I’m gonna give you the long one here, if you’re hoping for the TL:DR version make your way to IG for the picture book version and get scrolling, it’s got all the goods.

Ready for the nostalgia blog version? it’s right here for you ⬇️

In the last 15 years, I’ve traveled the world and circled the globe teaching as a nomad leading weekend workshops, practice intensives, yoga retreats, and training teachers in the Awakening Yoga method.

But already, trying to explain yourself or do the stories justice to others is always tricky business. Lots of caveats, long winded world building, and ‘well, for a while I was really into…’ as if our lives should only exist as a linear memoir rather than a beautiful collection of short stories.

I have waded through so much more that I ever expected when I first stepped onto my yoga mat. at 21 after a mini-lifetime of team sports, competitive cheerleading, and a less-than healthy relationship with both movement and myself - I wandered into a yoga studio like so many before me; a little lost and with no idea what I was doing.

Here’s the thing about Yoga specifically that somehow settles itself a little bit deeper in your soul: it’s really truly just about you. a wildly selfish, just somehow forever self-less discipline that will undoubtably change your life.

The yoga practice requires intrinsic motivation perhaps more than any other discipline I’ve known, it calls to all the layers body / breath / mind / energy / spirit so that no matter which sheath calls to you, or what keeps you in the practice, there is a version for every season of life or each of your short stories.

Practicing for 15 years and teaching for 13, yoga, movement & wellbeing have been the driving force in my life.

Seattle born & raised, I graduated from the University of Washington in 2010 with a liberal arts degree in History & Human Rights.

Mom to a wild little 4 year old girl who never stops reminding me why all the yoga really matters. is she my real (very tiny) teacher? absolutely.

The Seeker and The Teacher archetypes both have top seeds in my chart and I owe so much of my expertise to those who have come before:

Annie Carpenter, Tiffany Russo, Kathryn Budig, Tias Little, David Regelin, Jules Mitchell, Phillip Askew shaping my asana.

Carl Jung, Caroline Myss, Kat Karsen lighting my spirits way through Archtypal exploraiton, sacred work, and Western Usui Reiki.

Penny Simpkin & Bastyr University for my forever fascination in the birth world and women’s wellness.

Functional Range Systems, Hunter Cook, Kelly Starrett, Perry Nickelston, and the many movers who have let me sit and stare at them to deconstruct it all while building my deep, extra nerdy love of mobility & performance.

I fulfilled my quintessential Pacific Northwest duties to work at a tech start up for at least a few years, simultaneously stayed up all night long building a global yoga community in the early powerful days of social media, secretly used my PTO to visit my Teacher Annie in LA, and truly, just kept showing up on the mat day by day until it engulfed my entire life (but like, in the best ways).

Ready for a return to home base after years of travel teaching like a little yoga indie band, it was the right moment to dive into the studio world. In 2017 I opened yoga studios in both Los Angeles, California and Seattle, Washington.

My first baby, Commune Yoga studio grew from ideation to full studio design & build out, managing citywide teaching teams, spearheading operations, and creating the ever expanding world of Commune Online and its home practice apps.

With the magic of online classes & program consulting I’ve bridged the borders of these special international yoga communities through my work with Alo Moves (formerly CodyApp), Virgin Active, Commune Yoga, and provided free education across nearly 300k followers on my social platforms.

After 8 years of studio ownership, this year I sold my stake in Commune & Commune Online in the summer of 2023. Passing the torch and ready for the next big chapter while staying rooted in my core love of training teachers through my yoga school, Awakening Yoga Academy.

Teaching yoga is never ‘just’ teaching yoga, its self exploration, vulnerability, business know-how, personal agency, and endless engagement with the students who show up to you eager to learn and continue the cycle.

It’s a real-deal honor and I can’t wait to share everything I’ve gathered along the way with you.