Introduction: Hey babes! My name is Lindsay and I’m honored to share my story with you - here, on the mat, or in person. I’m a teacher, practitioner, and student of yoga in the raddest and baddest, fast-growing city - Austin, Texas.
My first experience with yoga was 12 years ago at a Bikrim studio in Old Town, Scottsdale. I was an undergrad at ASU and understood yoga as some hip, California hippie thing - which felt and sounded so cool to a PNW gal like me. At the time, I thought Bikrim was the way to yoga so I pushed myself through 90 minutes of near-heat exhaustion and ignored the questionable cleanliness of that berber carpet - why? Because yoga.
In 2010 I moved from Phoenix to Austin, and while searching my new city for a place to tree-pose in 100+ degrees, I found a tiny yoga house offering something I’d never heard of before: vinyasa. Breath to movement, freedom of expression - the ballerina in me was seen. I fell in love with the flow and ten years later, I’m still an eager student.
I completed my first 200 hour certification in June of 2019, studying alignment vinyasa under Gioconda Parker. I returned as her student that fall, completing a second 200 hour program in the lunar arts of yin + restorative + yoga nidra. In February 2022, I became RYT500 certified after graduating from Gioconda's 300 hour Yoga + Leadership program through YTX, which focused on yogic philosophy and nervous system regulation through somatic awareness + bodywork. My personal roots with yoga are through the lens of trauma and I’ve dedicated my education to understanding this mind + body link; I have an intimate relationship with recovery and draw inspiration from my own experience. If I can find healing through the medium of yoga, others can too - and this is why I teach.
When I’m not on the mat, I’m somewhere in nature - or nestled in a nook, with my nose in a book. A voracious reader and self-designated bibliophile, literature lights me on fire. I’m a writer by trade and an author by profession - a mom, a girlfriend, aspiring cosmologist, music enthusiast, and amateur chef.
