YOGA IS LIBERATION IS LOVE
It begins with the body. Our bodies house the spirit, respond to our environment, hold our knowledge and joy and pain. In our aliveness, we are first and foremost embodied beings whose true nature is presence. To be is our inherent right. Beneath imprints of trauma, egoic impressions of self/other, and colonial-capitalist constructions, there coruscates this truth. Yoga is the liberation of the mind from these internalizations to unite with our essential truth, which doesn’t exist in some far off dimension, but resides right here, within us and with the earth.
Like the earth, we are abundant and multitudinous. Like the earth, we suffer under manmade systems of oppression and extraction. Liberation is not meant to be solely an individual pursuit. Our bodies form a collective. We are always in relationship with one another and all things through the pulse of life. Now is the time of liberation. Now is the time to decolonize and transmute our inner worlds, to experience our inherent presence, to tune into the thread that connects us—so that we may imagine and co-create the world we wish to see.
About
I enjoy sharing a dynamic practice that builds strength, heightens awareness, offers tools for self regulation & inquiry, brings one closer to nature, and inspires a playful creativity both on & off the mat. I love weaving in the parallels I find between art, science, activism, poetry, narrative, and yoga, which I hope encourages practitioners to think — not just with the mind, but with the entirety of the being.
I have been teaching yoga for 6 years and practicing for many before that. Yoga is a support for me; for one, in regulating the anxiety and depression that many of us experience as we navigate the complexities of our world. This is why I became a teacher—to share the healing benefits of yoga. I received my 200hr teaching certification at Beloved Yoga with an emphasis nondualist, trauma-informed, accessible teaching influenced by the Svastha Yoga tradition. A forever student, I have studied Prana Vinyasa under Shiva Rea, trauma-informed yoga, yin yoga, Ayurveda, and advanced pranayama. I am inspired by tantric philosophy, nada yoga, neuroscience, archetypes, social justice and liberation movements, herbalism, the seasons, moon phases, the elements, life & death.
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