Both my formal and informal training in life has led me to where I am today… a seeker of truth, a teacher and healer.  More accurately, life's venue has enabled me to consider myself a lifelong student, my teachings deriving from the wonderful people I have been fortunate enough  to encounter and help.  It is through my participation and role here at Tanglefoot Lodge that I wish continue this journey of teaching and learning, if only by providing a warm & peaceful place where people may heal, learn and relax.   Through my younger years my love for the arts, music, writing and athletics has kept me connected to my quest for inner peace, and  eventually led me to the exploration of what life is and what it means to be human.   Though I have practiced Yoga for over 10 years, it is in the past three years that I have fully integrated yoga into my life and started truly exploring the connection of Yoga and life itself. 

My most influential training comes from 3 main sources. First, an intense Yoga Teachers Training Course, taken here at Tanglefoot Lodge with my lifetime teacher Russ Hazard. Second, is my training as a Thai Yoga Massage Therapist, which helped me understand the process of assisting people through the physical body. Third, is Vipassana Meditation, which is a major influence in my own life and in the teachings here at the lodge. 

I draw my inspiration from my teachers, music, books and the vast world of possibilities, but most importantly from my children, who are my greatest teachers. This journey is for them.  I am deeply dedicated to my practice and continue to study the many paths of Yoga, with focus on cognitive studies, Vipassana Meditation and Dream Yoga.  These experiences have opened my consciousness allowing me to start experiencing  life to its fullest…this is the changing factor in my life.  I teach and practice Yoga because it reminds me to live with love and truth and helps me continue experiencing and understanding the greater purpose of life in order to be the change that we seek to be.