Yoga for designed for women to deepen their connection to the sacred within.
Owatonna, MN
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WELCOME!! I'M SO DELIGHTED THAT YOU’RE HERE!!
I fell in love with yoga for the first time on my living room floor through a You-Tube video. I remember moving through the various poses and thinking, "Whoa. I have a body!! Whoa. I am in my body." It was like I had lived 22 years someplace else off in a faraway land. All silliness aside, it was the first time I had experienced the depth of a mind-emotion-body connection. I felt so alive!! It was like I had woken myself up from living my life on autopilot. During Savasana, (which is the final pose of each practice where we rest and marinate in the goodness of that practice) as I laid there in complete stillness, feeling my breath move from inside my body, and my heart beat as if it had just been uncaged and set free. Tears began to flow from my eyes, and I thought to myself, "I'm home." That sense of "coming home" is what keeps me coming back to my practice. Even still when I plop myself down on the mat, I sometimes wonder where I've been all day.
I'm 29 now, and my practice has evolved into a lifestyle. I became madly passionate about all things yoga, and I set out on a journey to share the practice with others. I yearned to hold space for others to have their personal experience to discover what yoga may have in store for them, so I enrolled in a teacher training program and dove right in. It was life-changing, heart opening, full of knowledge, and well, downright scary. I had not anticipated the amount of vulnerability I would encounter. That's when I began to realize that vulnerability is a strength. An uncomfortable strength undoubtedly so, but a great one indeed. Many, many, many times throughout the training I would tell myself how I was never going to be able to make it through and be able to teach because every time it was my turn to lead the class through a pose or a sequence my mind would go blank, and I would forget everything I know. The whole reason I wanted to become a yoga teacher was so I could teach people yoga, yet I was mortified of people. I made it through though, I studied and practiced at home until my eyes couldn't take it anymore, and my throat hurt from guiding imaginary people through imaginary yoga classes. Graduation day came, and I was so proud of myself. I did it!! I am forever grateful for my teachers then and now who have made lasting impacts within my practice and my teaching.
Shortly after teacher training, I started guiding slow flow at a beautiful studio in a neighboring town. It was such a blessing because it allowed me to develop my skills and gain experience consistently. For the first few years, I would have immense anxiety before teaching every class, but by the end, it would fade away, and I would feel a sense of connection with those choosing to share their practice with me. I know in my heart the power yoga can have on a life, and if I can hold space for others to experience that power in their own lives, my purpose is fulfilled. When I'm guiding a class, it's not about me; it's about who is in front of me. I have had the joy of meeting many incredible people through the practice of yoga! It is a gift, the practice, the teaching, the transformation. Yoga continues to be a journey of healing for me. It challenges me. It softens me. It humbles me. It strengthens me. It holds me. It grows me. My practice and my teaching are a piece of me, and I have come to trust the journey of it. I am always a student first and foremost. While each of our practices is unique to us, when we come together an opening for the unfoldment of intimacy with ourselves, each other, and the world then becomes possible.
