My yoga practice began over 30 years ago in San Francisco, California and yoga’s teachings form the core of who I am and who I aspire to be. My yoga and meditation offerings are designed to reveal and support an embodied experience of freedom, playfulness and possibility, and are inspired by the 8-fold path attributed to Patanjali, a diversity of spiritual practices and perspectives, and all I continue to learn from my students, my teachers, and Mother Nature.
I share these practices that I love with reverence and joy.
In addition to being a yoga student and teacher, I am a wife and doting (dog) mom, proud aunt and godmother, nature lover, cheese enthusiast, spiritual seeker, and hammock napper. I am a 500 hour Yoga Alliance-certified Yoga Teacher and completed my 200 hour training in Chicago, Illinois with teachers Erica Merrill (student of Brian Kest and others) and Chrissy Gonzalez (student of Joan Hyman and others), and my 300 hour training with Jason Crandell. I am committed to ensuring that beginner yoga students find a practice that welcomes and supports them and completed an 18-hour course devoted specifically to teaching new yoga students. I am also a certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide with the Association for Nature and Forest Therapy and completed Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Training as well. 2026 is my sixth year teaching yoga in the Indiana Dunes National Park and I also lead forest therapy walks throughout the park. I offer yoga classes, private lessons and forest therapy walks in and around NW Indiana and Chicago. My family and I live surrounded by the Indiana Dunes National Park and love nurturing ourselves in nature’s playground all year long.
After Sunset Yoga classes each week, students are invited to linger at our community potlucks for conversation and connection with new and old friends!
“To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else…even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.” His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Forest Therapy is a playful and powerful way to nurture ourselves in nature.