My first yoga class was in the early spring of 1999, at an Iyengar Yoga studio in Crested Butte, Colorado, where an old friend of mine had invited me up for a short stay in the beautiful mountains. Ironically, I had just returned from India where I had been backpacking around for several months, and where I had not taken even one yoga class! Looking back I like to think that my time in India, which had simply begun as an adventure, initiated me upon a path I tread more fully and with ever increasing wonderment and awareness each day.
I began my practice at the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, where I had the great fortune to set the foundation of my practice in the Ashtanga Yoga of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, and where I was blessed with fantastic teachers deeply rooted in their lineage, powerfully adept in their abilities, and profoundly knowledgeable in their practice. I am grateful to this day for those first foundational lessons, and have measured the efficacy of my own teaching capacity by that of my first teachers' abilities to "transmit" as well as instruct.
I have since practiced in many paths of yoga, from the fitness-oriented power and hot yoga made popular by the students of Bishnu Ghosh, to the sublime and charasmatic path of Bhakti Yoga, singing and chanting ecstatically the glory of Supreme Conciousness in the celebration of Its diversity of form and name.
Currently I study with Christina Sell, a certified Anusara Yoga teacher in Austin Texas, where I work steadily and lovingly in the method of Anusara Yoga. I believe that the spirit of yoga calls upon the True Teacher that dwells within each and every one of us to awaken and live fully our embodiment, to see clearly our reflections, and to dwell in the splendor of recognition of who we truly are.
