Solid yoga should be accessible beyond the yoga studio and into fitness facilities.  Yoga has the potential to be a deeply reverent practice or just simply an integral component to a fitness regime.  I have experienced physical fitness/liberation to be the portal to a happy mind and heart.

I am a dedicated Yogi of many years, a mother of three, wife,  classical flutist/music enthusiast,  free spirited traveler, and plant lover.

I began my training in Toronto with Michael Stone (Ashtanga), Michael Siddal (Anusara), and Judith Hansen Lasiter (restorative). After over 700 hours of study and teacher training I have placed my heart deep in the highly refined practice of Anusara Yoga.

Over the past four years I have studied the elegant practice of Anusara Yoga in depth and I am currently a student of the Shaiva Tradition, Neelakantha Meditation and studying with Karen Sprute Francovich (Idaho) and Paal Muller-Ortega (California).

I follow a yoga practice that encourages a soft opening to grace, refined principals of alignment and human intrinsic goodness. "I have faith that regular yoga practice ultimately has the potential to illuminate the greatest creative experience of a human life – at any age."

I am inspired by the vast and intense athletic community in Kelowna and believe in the benefit of yoga for ultimate athletic performance and overall wellness. I am also inspired by the artist and cultivation of a yoga practice to ride a direct current/pathway to freedom and creativity. 

I enjoy and continue to study with Desiree Rumbaugh, Ross Rayburn, the local Anusara Kula, as well as my teachers Karen Sprute Francovich of Idaho.

• CPR First Aid

• Yoga Teacher Training

• University Education

• Hiked the full depth of the Grand Canyon and Abel Tasman Trek, New Zealand
• Completed a triathlon
• Extensive World Travel

• Continue Studies and Practice in Neelakanta Meditation

• Continue Philosophy studies in Tantra-Kashmir Shaivism

• Dance more, hike more, build stronger muscles

• Return to a small amount of work in the Addiction Recovery field - teaching Yoga this time.

• Continue to cook dinner  at Inn From The Cold.

• Create something with clay.

• Make the most incredible, memorable, expansive transition from 39 to 40 years of age!

• Continue Studies in Yoga Therapeutics

"And because it is all my fractures that brought my greatest light"  - Leonard Cohen

"Ring the bells that still can ring, forget you perfect offering, there is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how light gets in" - Leonard Cohen

Also here are a few of my favorite words: Profound, bliss, inquiry, exquisite, remembrance, current, unbounded, light-weaver, churning, seed, burning, conceal, matrix, sweet taste, essence, conscious, vibratory, mantra, intimate, ignite, beloved, unfoldment, investigation, authentic, bow, systematic, radiance, subtle, transmission, pulsation, space, encodement, locate, luster, bondage. 

Back packing the south pacific en route to New Zealand and Australia.....and the romance that unfolded with my now husband!

An incredible pipe organ concert in a Montreal Cathedral perched on a large hill overlooking the whole city. (after pushing my twins in a stroller for 12 km - they finally fell asleep).

And....Every difficult challenge I have overcome.