04/27/2026
Join Rachel on Mondays at 5:30pm for Mixed Level Mindful Flow. Below you can learn a little more about Rachel, her influences and her inspiration.
"I started practicing yoga in 2002 while I was in college. I had been struggling with chronic pain, depression, insomnia and a whole list of other symptoms and was feeling quite desperate and lost. After I took my first class, I felt a sort of relief that was surprising and foreign. I kept going to class and after a few months, met my Ayurvedic mentor, Sonam Targee, and began to learn about and practice Ayurveda in my own life. Yoga and Ayurveda became my passion and I wanted nothing more than to share these healing practices with others. That first Yoga Studio, Shakti Yoga, in Geneseo, NY, was like a second home for me. The teachers there were like a blend of parents, friends and guides who I could trust and lean on. I am forever deeply grateful for that life changing experience and truly honored to be able to enter a community like Neighborhood Yoga and connect with you all around our common love and interest in Yoga and the healing arts.
After graduating from college with a degree in Anthropology, I decided to take my first Yoga Teacher Training. Shortly after that, I went to massage School. From there, the journey continued. By 2012 I became a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer and began offering Yoga Teacher Trainings in my previous hometown of Trumansburg, NY, where I owned a Yoga studio for 12 years. I became an Ayurvedic Practitioner in 2018 and have been offering health consultations and Jyotish (Vedic Astrology) professionally since then. I am a forever-student of life and my studies range from herbalism and local plant medicine to Non-Violent Communication and Mediation.
Ultimately I believe that life is an incredible opportunity to learn through experience and our bodies are the vessel through which the information flows. Our Yoga practice is such an awesome way to listen, to learn and to enjoy this experience. Thank you for the opportunity to have this experience with all of you! "
