I teach yoga-based movement and bodyweight fitness. I have a strong focus on anatomy and kinesiology.

I started practicing yoga while living in New York City. I was working a stressful office job and a retail job on the weekends, was unused to the frenetic pace of the city, and was devastatingly floored by the winter. Yoga made me feel better. Beyond the obvious benefits to my body, I felt a profound and much-needed sense of clarity after each class.

I came to yoga after more than a decade of study of Chinese martial arts (Yang family tai chi chuan and choy li fut kung fu), which gave me a nice foundation in the awareness and use of my body on which to build. I have been extremely lucky to study with superb teachers, even well before I had any idea what to be looking for.

In all of my classes, I like hard work and humor, but I teach two different (though complementary) styles of classes. I have had many students who have attended classes of both varieties.

More Strenuous Classes

These classes are generally vigorous, with a varying degree of challenge based on what we’re working on, but always with an expectation of hard work. I like to build on individual actions that add together into more-challenging combinations (like a fancy pose!), so beginner students or folks looking to not be quite so absurd can work safely and to an appropriate level of challenge, while more advanced students can add in the final, often ridiculously-hard culmination.

Less Strenuous Classes

These classes, while still challenging, move at a slower pace and have less-absurdly-athletic foci than the more-strenuous classes. Building on my many years of teaching adapted classes for aging and injured bodies, these classes work well for individuals who still enjoy rigorous, alignment-based yoga but, for any reason, want a slower pace, including:

-aging bodies
-bodies with injuries
-bodies new to yoga
-cross-training athletes looking for active recovery
-advanced students with excellent engagement skills