Welcome!

I am grateful for my students who have shown up over the past four months to practice online. When I began teaching online during quarantine, I thought it would be for two, maybe three months. I considered it an in between period, anticipating a quick return to in-person classes. But we are well into our fifth month of quarantine and I’m accepting this is our here and now. I am learning to leave behind the idea that quarantine is an in between space and am embracing the richness of each moment. 

In response to this new perspective, I’ve created more intentional online offerings. I now offer class two days a week and have plans to host workshops in the near future. The class format I’ll be teaching includes Vinyasa, restorative and meditation. I believe this is what many of our bodies need as we live during a pandemic and confront the crisis of racial inequity in America.

Yoga can be an act of resistance to the messages we are fed from our culture and society. Many of us, myself included, have been taught to believe that productivity is more important than anything else. For a long time my Vinyasa practice was an extension of my overly productive ways. But productivity can get the best of us and before we know it we are stressed and angry. When stress goes unattended it shows up as disease. Yoga asana, restorative yoga, Yoga Nidra, meditation and self-inquiry are all practices that help us check our relationship with productivity and show up more fully for ourselves and our communities.

This is the kind of practice I intend to share with you.