Who I Am and Why I Teach This Work

 In 2019, my body stopped me in my tracks.
I had just completed a 2-year Iyengar Yoga Teacher Education program in New York   a serious, deeply technical training that required years of prior study with certified Iyengar teachers before even being accepted.
I was preparing for my final teaching and written exams when my back gave out. The pain was sharp, the nerve damage real, and suddenly, even my left foot wouldn’t move the way it used to.

Doctors said: You need surgery.
Something in me said: Wait.

After years of helping others move with awareness, I was suddenly unable to trust my own body. So I did something I hadn’t done before   I began to really listen. I turned away from urgency and toward curiosity.

With time, chiropractic care, traction therapy, and an intuitive, self-guided practice of movement and breath, my body began to heal   without surgery.
It was long, slow, humbling work. But it changed everything I understood about the body, resilience, and what it truly means to “practice.”

The hardest part wasn’t the pain. It was the doubt.
The fear that maybe I had lost what made me a teacher. The realization that even with all my study, I had missed the small whispers of imbalance my body had been sending for years.
Healing required a different kind of strength   one rooted in presence, not perfection.

 A few months later, another message came   this time not from my back, but from my hormones. My menstrual cycle stopped.
Blood tests showed high prolactin levels, a marker of chronic stress. I had thought I was calm   I taught yoga and Pilates, I meditated, I lived quietly.
But my nervous system told another story.

That’s when I found my way to the breath   truly found it.

Through my studies with Robin Rothenberg (“Restore Your Prana”), I learned that functional breathing is far more than a mechanical act. It’s the key to restoring balance   between doing and being, body and mind, control and surrender.
It was through this education that I realized how many dysfunctional breathing patterns I had developed over the years   patterns that reflected deeper emotional imbalances.

This discovery led me also to psychedelic and EMDR-therapy, where I began to heal old wounds and integrate everything I had learned about mind, breath, and nervous system regulation.
It wasn’t just knowledge that changed me   it was the lived experience of breathing my way back into wholeness.

Breath became my medicine. My mirror. My way home.

 Before all of this, there was silence.
For over 20 years, I have practiced meditation and spiritual inquiry, spending months at a time in India exploring different meditation techniques, and self-inquiry.

I sat in satsang with an enlightened teacher for weeks on end   in stillness, in silence, in deep presence.
Those experiences shaped me as much as any formal study. They taught me humility, patience, and what it means to simply be.

That quiet awareness has become the foundation of everything I teach today.
Because no matter how refined the method   yoga, Pilates, or breathwork   it all begins and ends in the clarity of stillness.

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That quiet awareness is now the foundation of all my teaching. Whether through Pilates, yoga, or breathwork, every practice starts and ends in the same space of inner stillness and clarity.

 Healing didn’t make me perfect; it made me honest.

Today, I teach what I live: a whole-body, whole-breath, whole-awareness approach to well-being.
My work blends the structure of Pilates, the precision of Iyengar-inspired movement, the depth of functional breathwork, and the gentleness of meditation.

Whether we meet online or in person, my focus is to help you listen to your body the way I learned to listen to mine.
We’ll move to restore alignment, breathe to regulate the nervous system, and cultivate a trust in the body’s quiet intelligence.

Because true strength isn’t about how much you can push   it’s about how softly you can return to yourself.

 If you’re here, something in you is seeking harmony   maybe with your body, your breath, or your own rhythm of being.
I can’t promise a quick fix.
But I can offer a space of patience, honesty, and depth.

Together, we’ll rediscover movement that feels natural, breath that feels alive, and presence that feels like home.

Let’s begin where you are.