My yoga journey began when I took my first yoga class with my mom at about 10 years old.  Yoga has been a part of my life in one way or another ever since. I did my first teacher training in 2012 at Yoga to the People in San Francisco and began teaching a 26 posture hot sequence.  Since then I have completed a 200-hour vinyasa training, 500-hour ashtanga training, 50-hour rocket training, 50-hour yin and deep stretch training, and a 50-hour barre and pilates medicine training.  

 

Yoga has opened up countless doors and I’m eternally grateful to the practice.  After 6 years of working as a full time yoga teacher in California and Arizona, I wanted to incorporate aspects of traditional healing and nature therapy into my offerings.  In 2016, I traveled to Chiang Mai to study, teach yoga, and immerse myself in a different culture. I ended up traveling to Indonesia on a visa run and, on a whim, decided to try scuba diving after many years of being on land.  My first dive was an “aha!” moment. Diving was exactly like yoga and the missing link in my quest to marry yoga, healing, and nature therapy.

 

Shortly after I packed up my backpack in Chiang Mai and returned to Indonesia to work on a divemaster internship.  When my co-workers learned that I woke up at 5am to practice yoga before meeting at the shop, they were curious and asked me to teach them.  Those first classes with diver friends, around the training pool of our shop, were the beginning of the dream for this retreat.

 

My classes are an eclectic mix of what inspires me.  I emphasize breathing, alignment, and curiosity. It is my goal to encourage students to responsibly explore their own capability and test their edge while raising awareness of the oneness of creation.  Namaste.