My interest in the embodiment arts of Japan, China, and India began in my early professional career as a dancer where I was invited to study and perform in the Japanese Dance mediums of Noh, Kabuki, Kyogen, and Butoh. I went on to learn about Daoist Cultivation Arts and developed a personal healing practice based in the wisdom of Chinese Medicine, Qigong, Neigong, and Daoist Yoga; which informs the way I teach restorative, yin, and flow based asana practices.

The philosophical teachings of Yoga touched my life through the writings of J. Krishnamurti and teachings of BKS Iyengar as shared by my first teacher Meera Sanghani in 2005. I do not identify with a specific guru or lineage as a student of Yoga and that is a reflection of J. Krishnamurti’s impact on my practice. Krishnamurti advised against following any doctrine, discipline, or guru. However, he was a student of Desikachar and therefore Krishnamacharya. His pedagogy has greatly influenced my teaching practice; centering a global outlook, concern for people and the planet, as well as a balancing of the religious spirit with scientific temper. My early Yoga practice was formed and shaped by the benefits of long holds buoyed up by props and the emergent therapeutic nature of B.K.S Iyengar and his family's teachings.

Many years later, I deepened my meditative journey as a student of Engaged Buddhism (Mahayana based Zen) with The Order of Interbeing and Plum Village as pioneered by Thich Nhat Hanh. The monastics at Plum Village have not only deeply influenced my spiritual life, but also my artistic practice.

Academically and more formally, I earned a BFA in Performance at Chicago College of Performing Arts and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art & Regenerative Culture at University of New Mexico. I focused my graduate school research on the intersections of embodied practices and ecological healing. I have been working as a dance educator & choreographer since 2004 and a yoga and meditation teacher since 2012.