I was born on Maui and raised in Encinitas, California, so nature and movement have always felt like home to me. I have practiced yoga for over 20 years, and in 2025, I completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training through CorePower Yoga.

I love nature, religious studies, esoteric philosophy, and exploring the relationship between the body, mind, and spirit. I am endlessly curious about what makes us who we are and how much wisdom already exists within us.

My approach to yoga begins with a simple truth: your body is not separate from your mind. Your body is you.

We are often taught to treat the body like one more thing we need to manage, improve, or force into submission. Honestly, that makes taking care of yourself feel like another chore. I believe it can be much more interesting than that. When we approach the body with curiosity and trust that it is always communicating with us, listening becomes a form of discovery.

Stretching is not about reaching a particular pose or getting something “correct.” It is about feeling where your body is, discovering its limits, and learning to stay present with them. Once you learn how to honor your limits in your body, you can begin honoring them everywhere else too, including your work, relationships, and daily life.

Yoga is about feeling your body, period. It is not about pushing yourself so hard that you stop feeling, and it is not another way to run away from yourself. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is slow down, breathe, and notice what is actually happening within you.

For anyone who has experienced something intense and does not always want to explain or analyze it, yoga can offer a quieter path toward healing. Movement, breath, and attention give the body space to process and release what it has been carrying. You do not need to have the perfect words. You can begin by feeling.

As we grow, we often create different versions of ourselves in response to what we experience. Some versions receive approval. Some help us feel protected. Some emerge because they were exactly who we needed to be at the time. Eventually, however, we may find ourselves moving through life from these different identities without knowing which one is truly us.

To me, healing is the process of meeting all of those parts, giving them some love, and welcoming them home. This is what it means to remember. We gather the different members of ourselves and bring them back into one whole being.

As we become more integrated, we stop reacting from whichever hurt part happens to be activated. We begin living from a clear, concentric center. We get to know the self beneath all of the adaptations. I believe this is also a way of knowing God and discovering our highest identity.

There is something naturally magnetic about a person who feels whole. When we are no longer unconsciously asking every room to fill something within us, we become free to bring energy into it. We can create, connect, play, and contribute from truth rather than hurt.

My teaching is ultimately about making it fun to know yourself and becoming someone you genuinely want to know. We are not fighting the body or forcing it to become something else. We are looking, listening, moving, and feeling.

Your body is with you. Your body is you. It has been speaking all along.

Let's listen.