About me

Denizens of BC may recognize the stunning blue water on the right as being one of Joffre Lakes (Pipi7iyekw, in the local language of the Lilwat Nation)... right around the corner from Pemberton on the Sea-to-Sky corridor in the Coast Mountains. The Lilwat people have stewarded this land for thousands of years, and I am profoundly grateful to call this mountain paradise home.

Wonder, delight, awe... Adbhuta Rasa, the "Nectar of Amazement..." this has been at the heart of my practice and my continued studies, right from the beginning. In fact, it is the reason I found yoga at all... I remember going to the circus when I was twelve years old and rushing to the library to find a book to learn how to be like them. Instead, I found Vanda Scaravelli's book, "Awakening the Spine," and was forever changed. I soon after met my first yoga teacher, Beverly Rice, taught in the Ashtanga method (though who sharing the love of "wonderment"), and the rest is history.

My perspective in yoga is a synthesis of the systems of Ashtanga Vinyasa and Anusara. Like in all things, putting one's inquiry right in the middle of apparently opposing ideas (such as two different schools of yoga) has been exceedingly rich and is where I continue to develop... and, of course, the source of endless confusion, that simply serves as encouragement to keep practicing.

Beyond asana, I am student of many interrelated disciplines. My main sadhana - daily practice - is recitation of the Veda, which I am continuing to learn in my ongoing studies with Shantala Sriramaiah in the Krishna Yajur Veda tradition. I am also an avid student of Ayurveda and Jyotisha - two systems that help me see that the viewpoint espoused by the yoga tradition is meant to be extended to all life, all experience, all being.

The Indic Traditions have no end, but by studying with a broad viewpoint, I feel my inspiration stretched in all directions... From cultivating more skill and acute awareness for the practical, imminent, and relative, and then also having a greater appreciation for seeing all reality as part of an interconnected Whole. This is the ground for endless, infinite wonder, and is the perspective I strive to teach from.