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A Yogic Path

My journey began early on with a natural talent for coordination and curiosity for cosmic knowledge. What I did not realize when I was younger, is that a focus on breath is a gateway to healing.

Fortunate to have abundant opportunities singing and dancing that trained my breath awareness early on, later formative years unearthed unexpected talent as a sharp shooter. Highlighting my innate affinity for body/mind attunement, my naturally heightened senses of interoception and proprioception set me up for success.

A Theatre girl at heart who happened to have good aim, I was also the kid with my nose buried in an astrology book (before it was a trendy topic.) I love immersing myself in mystical philosophy! Following in the footsteps of a gifted maternal line with inherited intuition, my interest in esoteric studies only increases with age. In 2009, I moved on from a decade of coffee shop management into full-time journalism as Pittsburgh Correspondent for Courthouse News Service. It was then that I was drawn to work with the body movement connection promised alongside the wellness and exercise benefits of a yoga practice. A metaphysical and physical connection, traditional studies, meditation and asana, the entire practice itself quickly became a vital part of my every-day life.

Deepening my own practice put me on paths with transformative trainings to be a teacher and healer. True transformation is challenging, and the “unbecoming” of what was not really meant for me left me raw. Living through multiple (5) concussions, unprecedented personal loss including jobs, third spaces, networks, even friend and family abandonment that was nothing less than life altering. Before it all happened, I would have said none of it ever could have. Due to my belief in my perspective-created reality at the time, my people-pleasing and hyper-viligant nervous system responses had me taking too much responsibility for everyone else’s feelings. Becoming aware of my ability to offer compassion via empathy is a gift that I needed to learn how to offer genuinely without sacrificing my own sense of worthiness.

Becoming the healer that I am today required a humbling in order to rebuild myself. I needed to understand what it means to surrender and to co-create, to be truthful and authentic about my own feelings first. Offering self-compassion before any offers outward. Now, I actually have space to be grateful for the trials and tribulations along this path as I am entirely prepared with a well-earned readiness for whatever comes my way. Especially anyone seeking their own path to authenticity!

As a decades tenured theater teaching artist working in Pittsburgh, I believe that the “best” teachers are really mostly just very dedicated students. We share our own practice in hopes that it might help another along their path (in the ways that our teachers helped us and their teachers helped them and on and on and on…)

On this path as yoga teacher and mystic healer, I marked my the first yoga certification in 2013 with nearly a dozen more teaching and healing modalities added through the last decade. My first advanced yoga certification was awarded in 2023 with a Reiki Master certification in Summer 2024. Now teaching yoga full-time, offering private yoga and reiki sessions and certified to train new teachers. It is a privilege and honor to walk alongside you on your path to healing.

Join in on your mat !