Established in 2018, Yoga in the Triangle has grown to become one of the region’s trusted wellness services for private and workplace yoga. As the founder and lead teacher, I have taught thousands of hours of yoga and mindfulness classes for my valued private yoga students in Raleigh, Apex, Cary, Holly Springs, Morrisville, as well as nationally through virtual classes. I’ve organized and lead nearly as many workplace wellness events for leaders and team members across numerous industries from accounting to warehousing. I firmly believe in the power of yoga and meditation to help all of us navigate a rapidly changing world.

On a personal level, I have been practicing yoga since 1996 when I walked into my first yoga class at an obscure community center in Fresno, California. As a student of theater, I had heard about the benefits of yoga and was curious to try it. I have been practicing yoga and meditation ever since.

After graduating from theater conservatory,  I traveled from California to the Catskills of New York to live and work at Ananda Ashram Yoga Society of New York in a search to deepen my understanding of the practices of yoga. There I learned the life skills of regular meditation, chanting, yoga asana (physical practice of yoga poses), intentional community and service.

Years later, after transitioning into a fundraising and grant-writing role at a non-profit arts organization in California, I discovered that the ability to focus I’d learned through yoga and meditation lent itself to marathon sitting sessions at the desk; writing and preparing grants and reports.

The yoga class at the end of the day was a welcome relief, but over time, sitting for long periods began to take its toll on my body and overall wellness. Incorporating yoga, movement and mindfulness into my daily life helped me improve my physical and mental health. Soon after, I found myself caretaking my profoundly ill husband, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer not long after we started a family. Over a decade later, I can credit a regular yoga practice with the resilience to manage the anxiety, fear, grief and uncertainty of being touched by cancer, losing my husband and becoming a solo mother to our young child.