Welcome to my website

Your task is not to seek love, 

but merely to seek 

and find all the barriers 

within yourself 

that you have built against it.

            -Rumi

Background

I started writing my first novel in the summer before fourth grade. I remember it because it was the first project of my life that totally absorbed me. It was about a little girl who died in Germany in the first world war. She went to heaven and was given the choice to return to be human again. Because she had died so painfully, she didn’t want to be human. She was afraid.

“Can’t I go back and live in the sea instead?” she asked. “That way I will never feel burns on my body. The water will always be cool.”

She was granted her wish but was warned that she would not be able to forget about her previous life until she was human again and then the memories would stay until she turned five in that lifetime. She lived her next life as a dolphin. Her name was Zara and the novel for the most part is about her adventures as a dolphin but she still had glimpses of when she was hurt in the war and of her previous family. She dies a natural death in that story and is born at the end of that novel. I was so proud of writing all of those stories. I showed it to a Sunday school teacher, who didn’t like it at all . She actually put me out in the hall. She was outraged and strongly dissuaded me from writing that story any longer.

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The gentle breezes of dusk and dawn

have secrets to tell you.

Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask

for what you truly want.

Don’t go back to sleep.

People pass back and forth

across the threshold

between the two worlds.

That door is round and open.

Don’t go back to sleep. ---Rumi

Yoga Experience and Schedule

A life of martial arts training helped me appreciate the benefits of a creative yet powerful Vinyasa flow and the quiet meditation of a Yin inspired yoga flow.  I found that yoga healed my body, mind and spirit during a successful fight with breast cancer. Yoga works in harmony with other physical and mental activities to bring inner peace, focus and strength.

Yoga is a wonderful way to pause the busy demands of everyday life.  It is a way to stay in touch with your spirit, your heart, and stay connected with your body. An hour of serenity and bliss within a day promotes peace of mind.

Proven physical benefits of yoga are plentiful. The slower mindful breathing tends to reduce stress. Asana poses decrease lactic acid in muscles to help reduce joint pain. A regular practice over time will increase arm strength, muscle tone, improve posture, increase flexibility, improve focus, increase metabolism, help digestion and increase lung capacity. But the real gift of Yoga is the calming of mind, body, and spirit by connecting breath and movement..

I received my certification from Amalam School of Yoga and I am a member of Yoga Alliance. I’ve studied advanced Yin under Biff Mithoefer  I’ve taught over two thousand hours of classes, combining breath, movement, loving kindness and insight; I’ve seen yoga bring balance between work and life for so many people. I teach classes with an emphasis on internal awareness and self-acceptance.  I believe you can change your shape, your outlook, your experiences, by accepting yourself just the way you are, then with curiousity, rediscovering, and building from there.

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It may be that

when we no longer know

what to do,

we have come our real work

and that when we no longer know

which way to go,

we have come to our real journey.

/  Wendell Berry  /