand the power of yoga as a therapeutic modality.  My yoga mat became my place of refuge as I began to explore the connections between the sensations in my physical body, the thoughts in my mind, the emotions in my heart, and my relationship with myself and others.

These experiences led me to seek additional training in yoga, somatics, trauma, grief and loss, mindbody medicine, polyvagal theory, the fascia system, chronic pain, and neuroscience. There are many teachers that have greatly influenced my current practice, including Marylene Henry, Wendy Black Stern, Nityda Gessel, Dr. Howard Schubiner, Jill Miller, Julie Martin, and Dr. Arielle Schwartz.