"I believe in each person's innate wisdom, but I also firmly believe in good guidance. I am honored and blessed to share my vision of a more balanced, healthy, spirit-oriented life of service and love with you at The Bhaktishop."

"The mystery of life is that while love involves selfless giving, it makes one whole." - Swami BV Tripurari

“Over the course of my 10 years with yoga I have found myself steering more and more toward the quieter aspects of the practice.”

"For the first time all of my passions, interests and sincere beliefs had a vehicle, a masterpiece, a complete practice and study; the age-old, time-honored and wise art of Ayurveda."

“Yoga makes sense to me, but mostly it makes sense of me.”

Birth is not only about making babies. It's about making mothers; strong, competent, capable mothers..."

"I am interested in working deeply with principles of skeletal, muscular and energetic alignment, while also sharing the rich mythical, spiritual, and historical lineage that yoga asana descends from."

"Yoga endows us with the power of self-reflective awareness. "

"The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest." - Bruce Lee

"Teaching yoga was a natural extension of tending to the human spirit..."

"I strive to bring a trauma-informed lens into any class I teach, giving students a clear sense of choice, options and permission to listen and trust the language of their body..."

As we move through the shapes of asana and cultivate our "somatic architecture" we bring mindfulness to how we physically organize, unwind, and reorganize. In this process we come to understand how our physicality gives rise to and is affected by our mental and emotional states.

"I am very passionate about yoga and the healing benefits of yoga practice."

"Now, more than ever before, yoga is the way I show respect for the beauty of life and the energy of the earth. Yoga is where I play and explore; it's where I find a sense of being grounded and a sense of stillness."

I enjoy bringing yoga to those who may not find it on their own and I have a special interest in restorative and trauma informed yoga practices, as well as teaching children.

"In yoga, I can practice both movement and stillness, playing along the edge of exertion and relaxation. Somewhere in between I find my center. Yoga  provides me the space to build a better relationship with my breath, my body, my self."

"Through this perfect storm of philosophy, movement, mechanics and aliveness, yoga started to act on me, as it does, slowly eroding who I was not and helping me understand who I am."

"There is something special about the practice of moving together, feeling the support of another human’s presence, while at the same time having your own very personal and often intimate experience."

"It’s not always pretty, it’s not always fun and it’s not always connected – but it’s always there. It’s steady. It’s real. Inspiring me to stop, listen and connect."

"Be You. Laugh, cry, sigh, and please, practice YOUR yoga."

"Asana provides an excellent outlet for understanding ourselves more deeply, while providing a space in which we can strive to make sense of ourselves and our place in relation to each other and the world."