about me

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After graduating from art school, I met and fell in love with the man who would later become my husband. As a true romantic, I have always known that my life would be a love story. When I met Rob, I knew the instant I saw him that he was mine and I was his.

We got married in 2020 in a secluded forest with only our most beloved people and mother nature to witness our sacred vows. After 8 years together, we are still so grateful that we found each other.

When I began my journey with yoga, I had just stared college as a painting and drawing student at a tiny atelier style art-school. I had always been drawn to yoga and because I was naturally flexible it seemed like a good fit for my body. Through-out my college years, yoga helped me manage my stress levels and showed me how to be present in my body, at a time when I didn’t really know how critical that was. After I graduated from Laguna College of Art + Design in 2015 with a BFA in Painting and Drawing, I did my 200 hr Empowered Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training with Jamie Hansen in San Clemente, CA in 2016.

My experience in yoga teacher training wasn’t just a deep dive into yoga poses and philosophy, it started me on a life-long pursuit of self study and self compassion.

When I decided to stop taking hormonal birth control and start tracking my natural cycle, everything changed for me. For the first time in my life I began to feel real and passionate anger, an emotion I hadn’t felt since adolescence.

Suddenly for about one week of the month, there was fire raging inside me that was never there before. Then the next week I was bleeding and totally exhausted. I quickly realized that living in my old ways would be impossible during my moontime, so I began to rest deeper than I ever had before. After my week of rest came high levels of energy and excitement for new projects and ideas. The following week would come with even more energy, confidence and desire. Then it would start all over again.

I was experiencing my inner seasons for the first time, without even knowing what they were. So I poured myself into research about our cycles and that took me on a self-discovery and womb healing journey that has completely changed my life. Now I am sharing everything I learned on that journey with you through my yoga and coaching programs.

After 2 + years of experiencing my natural cycle, I have found a beautiful balance between my inner seasons, enjoying each for what it brings to me. You can read more about the inner seasons here.

I realized that during the 10 years I was on birth control, my life force energy, my prana, my full spectrum of human-ness, was being muted.

I lived most days the same way, overexerting myself to try to keep up with the masculine energies that run the patriarchal world we live in. I measured my value based on my physical achievements and I was never satisfied. I was, by all measures, fitting in perfectly to what society wanted from me. I was doing and being everything to everyone, without much thought for myself. And the funny part is that I thought I knew who I was. Turns out, I only knew who the world wanted me to be.

This journey of connecting to my cycle and working towards a balanced life where I can live in harmony with my body and feel deeply connected to mother nature is my life’s work.

I know it deep in my bones, and yet there are so many things I still don’t know. I will never claim to have answers, only experiences and feelings that I am happy to share so we may all connect more to ourselves and each other. This is the community I am hoping to create here. A space of honest story telling without the “highlight reels” that make us compare and feel lesser than others. I want to feel more connected to my people, and that only happens when we allow ourselves to be seen in our wholeness. I hope this becomes a place where each of you can show up as your full self and feel seen and heard. That would be my greatest wish.