September: at the Sun Room 2390 Mission St. @ 20th 3rd Floor

My Practice 

My Hatha yoga practice began eight years ago as a path for self awareness. Yoga helped with concentration, increase in energy, deepened breathe, and healthy weight loss. A knew fire was then stoked in my practice when I found Vinyasa Yoga, but it wasn't until a series of San Francisco bicycle accidents mixed with city-shocked nerves from the day to day that I found my love for Restorative Yoga. Now many styles of Yoga are practiced in my life on and off the mat. The most beneficial part of my practice has been devoted consistency.

Teaching  Certifications

•200hr Yoga Alliance teacher training completed at Yoga Tree in San Francisco, CA.        Teachers include Darren Main, Janet Stone, Jamie Lindsay, Elise Lorimer, Chris Thompkins, and Scott Blossom

•20hr Relax and Renew Restorative teacher training completed with Judith Lasater 

Origins

I grew up in a sunny southern California beach city called Huntington Beach, CA. Here I practiced American Kenpo for 8 years earning a rank of Brown Belt and learning my first forms of meditation and physical practice. At age 18 I moved to San Francisco for college. The city had a very close and limited horizon and my mind, as well as everything else, was not quiet. I found many things while living through my very young adulthood in San Francisco. Yoga, gratefully, was one.

How I found yoga    

I began studying yoga in 2001 at the age of 19. Along with my friend, Dominik, we began a quest to experience the highs found while on psychadelics without the taxing physical, mental, and emotional side effects received from mushrooms, E or LSD. This journey led us to the front steps of Brahmananda Ashram at Folsom and 24th where we took our first life altering Hatha Yoga class from John Marino. Now, with the guidance of all my many wonderful teachers, I have found a peace through yoga that is beyond any substance. I still enjoy the occasional trip in the woods.