Yoga practice can change your life. Are you ready?

I honestly don’t know who I’d be without the practice of yoga in my life. I found it at a time when I was confused, angry, and disconnected from my body and inner voice. The deeper teachings of yoga have utterly transformed my habits of thought, feeling, and behavior. This practice has changed my self-understanding, my relationships, my life.

When I say this, please know I’m not talking about yoga postures. The practice of yoga includes postures, yes, but it’s SO much more than that.

I created the Yoga for Transformation courses in order to make the deeper teachings of yoga more easily accessible to anyone interested in changing their life. If you know how to read the ancient texts and apply them to your life, you’ll discover how simple and practical these teachings are. In these courses, I’ll teach you how to bring the fullness of this ancient practice into your daily life.

I’ve been lucky to study with master teachers. I received foundational training and my 200hr Hatha Yoga Certification from CITYOGA School of Yoga and Health in Indianapolis under the direction of Nikki Myers and Marsha Pappas. I received advanced training and certification as a 500hr Viniyoga Teacher under the direction of Gary Kraftsow at the American Viniyoga Institute in California. And training and certification as an IAYT accredited Yoga Therapist under the direction of Robin Rothenberg of Essential Yoga Therapy in Washington State.

I earned my Bachelor of Arts in printmaking and art history from Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. And my Master of Divinity degree with an emphasis in spirituality from Earlham School of Religion (a Quaker seminary) in Richmond, Indiana.

I’ve been teaching yoga full time since 2010. And have led retreats and workshops throughout the country on such topics as spirituality, creativity, and embodiment.

I look forward to studying with you!

Yoga for Transformation

The complete Yoga for Transformation course is actually a collection of 10 courses. You can take one of them or all of them! While they certainly build on each other, there’s a lot of repetition built in (it’s an important learning tool) so they can be taken in any order.

We have a beautiful, easy to use online classroom. And all 10 courses include:

• Teachings (video, audio, and text) grounded in the wisdom of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita,
• Guided practices that integrate the many tools of yoga (asana, pranayama, mantra, mudra, inquiry, guided meditation, ritual, and prayer) to help you digest and embody the teachings,
• Printable pages offering inspiration and ideas for your personal practice, journal pages for your continued self reflection, and handouts to support your work with the teachings,
• And a list of recommended readings for continued study.

In these courses we explore the complex reality of who we are—body, energy, sensory mind, personality, emotional heart, and spirit. And we study the individual tools that support us on each of these levels.

THE COURSES:

You won’t be on your own

• I’m always only an email away. In this course, you have access to your teacher.

You can add (discounted!) yoga therapy sessions

• The work of transformation isn’t straightforward or easy. This course will provide you with heaps of guidance and support. But nothing compares to one-on-one individualized sessions.
• Set yourself up for success by building accountability and personalized support into your course experience. You’ll receive a discount code as soon as you register.
• In these 90-minute Yoga Therapy sessions (via video conference, phone, or in-person) we’ll take the time to dive deep into what’s happening in your life, study, and practice. These sessions are powerful.

You’ll have lifetime access to the teachings

• As I’ve already said, true and lasting transformation takes time. Once you register for any of these courses, you get them for life. You can continue your study as long as you want to. And as the courses grow, you’ll always get the new content.
• You can work at your own pace and return to helpful teachings as often as you want to.
  • These courses are not about adding another pressure point to your already busy life. There are no rules, tests, or deadlines. You get to decide when and how you interact with the teachings. You can cover the modules in a single day, dive in once a week, or sprinkle them over a month… totally up to you!

Let me share one last thing with you (because I consider it a bonus!)…

We live in a somewhat rootless society.

Almost everyone I know craves a deeper sense of connection, tradition, and rhythm in their lives.

The study and practice of yoga has given me a container—something to hold all the various parts of myself together. It’s given me a way to understand myself and the world. It’s provided a grounding force that allows me to better participate in the ever changing reality of life.

The Yoga for Transformation courses will help you cultivate grounding personal practices. Practices that you can feel authentic about. Practices full of depth and meaning.

In these courses we’re not pulling together a random collection of ideas. We’ll be working through a time tested complete system of self-knowing and transformation (and I’m talking about thousands of years of testing here!).

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali offer us an ancient, yet utterly relevant system for personal understanding and development.

Yoga is so much more than postures. Come build your spiritual practice.

You’ll still be you.

Only you’ll be a clearer version of you.

By which I mean you’ll have a clearer sense of who you actually are and what actually matters most deeply to you.

And you’ll feel like you have choice. You’ll have a better sense of your habitual reactionary patterns and you’ll have the tools to interrupt them. You’ll be able to pause in any given moment and decide how to act with intention.

You’ll recognize difficult emotions and thoughts for what they are (an ever changing part of your reality). And you’ll know they can’t control your reactions or behaviors. You’ll know how to stay in charge of your feelings and thoughts.

Please understand, I’m not saying these courses will take away all your pain and make life completely easy… (I wish!).

What I’m saying is that you’ll have the self-awareness and skill set to approach life differently. As I said above, we can’t control life and we can’t stop the reality of change. But we can decide how we react to life and participate in life.

With the right tools, you can learn to remain grounded and balanced no matter what’s swirling around you.

And this makes all the difference.

This is transformation.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m happy to help!

We know from experience that everything is changing. But how is it changing?

Transformation is working to affect the direction of change in our lives.

It’s not about aggressive self improvement. It’s not about forcing ourselves into some imagined perfection.

It’s about taking the time to really understand who we are—to connect with our deepest sense of Self.

It’s about identifying the habits that keep us lost in our difficult thinking patterns and difficult emotions.

The yoga sutras teach us that future suffering should be avoided.

In these courses we study the tools that help us stay grounded in our True Self and more ease fully move in the direction we want to go.