Yoga for Stress Relief

I’m often asked this question: How did you start teaching yoga?

To make a long story short: it all started with my own experience as a yoga student and clinical social worker. I found that I was able to calm my mind, feel better in and about my body, and experience greater ease and contentment in my life. As a clinical social worker (i.e.- therapist), I desired to help my clients experience those same types of benefits in a way beyond the scope of traditional psychotherapy. So when I enrolled in a yoga teacher training (YTT) in 2009, it was with the intention of learning how to share techniques with my therapy clients that would offer them tangible results to help them feel better, both mentally and physically. Little did I know that I would feel the instinctual pull to teach yoga right away. After transitioning from a decade-long career of facilitating healing in a traditional therapy setting to supporting clients in feeling greater freedom and ease in their minds and bodies through private Yoga and Thai Yoga therapy—and later co-creating a YTT to educate prospective teachers—I stumbled quite accidentally into life coaching. I found coaching to be one of the most powerful and transformative experiences of my life. Again, the call to offer a deeper, more thorough level of service to my clients and community beckoned, and I enrolled in a metamorphic life coach training. Now, as coach, I have the privilege of collaborating with my clients to create life-altering, sustaining change in their lives.

Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT-500)
Professional Life Coach
Advanced Certified Thai Yoga Therapy Practitioner
Co-Director, Bella Vita Yoga Teacher Training
Co-Founder, Explore & Expand Retreats