I work through the lens of whole person healing: body, heart, mind, spirit and community. This means I work with groups and individuals to create a safe enough container to come into your heart, learn the wisdom of your body; expand your mind; and connect to the rejuvenating and healing power of your spirit.
As you begin to experience a heart-focused view of life, you connect to purpose and meaning that anchor you in life. Gratitude grows and you are empowered to serve, to see your part in the interconnected web of humanity. Here, you become the healing you seek.
My approach is based on the following principles:
Healing
is the nature of the Universe. When you get a cut or scrape, your body immediately mobilizes for repair. When a forest burns or is cut, new growth emerges. I believe healing happens in relationship. Your relationship to your body, your heart, your mind all influence your healing capacity. Your relationships and connections to others influence your healing. Your connection to your divinity heals. Healing happens only in the present time, and the more time you can spend there, the more quickly you can heal.
Pain
Yoga, Heart, & Spirituality
In yoga we seek to know and love ourselves, with a desire to see truth and reality clearly, for the benefit of all beings.
As I study, practice and integrate the teachings of my teachers (my influences), I teach the yogic view of Kashmir Shaiva Tantra which is based on the following tenets:
- “Know and Love Your Self”
- “Desire to see Truth & Reality clearly” We cultivate insight, intuition, and discernment, clearing away false beliefs and self limiting habits.
“For the Benefit of all Beings” Community, connection, relationship, and service to others are the most powerful avenues for healing.
Trauma
The Body
My Commitment to diversity/anti-racism
My Commitment to diversity /
anti-racism
I teach people who want to grow from stress and injury to heal themselves by developing an empowered relationship with their bodies. The stress and injury caused by living in our racialized culture that actively persecutes certain members of my human family harms all of us. Healing happens in community, in relationship.
It is my deepest intention to create inclusive safe spaces for human connection and healing. It is my sincerest desire to cause no harm–and I acknowledge that I will, at times, cause harm. As a white yoga teacher I am working to recognize where I may be appropriating yoga and take restorative actions. I am committed to doing my work to untangle my own bias, to educate myself, to make reparations, and to change culture by supporting others who are willing to do the uncomfortable work of healing our own culturally racialized ways of being in the world.
All that said, I live in very white rural Vermont and am rather introverted. I have only limited experience in diverse groups. At this stage of my growth I am expanding my awareness of the ways I perceive the world from my white perspective and center my white experiences in my offerings. I am strengthening my racial literacy, learning, and refining my offerings to decolonize my courses. I still have many blind spots in myself to uncover and much to learn as a white woman and an educator and facilitator committed to becoming increasingly anti-racist in myself and my work.
I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Abenaki people, on which I live, work, and play, now called Vermont. I make this acknowledgement to show respect for the people and their 12,000 years on this unceded land. I honor their sacrifice and centuries old traditions of expressing gratitude for the Earth and her gifts.
As a cis gendered woman I benefit from the advantage of living in a heteronormative society. I am witness to the chronic pain, suffering and societal aggression towards LGBTQIA folks in the U.S. Although it is not my direct experience, I have close family and friends, peers and colleagues who are experiencing harm and discrimination in their lives. I am committed to expanding my understanding and refining and/or rebuilding my methods and practices so they are accessible to all people, regardless of gender identity. By continually studying and engaging in trauma informed movement communities I am learning and adapting my conditioned way of being in diverse communities so that I show up in ways that honor all folks’ lived experiences. I welcome feedback for my own growth and refinement and remain open to others in this growth journey.
