In many ways, most of my adult life has been a love affair with movement and how the human form embodies motion and stillness in a variety of mediums.  Specifically, my studies and training have focused around the nuance and rhythms of street dance as an art form, a culture, and a way of connecting to profound wisdom.  Following an injury in 2004, I began studying and practicing yoga asana as it applied structurally, energetically, and therapeutically to the body.  Over time, I have found clear comparisons and connections in these different practices and continue to be intrigued and inspired by the function, form, health and spirit of human movement.  My teaching weaves clear instruction with the metronome of breath , and I aim to guide my students toward a sense of their own structure and rhythm in dialogue with space, gravity and the alignment of action.  My current studies continue into break[dance] as a movement, and buddhism and yoga in many forms.  I am currently working on my first solo dance work to be performed in over six years.

Prior and Current Studies include:

• BFA in Dance Choreography and Pedagogy
• Over 100 hours in Therapeutic and Restorative Yoga
• Over 500 hours in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Anusara, and other styles of Hatha Yoga
• Studies with top teachers including Raphael Xavier [somatics and Breaking], Laurel Hodory, Schuyler Grant, Doug Keller, Jillian Pransky, Carrie Owerko, and John Friend
• Over 100 hours studying various forms of buddhist and other schools of meditation and philosophy.