My Roots

My yoga roots began through the therapeutic precision of Iyengar Yoga, where I learned to honor the body as sacred structure, worthy of patience, integrity, and care. That lineage gave me a lifelong reverence for alignment, technique, and the healing intelligence of practice.

My teaching later deepened through Shiva Rea and the Samudra Global School for Living Yoga—an embodied, creative, devotional evolution of Krishnamacharya’s lineage, infused with Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, and the art of full-spectrum living.

This is where movement becomes prayer, where breath becomes devotion, where sequencing becomes ceremony, and where spontaneous, soul-led expression (sahaja) is welcomed as medicine. My bhakti lineage is the heart-stream that carries it all.

Neem Karoli Baba, beloved saint and guru of Ram Dass, has been a guiding presence on my path. His teaching is simple and uncompromising: Love everyone. Serve everyone. Remember God. I return to it again and again as my compass, especially when life asks everything of me. His Hanuman devotion—humility, faith, courage, service, and love—lives at the center of what I share.

Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi, the “hugging saint”, has also been one of my great teachers in embodied compassion. Her life is a living prayer for humanity. Her message is tenderness with backbone: love, kindness, service… and her fierce insistence on joy. Keep smiling, she says. Even now. Especially now.

My Buddhist roots have been guided by Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tara Mandala, where I have practiced Tantric Buddhism and cultivated an ongoing relationship with Green Tara and the many faces of awakened feminine compassion. Tara’s mantra and presence have woven themselves into my life as a refuge—an ever-available medicine for fear, grief, and the empowerment that is unleashed through recognition with her energy.

I come from Catholic Christian beginnings, and I honor all sincere spiritual paths. At the heart of my devotion is a simple truth: there is ONE Universal Spirit, known by many names: God. Beloved. Source. Great Mystery. Divine Mother. The One. My work is for anyone who longs to return to that remembrance - through the body and heart.