After a trip to Thailand where I studied Thai Massage, I moved to California in 2004, beginning my full time massage therapy practice. It was this intense physical labor that brought me to yoga three times per week for maintenance as a bodyworker. My love of anatomy as a massage therapy instructor at Everest College gave me the opportunity to marry the world of massage with yoga by teaching my students what I discovered from my own massage therapy practice. While vacationing in Central America, I was invited to teach yoga at La Paz in San Marcos, Guatemala. I knew then it was my next career calling. In 2009, I found the Cloud Nine Yoga family and dove into the 200 hour teacher training at the Long Beach Branch. I continued training with Cloud Nine and attended the Bali Bliss Intensive teacher training with the intention of being a teacher trainer myself. Since then, I attended every 200 hour teacher training at the Long Beach Branch as an assistant until I found my teaching partner and began teaching at the Lakewood Branch. We moved our training to Free Spirit Yoga in Long Beach in 2013. Advancing with the Cloud Nine family, I attended the Hawaii Ommersion 300 Hour Advanced Teacher Training as an assistant. I was excited to bring the first ADVANCED teacher trainings to Long Beach in 2015. In 2020, we moved our teacher trainings online. When Free Spirit Yoga closed, I transitioned to a strong yoga chanting practice that has changed everything I thought about what yoga is. I began to study Jyotisha, Vedic Astrology, and now give readings regularly in between teaching anatomy, coaching and scuba diving. I am a member of the Restoring Resourcefulness Faculty for the Foundation for Conscious Living and am the Program Director for the Bodywork + Healing Arts Program at Panacea Holistic Institute.