Here, now.

I was 19 years old when I began practicing. (Anyone who’s been 19 years old can imagine why!) I fell in love with postural yoga practice as delivered by a 26-posture series in a very hot room, and I took my first teacher training in this style in 2009. I started teaching immediately after training.

Different forks in the road led me then to another teacher training in Anusara Yoga (2009-2010) with Christina Sell, who I continue to get on my mat with as much as I can. I’ve also studied in Iyengar Yoga and alignment-based flow.

In addition to asana practice, I’ve spent the last decade diving deeply into yoga philosophy, meditation, and mantra. As well I earned my M.A. in 2016 in Women, Gender, Spirituality & Social Justice from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

I’m a mama. I’m an intersectional feminist. I’m a yogini. I’m a wife and a daughter and a sister and an auntie and a friend. I’m always endeavoring to meet people where they are, endeavoring to help folks feel better in their bodies and in their lives, because let’s face it, life can be really hard sometimes. And I’m wild about teaching in a way that encourages critical thinking—the “why” lives right alongside the “how” for me.

I’m always delighting in the students who show up for practice—I’m always excited for them and for how much positive transformation this practice can bring to their lives. Not that doing postural practice will make our lives easier necessarily (because that’s not always possible), but it does make us capable of recognizing our goodness, our innate intelligence, and our capacity for resilience.

I reveal all of this to you here in order to place front and center my subjectivity as a teacher and give context to why I teach the way I do.

These are the teachings I’ve been given by my wise teachers (and the teachings they were given by their wise teachers); and this is the knowledge I’ve earned through experience on and off my mat.

I place it before you, now, as an offering.

Take what you can. Use what serves you. Leave the rest.

Blessings xx,

B