Continuing Education Programs for Yoga Teachers

My yoga journey began when I was in high school. I was finishing up my athletic career and was looking for a new way to stay fit. I quickly became a hot yoga fanatic and was always looking to master challenging arm balances and inversions. It wasn’t until I began and completed my 200-Hour RYT with Petra Lehman-Brauer at Create Power Yoga in 2016 that I found more surrender in my yoga practice. Upon graduating I made my mark as a strong Power Yoga teacher while still playing with creative sequencing in my classes.

I continued my yoga education through several Hands-on Assisting Trainings and have found great reward helping those who wish to receive guidance through physical touch. In addition, I completed my 300-Hour RYT with Down Under School of Yoga with Natasha Rizopoulos as my lead trainer in December of 2020. During this training, I worked to define my voice as a teacher and dive deeper into anatomy, breath work, sequencing, and yoga theory.

Before I am a teacher I am always a student, and I believe that there is always room to grow and learn.  In September 2021, I began an Ashtanga practice with Randy Aromando. Although I have fallen in and out of an Ashtanga practice in previous years, Randy taught me dedication to the method. This practice has taken me deeper into my yoga studies and greatly inspires my current teaching. I am now working to complete a 300-Hour RYT Training at Yoga East with Kimberly Dahlmann.

My yoga practice began as part of my college dance program. I discovered quickly that yoga asana was helping to relieve pain from old injuries and dysfunction movement patterns created through years of dance. In addition, it helped calm my anxiety and need-for-control. Hooked, I completed my teacher training in 2013 with Deborah Williamson of Wild Abundant Life.

My career before yoga focused on community-building as a programming director for non-profits, and I saw in a yoga studio the opportunity to build connection and community within a yoga practice. When my husband Billy and I created Create Power Yoga, my mission was to create a community that would have a life of its own, in and out of yoga classes. My focus in my classes, and in running my business, is for students to feel safe, connected, welcomed, and powerful.

In 2019 I continued my yoga education with an emphasis on functional movement and embodiment with Stacy Dockins of The Yoga Project, where I studied and received my 500 RYT certification (despite some Covid hiccups!). My teaching is informed by my wide range of experience in schools, studio classes, teacher trainings, and private clients. I holds additional certifications in trauma-sensitive yoga; hands-on assisting, and facial body work, all of which inform each other and help me see students holistically. I have been training teachers since 2015.

I am dedicated to educating incredible teachers, well-versed in a variety of yoga topics with a focus on relating yoga practice and teaching to life outside a studio. My curriculum is supplemented with lessons and work in communication skills, learning styles, the mental and physical effects of experiences on the body, evidence-based information, and other accumulated knowledge.