For more than 25 years, I have helped people reconnect with themselves through movement, breath, stillness, mindfulness, and meaningful inquiry.

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While yoga has been my primary vehicle since 1999, what has always fascinated me is not simply the practice itself, but what becomes possible when people learn to inhabit their lives more fully.

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Again and again, I've witnessed that when we slow down, listen closely, and learn to trust our direct experience, something shifts. We become more present, more resilient, more clear about what matters, and more capable of meeting life as it is. We become more alive.

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My teaching blends yoga, breathwork, meditation, philosophy, and practical wisdom gathered through decades of study, practice, and experience. Students often describe my style as soulful, poetic, and thought-provoking. My sequencing is intelligent and creative, my instruction detailed and precise, and my classes are frequently sprinkled with humor, storytelling, and moments of unexpected insight.

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My teaching has been shaped by many influences over the years, particularly the work of Cyndi Lee, Paul Grilley, and Michael Carroll. While my approach has evolved into something uniquely my own, I remain deeply grateful for the teachers and traditions that helped illuminate the path.

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I am an E-RYT 500 and have spent decades exploring the intersections of yoga, mindfulness, anatomy, grief, resilience, contemplative practice, and personal transformation. For eighteen years, I was the founder and director of Wake Up Yoga in Philadelphia, where I trained hundreds of teachers and helped build one of the region's most respected yoga communities. Today, I continue to teach public classes, private sessions, workshops, teacher trainings, corporate programs, and retreats throughout the United States and internationally.

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Travel has been another lifelong love. Having explored more than thirty countries across five continents, I've discovered that stepping away from our familiar routines often helps us see our lives with fresh eyes. Retreats combine two things I care deeply about: creating genuine community and holding space for meaningful growth. Few things bring me greater joy than watching people arrive as strangers and leave feeling more connected—to themselves, to one another, and to what matters most.

 

My path to this work began after a near-fatal car accident at age seventeen. The experience left me with serious injuries and a long recovery. Years later, I walked into my first yoga class and discovered a practice that profoundly changed the course of my life.

 

Yoga helped me heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It helped me come back to myself.

 

That experience continues to inform everything I teach.

 

Whether through movement, breathwork, retreat experiences, or conversation, my work is rooted in a simple belief:

We are capable of living with more vitality, presence, clarity, and joy than we often realize.

 

sometimes all it takes is learning how to listen again.