I have been a photographer ever since I knew how to use a camera. My love of photography brought me from the suburbs of Chicago to Hampshire College, where I discovered yoga and began to examine the way the world perceives women and their bodies and how I lived in mine. The same year I graduated college, I began to teach yoga and work in the world of commercial advertising photography, while making and exhibiting my own images on the side. Not long after relocating to San Francisco, I was called to devote more of my energy to the healing arts and my own creativity and left the world of advertising. As I got deeper into my studies of yoga and bodywork, I found that following my visceral curiosity; emotional connection and visual attraction to pregnant women would tie all of my interests together. Assisting mammas in cultivating the tools to bring their babies into the world in a peaceful and healthy way is now my primary focus.

In addition to teaching prenatal yoga, I love sharing yoga with a wide variety of people. Since 1997, I have taught yoga in Chicago, throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as in Mexico, Thailand, Costa Rica and even on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. I encourage my students to approach yoga as a way of life, to practice with a beginner's mind, with loving-kindness and with sincerity. My creative style of teaching places a strong emphasis on alignment, sequencing, breath and inner awareness, while my approach is imbued with warmth, humor and honesty. Though my yoga background is diverse, I have studied primarily Iyengar Yoga, while weaving in influences of other traditions, especially Viniyoga and Vipassana (Buddhist Insight) Meditation. Along with being an avid surfer, I love to do headstands on mountaintops and beaches all around the world. My insatiable thirst for travel and education has brought me around the world, to study photography in Paris, massage in Thailand, and yoga with the Iyengars in India. After witnessing tremendous healing within myself through Restorative Yoga, I was inspired to become certified to teach Restorative Yoga by Judith Lasater. Though I now enjoy an active practice as well, Restorative Yoga continues to be the foundation of my wellbeing.

The inspiration for all of the work that I do is born from my appreciation for the wisdom of the body. I enjoy helping people uncover the intricate connection between their bodies, minds, breath and vision. I see my role as one of simply reflecting and bringing to the surface what is already present within my clients, students, models and viewers. The body is the container, the home for the spirit. If we can feel peaceful in our own bodies, treating them with reverence and respect, our spirits can shine a light of inspiration and peace out into the world around us.

“Be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi