I began down the path of body alignment and health and wellness when I stepped into my first yoga class at the age of seventeen. I was always an athlete—soccer, baseball, football, swimming, tennis, running. This first yoga class was the hardest thing I had ever done before. I was hooked.
Within months I decided to take the Baron Baptiste 200-hour yoga training in upstate New York and during my junior year at Allegheny College, I created a yoga program for my peers. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and stepped full-time into teaching yoga throughout the Boston metropolitan area. I continued my yoga trainings, began training in reiki and embraced meditation and other mindfulness practices. In addition to my teaching and coaching I began leading yoga trainings both nationally and internationally and facilitating teacher development groups all over the country.
Blending concepts from Power, Vinyasa, and Yin yoga with the practices of meditation and reiki enabled me to create a style of yoga that benefited most of my students but I still recognized that people were in pain and, no matter what methods they tried, were unable to realign their bodies in a way that allowed them to be pain free.
At this same time, I had an injury at the gym. Now the question of what we can do with our bodies to alleviate our pain became even more personal and I discovered both the Egoscue method and Functional Patterns. Taking these trainings and integrating them into my knowledge of yoga and healing was an obvious marriage of methods. After healing my own back I soon began to work with others.
I offer a unique experience that unifies the physical and spiritual elements of these many different practices. I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with you and help bring your body into balance.
Within months I decided to take the Baron Baptiste 200-hour yoga training in upstate New York and during my junior year at Allegheny College, I created a yoga program for my peers. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and stepped full-time into teaching yoga throughout the Boston metropolitan area. I continued my yoga trainings, began training in reiki and embraced meditation and other mindfulness practices. In addition to my teaching and coaching I began leading yoga trainings both nationally and internationally and facilitating teacher development groups all over the country.
Blending concepts from Power, Vinyasa, and Yin yoga with the practices of meditation and reiki enabled me to create a style of yoga that benefited most of my students but I still recognized that people were in pain and, no matter what methods they tried, were unable to realign their bodies in a way that allowed them to be pain free.
At this same time, I had an injury at the gym. Now the question of what we can do with our bodies to alleviate our pain became even more personal and I discovered both the Egoscue method and Functional Patterns. Taking these trainings and integrating them into my knowledge of yoga and healing was an obvious marriage of methods. After healing my own back I soon began to work with others.
I offer a unique experience that unifies the physical and spiritual elements of these many different practices. I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with you and help bring your body into balance.
- Postural Alignment Specialist through the Egoscue Institute
- Human Foundations Practitioner through Functional Patterns
- ERYT-500 hour certified yoga teacher
- 200-hour training with Baron Baptiste of Baptiste Power Yoga
- 300-hour training with Claire Este McDonald and Gregor Singleton of Divine Play Yoga
- Yin Yoga training through Josh Summers
- UMA Reiki Master through Anne Marie
DISCLAIMER: In my capacity as a Postural Alignment Specialist I am not providing health care, medical services or attempting to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure in any manner whatsoever any physical ailment, or any mental or emotional issue, disease or condition. By agreeing to work with me you agree and acknowledge that I am not providing medical advice, mental health advice, or religious advice in any way.
I am not holding myself out to be a Medical Provider (including but not limited to doctor/physician, nurse, physician’s assistant or allied health professional, physical therapist, etc), Mental Health Provider (including but not limited to psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, counselor, or social worker)