FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Always! Currently, I am enrolled in a 300hr advanced teacher training which will take me a year to complete. I also practice yoga asana 2X the amount that I teach so that I am constantly a student learning and growing as a practitioner. And I am always reading a new yoga-related book. Self-study is what makes me a better teacher.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
When I found yoga, I was an angry and sad young woman - but I had no idea! I was also at a stage in my life where I wasn't living healthy - no physical activity, poor diet and constant partying. I felt trapped in a life and body that I didn't want and had lost hope in making both better. Yoga changed everything. I loved the physical work and, naturally, that began to transform my body - but it also caused mental transformation. I started to make better choices by eating healthy and cutting out partying. I learned to love myself and found peace with the things I could not control. Because of my practice I feel I have a purpose and that makes me feel happy and whole. It is because of this incredible transformation that I became inspired to teach the practice. My greatest hope is to share the love and happiness I found in this practice with every and anyone willing to listen!
- What questions should customers think through before talking to professionals about their project?
I feel that a lot of people who have never tried yoga have a mentality that yoga is not accessible to everyone. A lot of new students tell me that they are worried they won't be "good" at yoga or say that it took them a long time to want to start their practice because they weren't "flexible enough." What I want people to know is that yoga is about YOU and where YOU are at. There is no "good" or "bad" yoga - there is just yoga. And to the latter argument, you will become more flexible if you practice yoga! :)