About Me

Like many of you, I’m an avid, lifelong student of many things. I love to immerse myself in my passions.

After leaving Microsoft to be home with my children, I reveled in family stuff, gardening and pursuing personal and spiritual growth. It was 12 years before all three of my children were in school full-time and I took the opportunity to attend yoga teacher training. Soon after, I attended an excellent pre- and postnatal yoga teacher training. Because I was also a trained doula and parent of three, I loved jumping right into prenatal and postnatal yoga teaching. My teaching schedule grew quickly and I madly studied and attended workshops while gaining experience working with Teens, Seniors, Athletes, Trauma Survivors, Beginners and All Levels with styles such as Hatha, Mindful Flow, Baptiste Power, Prenatal, Postnatal, Trauma-Sensitive, Restorative, Yoga for Athletes, Yoga for Beginners, and more.

The timing for my training and new endeavor was optimal as I had time and energy to devote to learning and practicing. But I was surprised by how challenging it was, and by how much I was relying on my past work experience to ground me in my growth. It felt like I was in a PhD program, constantly researching and studying and practicing, attending workshops, visiting classes, creating class plans, and on and on. A pressing challenge came to be how to manage the crazy amounts of information I was gathering so as to be directly useful for evolving my teaching. A 3-inch thick, 3-ring binder plus smaller portable notebooks with moveable pages became my “system.”

I loved yoga, but my goal wasn’t just to learn about it. I wanted to figure out how to be as efficient as possible in applying what I was learning so as to become the finest yoga teacher I could be.

Previously, while in numerous departments at Microsoft, in my kids’ school PTA, at a small technology start-up, and while on the board of a non-profit, I spent a fair amount of my time gathering information and input, summarizing findings, making recommendations, researching best practices, streamlining processes, improving communications… generally, I would find myself wanting to support people in doing the right thing—and in helping them spend less time doing it. So now I was using those skills and passion to help myself. I began to create teaching tools to help me organize my learning and make it easier to apply. Once I began to realize that those tools could help other teachers, they became a foundation for what today is over 1,000 pages of content and tools.