Your Yoga Instructor

Born and raised in Greeneville, Tennessee, my husband Bill and I moved back to the mountains from Florida in 2021 to care give for family. Having purchased a property in downtown Mountain City in 2017, we decided to build out the downstairs as living space and the upstairs as a yoga studio (I had a yoga studio in my home in Florida too), so I could continue to teach yoga and provide selfcare and resilience workshops and trainings.

I have always worked in the Health & Wellness field, and in 2000 I started attending a yoga class at the local Recreation Center in Florida. Having been a Group Exercise Instructor since college and an avid athlete (runner, cyclist, hiker), I found yoga to be a wonderful compliment to personal wellness program. I completed my 1000 hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) with Southern Institute for Yoga Instructors (SIYS) in 2005 and registered as a 500 E-RYT and YACEP (Continuing Education Provider) with Yoga Alliance. I have studied with many Master Teachers over the years including Betty Larsen & John Charping (my YTT Instructors), Judith Lasater, Karin Stephan, Amrit Desai, Kristine Kaveri Weber and others.

My yoga classes are Heart Centered in nature, with a focus on alignment, restoration and nervous system regulation. In addition to teaching yoga part time, and I am also a Certified HeartMath® Trainer and Resilience Coach. My mission it to assist individuals, organizations and communities in evolving to their greatest capacity through healthy, happy, heart- centered living.