FrogLotusYoga

My first taste of yoga came through ballet training as a four, five and six year old. We were given hatha asanas as warm up exercises to calm a rambunctious room of girls and prepare for our leaping. Throughout my adolescence, living in a house with eight siblings, I found solace and peace in my yogic escapes. The connection between emotions, stress and stretch was apparent. Over the years I visited many yoga schools and centers across the country and world. In the summer of 2001 I found myself in a intensive month long yoga experience at the Kripalu Yoga Institute in Lenox, MA. In early 2003 I had the opportunity to travel extensively in India. However it was not until my discovery of FLY in the winter of 2003 that I understood the connection between what I had been practicing all those years and the current day yoga. FLY offered a setting where people from all walks of life could come together in the most beautiful studio I had ever visited.

As a photographer running a hectic studio at a large resort on Mackinac Island, MI; I found my solace once again practicing my yoga in the garden, and on the shores of lake Superior and Huron. Returning to FLY in early 2005, I trained with Jacqueline and was invited to stay on and teach. Unbeknownst to me, I quit my “career” job and moved permanently to North Adams and began a busy schedule of teaching yoga and baking. I now live in New York state with my husband and daughter in a 200 year old house we restored. Apart from teaching yoga I am a portrait photographer and make things from clay.

Over the years I have studied under the yoga flavors of Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anasara, Kripalu, Sivananda and Jivamukti. I have come again and again to the understanding of the different disciplines as different flavors of the one yoga of movement. There are many teachers that I could list for their part in my yogic education but I have found true inspiration just as often from unknown teachers as from those in high regard. I believe yoga to be about people and their travels in this world. I am honored and humbled to be able to lead sessions in the busy lives of others. I bring to you my true dedication and love for the practice of this fine art.