I grew up in Reno, Nevada USA and spent most of my youth skiing in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Lake Tahoe. When I was seventeen, I began to practice hatha yoga to strengthen and heal my knees from competitive skiing. Five years later in 2000, I saw an Ashtanga yoga demonstration while studying at the University of Oregon, and from that point on, I began to practice Ashtanga yoga as much as I could and I haven’t stopped since.

I began learning from Nancy Gilgoff, Christine Hoar and Randa Chehab. My interest to study more led me to Mysore to study with Sri K Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Jois in 2008 and finally, to my beloved teachers David Garrigues and Dena Kingsberg. I also found a love for Sanskrit and Vedic chanting and began studying with David Miliotis at Ashtanga Yoga Orange County.

I practiced for eight years before I began to teach in the Mysore method. From 2008-2011 I founded Ashtanga Yoga Boise in Idaho, USA where I learned how to manage, own and operate a studio and run a successful mysore programme.

From 2011-2012 I moved to Philadelphia to study and assist David Garrigues, assist him with the opening of the Ashtanga Yoga School of Philadelphia, and teach while he was traveling. 

In 2012 I moved to Scotland where I began a Mysore programme in Aberdeen at Love Yoga; offered workshops in Glasgow, retreats at Ecoyoga Scotland and later became the Morning Mysore Director at Meadowlark Yoga from 2014-2019. I am a Senior Yoga Teacher registered with Yoga Alliance. I teach workshops throughout Scotland and Ireland and offer retreats in Spain and Italy.

David Garrigues has taught me the third series of practice and I am currently working on the fourth series in which I am learning from both David and Dena Kingsberg. My daily yoga sutra practice keeps me balanced and at ease to quiet the intensity of the physical practice: also motherhood requires me to have a still seated practice so chanting and meditation have become just as important as the physical practice. 

I have two sons, Dashiel, born in 2014 and Calvin, born in 2019. Returning to advanced practice after two children has been more than a challenge but a rewarding discovery of self which requires investigation on and off the mat. I am experienced and capable of helping mothers adapt their practices while pregnant and will guide mothers after birth in a practical post practice to get their bodies safely back into traditional ashtanga yoga practice.

Becoming a mother has made me appreciate the practice of ashtanga yoga even more: I am forever grateful for Guruji's teachings for constantly making me investigate my higher self; it is through daily practice that I learn how to care for others in the most sincere way and teach in this same spirit.

When I am not on mat chanting or practicing, I am playing with my sons, climbing or studying Sanskrit.