My Approach​​

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My training in India gave me solid foundations in teaching yoga asana and pranayama.​

My journey with yoga first began in 2015, when I moved to Delhi, India and began studying yoga in the tradition of Sri Krishnamacharya. Since then, I have cumulatively spent about two years in India. I completed my 2-year, 500-hour RYT yoga teacher training with Saraswathi Vasudevan at YogaVahini (Chennai, India) and I'm grateful for the unwavering mentorship and community support I've received in Chennai that provides continued guidance. I have taught in studios and privately since 2019 and I am committed to a lifelong study of yoga that I continue to deepen through ongoing trainings. My training has included class instruction from senior teachers in this tradition, study and chanting of the yoga sutras, individual mentoring, internship, class observation and practice teaching – all of which has given me a solid foundation in a tradition that has been taught from teacher to pupil over thousands of years.​

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I have clear boundaries around what I can and cannot help with.

Yoga practices are not like tools to solve problems. They are practices to increasingly see ourselves and our environment more clearly, and through that clarity to help us help ourselves. I will not promise or “sell” solutions to issues that are often deeply complex and personal. I ask for help from my mentors when I need guidance, and I am honest with students when I don’t know the answer.

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I specialize in: 

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• Developing a regular personal yoga practice 

  • Tailored to your unique body and mind

• Self-inquiry for self-care

  • Physical and psychological excavations to better understand how to care for yourself

• Deepening your yoga practice 

• Asana (physical practices) and pranayama (breathing practices) for seniors

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I strive to teach tradition-based yoga relationally and respectfully.

As a cultural outsider to this tradition, I treat this lineage of yoga with great reverence. The great teacher T.K.V. Desikachar once said yoga is a relationship. It's a relationship between you and your practice, you and your body, you and your breath, you and your teacher. I interrogate my own relationship to the traditions and cultures of yoga as part of my regular practice. With this grounding, my aim is to help you develop your own relationships through a foundation of personalized yoga practice.

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I recognize that the real teacher is within the student.

Though I offer practices that help elicit clarity and wellbeing, it is the student’s experience of a practice that will result in real and lasting healing. My teachers have always stressed that your practice will show you the way. Through our work together, we'll create a personal practice for you that will support you and your goals for yourself, be it improving physical strength and flexibility, or fortifying inner resilience to deal with life's problems. I hold the student-teacher boundary firmly and humbly. 

 

Study with me from anywhere

​I currently teach exclusively online though I am available to teach at events, workshops, and retreats in Seattle and Santa Barbara.