Hello! I have been practicing yoga since the mid 1990s and teaching it since the early 2000s. I first tried yoga to help with a nagging hamstring injury, but I soon realized that I especially loved how the practice helped ease my grad school-related stress and encouraged me to begin treating my body and mind with kindness.

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Much of my teaching has focused on youth and families. This focus was initially inspired by an unexpected side job in grad school teaching creative movement to preschoolers, and it solidified when I became a parent through adoption and began practicing yoga with my toddlers to help address their physical health and attachment needs. In 2013, I founded Tree Frog Kids Yoga, and since then I have taught yoga and mindfulness to children, teens, and families in studios, schools, health care settings, community organizations, and online. My teaching approach emphasizes the use of play, movement, and imagination as vehicles for fostering self-empowerment, physical and emotional wellbeing, and connection to self and others.

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Building on my work with parents and caregivers, I have recently began teaching adults. I love to teach hatha and hatha flow classes that emphasize gentle movement, embodied awareness, and self-compassion. My teaching style has been particularly influenced by Iyengar, Ashtanga, Kripalu, Restorative, and various trauma-sensitive approaches.

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I completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training through The Light Within Yoga Studio and my 95-hour Children’s Yoga and Mindfulness certification through ChildLight Education Company. I have completed additional certifications and trainings in trauma-informed care for youth and families (TBRI®), trauma-sensitive yoga, yoga for children with special needs, and mindfulness for youth and teens. In addition to teaching yoga, I am a professor in the Departments of Women & Gender Studies and Communication at the University of Delaware. Perhaps not surprisingly, some of my academic teaching and research focus on yoga, mindfulness, and trauma. I live in Newark with my husband, Paul, and our two amazing sons.