I was a long distance runner who found yoga and went the distance on that too.

I practiced through the 3rd series in Ashtanga Yoga, was Authorized and taught 5 days a week at the original YogaWorks™ the studio where the famous Jois primary series video was filmed. 

You could say that I am flexible. More flexible than most. You don’t buy your way into 3rd series, but you pay with a higher baseline of flexibility.

So when my son was born in 2020, and my back went out while lifting him out of the crib at 3am in the middle of the pandemic, the physical therapist told me to do back bends, the chiropractor told me to come back each week even though I wasn’t getting any better, the acupuncturist stuck needles in my back.

Meanwhile my son is on the floor crying and I can’t lift him up because the pain causes me to black out. 

I didn’t have time to wait and see, to come back each week and get nothing. I was beyond the ‘normal’ range of motion for the PT and they said to keep deepening my back bends. The chiro thought yoga was gentle stretching. I felt it was like taking a Ferrari to a Prius mechanic and thinking that would help.

Being a Nurse, and having a masters degree in Oriental Medicine, I am a huge anatomy nerd. Putting together functional movement and acupuncture channel theory, I was able to fix my spine with medicinal movements and began teaching them to my students.

Suddenly they were learning handstands, repairing rotator cuff tears, and strengthening their knees. Word got out and I have students in France, Malta, India, and all over the US asking for help with their practice.

Are you ready to deepen your practice and heal?