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I’ve loved and practiced yoga since 1991. My first yoga class was at an elite fitness center in West Hollywood, where I was obsessed with all kinds of dance and aerobics. Some friends said “come, check out yoga,” and I said, “I’ll do that when I’m 50” (I was 31 at the time, I thought yoga meant sitting around, and 50 was the oldest I could imagine). My friends were convincing, so into the yoga room I went, and it was not at all what I expected. The teacher was leading us in Bikram technique, so the room was heated to 120 degrees and we were doing the most complex poses that I could absolutely not master. There were celebrities and ultra-flexible people bending and twisting in all kinds of directions. The teacher was selling t-shirts and cassette tapes (!) of his classes. Despite the craziness, there was something compelling about the poses, something I’d never experienced in 10 years of studying dance for 10 years (ballet, several varieties of modern, West African dance, hip hop). I spent 2 years in that class before branching out to find

I had been working in tech but wasn’t happy working at giant corporations, decided to leave that career and go to UCLA for a Master’s degree in Dance Ethnology (think anthropology focused on movement). My plan was to get the M.A. and go into a PhD program to become an academic. But while I was at UCLA, I

If the story isn’t enough, here’s the stuff that makes me a legit yoga teacher …

RYT 200 from Yoga Alliance

M.A. in Dance Ethnology from UCLA

Certificate in Yoga Studies from Loyola Marymount University

Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Loyola Marymount University