Just BE Yourself.

     I've been practicing yoga for more than twenty years and teaching since 2006, with a brief hiatus in 2015. My first yoga certification was a correspondence course through Aura Wellness Center in Attleboro, Massachusetts. I craved in-person instruction, so, in 2011, I graduated from The Yoga Center of Jackson as a 200 HR Certified Yoga Instructor.  

     I continued my education with Deborah Perry, e-RYT 500, in 2012, obtaining my own 500 Registered Yoga Therapist certification.  

     My preferred teaching style is Hatha yoga lightly seasoned with vinyasa, flow and yin yoga. Every class is suitable for beginners and non-beginners alike. I like to offer modifications for most poses to tailor the challenge to each person's individual needs.

     In 2015, I suffered a significant knee injury while riding my bicycle with my husband. The accident resulted in a completely torn ACL and MCL and an avulsion fracture on my LCL.  The damage and necessary recovery required 2 separate repair surgeries and a forced manipulation to break up scar tissue.  

     The MCL was repaired first and I was sent to my first (ever) round of physical therapy.  I had to draw on every piece of yoga teaching I had ever been exposed to in order to gain enough mobility to initiate the next repair surgery.  Yoga Philosophy and pranayama were most instrumental in helping me to deal with the discomfort of healing, the pain of physical therapy, and finding the discipline to continue.  Employing my yoga asana knowledge helped me to gain mobility and help myself at home.  

     The ACL repair was the third procedure in as many months; the surgical repairs bookended a forced manipulation under anesthesia to break apart all my scar tissue.  I spent six months in physical therapy, with a prescription to pain meds to help with the pain. During this six months, I developed a physical dependence to the meds. Again, showing up on my mat, and implementing all I had learned, helped me move past that addiction and emerge with new perspective.