Awakening Curiosity Through Self Inquiry
The Subtle Body
Movement & Stability
Focused Concentration
Sacred Texts
Yoga Therapy
Teacher Trainings, Workshops, Education
In my work as an educator, yoga therapist, and writer, I aspire to cultivate the conditions within my students and my community that inspire focused self-inquiry and the ability to turn toward the complex. I aim to help people recognize an internal wholeness of heart and spirit that is inclusive of all distinct parts, and to move forward into life with curiosity, resilience, and the map of the heartbeat, which expands and contracts, evaporates and condenses, breathes in and out.
I teach teachers and students. My role as a facilitator of physical, spiritual, and emotional health includes educating individuals on the topics of self-inquiry, spiritual crisis, goddess traditions, and sacred traditional texts across historic and geographical timelines, as well as providing specific embodied practice techniques based in a deep understanding of sacred scripture, subtle body anatomy, and cutting edge modern movement science. In partnership with my students, I help open the doors that shine the dynamic, self-reflexive truth of the present moment with depth and reverence into the layers of the sacred Self.
Credentials:
I have been instrumental in the creation and leadership of Yoga Soup’s 200 and 300 Hour Teacher Trainings, am E-RYT 500, YACEP (I teach continuing education), C-IAYT (certified Yoga Therapist), Pilates certified, and I hold a Masters degree in Nutrition (MSNE). I have over 25 years of study with world class teachers in several schools of yoga, including Yoga Therapy, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa Krama with Srivatsa Ramaswami, modern flow blends. I have studied with many beloved meditation, Advaita, non-dual Tantra, kundalini-Shakti, and self-inquiry teachers, particularly Rupert Spira, the late Bonnie Greenwell, the late Sally Kempton, Sravana Borkataky-Varma, and other leading scholars in Tantra.
For information on my ongoing trainings, see TheEmbodiedPathYoga.com
I believe strongly in educating students about Kundalini energy (not to be confused with the system of yoga in the same name). The poses of Yoga are designed to wake up our subtle body, and yet when this happens- as it inevitably does for many people- we often find ourselves without a compass or a safe community. I offer support and education.
This site will offer writings and explorations on topics related to the body, the breath, the subtle energies, non-dual literature and self-inquiry, Kundalini energy, & meditation techniques in order to facilitate understanding and conversation around these complex and beautiful topics.
About the Goddess
The Feminine Divine:
We have been so focused on the divine masculine that we have many words in the English language to describe the sacred masculine: light of consciousness, enlightenment, awareness. The divine feminine does not have this rich resource of language. We simply have not developed the same roster of words for Her. I strongly believe in creating the language, the words and concepts, that describe her specifically. “Archetype” just won’t do: it’s another concept about Her (created by men) that keeps her in a box. Instead use these words: She is curiosity. She is the opposites of our experience. She is the complex. She is vibration.
As the feminine divine, all of life becomes a mirror for the heart. I believe that these mirrors are everywhere, in all thought, actions, sensations, and emotional responses. The curiosity that reflects BACK the light of awareness is her. The ability to hold great sadness and great joy, or deep stillness and agitation, or singularity and wild variety- simultaneously. The ability to be these opposites all at the same time. She is the pulse of everything, and is therefore simply everything. In this play of the feminine divine we shine that mirror upon ourselves. We are here to immerse into the whole, complete, overflowing core of the heart.
