sitting with my teacher's teacher in pashupatinath / kathmandu, nepal
Hello and thank you for being here.
I first discovered Yoga and meditation during college studying Human Rights and Social Justice, but began deepening my practice while I was working as a Program Coordinator and Advocate Counselor for underserved and marginalized youth/young adults in New York City. My Yoga practice quickly became a ritual of self-care; a space to breathe and feel and rest so that I could show up and do better each day. After five years of working in non-profit education and youth development partnerships in NYC, I moved with my partner to Abu Dhabi, UAE.
I completed my first Yoga Teacher Training in the sacred Kathmandu Valley of Nepal with Heather Elton.
I am grateful to be practicing in liberation with rev. angel Kyodo Williams.
I hold additional training/certification in:
- Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT)
- Accessible Yoga (Jivana Heyman)
- Advanced Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness (David Treleaven)
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention
- Somatic Abolitionism (Resmaa Menakem)
- Teen Yoga (Charlotta Martinus)
- The Embodiment Institute (Prentis Hemphill)
- Yogic Studies (Seth Powell)
- Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) with The Justice Resource Institute
- Yoga for All (Dianne Bondy and Amber Karnes)
- Trauma Informed Yoga Therapy (Sundara Yoga Therapy)
- Yoga for Cancer (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
neydo tashi pharphing monastery / photo taken with student consent
I believe that Yoga is a practice of liberation. It begins in the body, but it doesn't stop there. It is a practice of compassionate action. It is seeing the reality of injustice while envisioning something better for all of us. At the same time, I acknowledge and honor the deep roots of yoga and mindfulness practices, which ultimately are not mine to own or claim.
I am a certified Yoga Therapist with the IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists), recent adjunct faculty for Robin Rothenberg's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee (Essential Yoga Therapy), as well as a faculty member for Heather Elton's 200-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings (London and Nepal) where I facilitate modules on the intersections of trauma, wellness, and systemic change.
At the start of 2020, I returned to the United States to my home state of Michigan. I recognize that I am living and working on the indigenous lands of the Ojibwe, Odawa, Bodewadmi nations (Three Fires Confederacy) / Kalamazoo, Michigan USA.
From 2021-2023 I was an external member of Kalamazoo Community Foundation's Anti-Racism Transformation Team (ARTT) which was committed to dismantling the racist policies and practices that exist within the foundation.
Currently, I am a Racial Healing Facilitator for Michigan Transformation Collective (formerly TRHT Kalamazoo).
I am a certified Yoga Therapist with the IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists), recent adjunct faculty for Robin Rothenberg's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee (Essential Yoga Therapy), as well as a faculty member for Heather Elton's 200-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings (London and Nepal) where I facilitate modules on the intersections of trauma, wellness, and systemic change.
At the start of 2020, I returned to the United States to my home state of Michigan. I recognize that I am living and working on the indigenous lands of the Ojibwe, Odawa, Bodewadmi nations (Three Fires Confederacy) / Kalamazoo, Michigan USA.
From 2021-2023 I was an external member of Kalamazoo Community Foundation's Anti-Racism Transformation Team (ARTT) which was committed to dismantling the racist policies and practices that exist within the foundation.
Currently, I am a Racial Healing Facilitator for Michigan Transformation Collective (formerly TRHT Kalamazoo).
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