YOGA & MEDITATION
I took my first yoga class in the mid 90’s: it was love at first Savasana.  That day, yoga planted a tiny seed that developed deeper roots, slowly but steadily blooming over 20 years of practice exploring various styles including  Anusara, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Kundalini. 
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I have been lucky enough to land at the feet of SO many amazing teachers:  first  studying with the iconoclastic Kelly Morris and graduating from her Conquering Lion Yoga Teacher Training with my YA certification 300 hours RYT.  I continued my yoga studies with the master alignment teacher, Christina Sell and under the mentorship of the groundbreaking somatic therapist and yoga teacher, Livia Cohen Shapiro of Applied Psychology for Yogi's. 

I've taught at studios throughout NYC including, Upper West Side Yoga, Devi Yoga Studio in Williamsburg, Bread and Yoga and Mind Body Soul Yoga in upper Manhattan, Lila Yoga and Wellness on the Bowery and more recently in Westchester at Tovami Yoga, and Radiate Yoga.  I am also currently a teacher and the Program Director at Prana Prenatal Yoga in Harrison, NY.  

I believe in a dedicated meditation practice and that yoga is a powerful tool for wholeness:  accepting and embracing all aspects of ourselves with compassion and through that work, cultivating healing, transformation, freedom, peace and joy.   

Click on link in pic below for my Teacher of the Month Interview with Bread and Yoga.
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                REIKI
I am a certified Reiki 2 practitioner, having been attuned and studied with Reiki Master Christine Hier, and with lightworker and Reiki Master Allanah Luna, all in the lineage of Mikao Usui.  It took me a while to really delve into this work of energy healing because of its seemingly esoteric and "hard to explain" nature, but once I did it powerfully opened up so many channels of understanding and connected me more deeply to myself, my practice and my teaching.  ​I'm an advocate of holistic wellness, especially the power of energy healing modalities and alternative medicine as a compliment to traditional medicine and spent a year as part of the wellness staff at Community Health Network of New York, where I taught yoga, meditation and provided my services as a Reiki practitioner in the South Bronx. 

      PRE/POST NATAL YOGA
           & BIRTHWORK
I completed my prenatal training at Lila Yoga and Wellness Center with one of NYC top prenatal teachers, Mia Borgata and with the holistic midwife and ob-gyn, Dr. Eden Fromberg.  I completed my birth work education and certification as a hollistic doula with the legendary Whapio of The Matrona.  
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         OFF THE MAT
When not practicing or teaching,  you might find me cuddling with my cat, Harrietta, reading a good book or watching Golden Girls re-runs and eating popcorn and ice cream.  On warmer Summer days you might bump into me near the ocean, basking in the feel of the sun on my skin and the sand in my toes or at a ballgame root root rooting for the home team (Let's Go Yankees!); on a crisp Fall or Spring afternoon we might cross paths walking under the magical foliage at Fort Tryon park. Or perhaps some rare and inspired moon lit evening at a local spot that plays good music, we might laugh, sing and dance our hearts out moving and shaking what our mamas gave us.
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