Viniyoga Lineage

Krishnamacharya is known as the father of modern yoga and especially the Viniyoga lineage. His son, Desikechar, was the teacher to many of my teachers that I continue to study with today. I always think that it is my good fortune that I came in touch with all these amazing human beings and I am so indebted to all the teachers who have committed their lives to yoga. I am trained in the Viniyoga tradition, and I am an internationally certified yoga therapist. Yoga Therapy certification is generally three years long and requires over a thousand-hour training.

Yoga Therapy: Integrating Body, Breath, and Mind

Sometimes, it seems like my life is a two-part continuum – before yoga and after yoga. A few years ago, I had started to practice yoga on a daily basis. Initially, it was to alleviate some breathing issues I had at that time, but then slowly the motivation for doing yoga started to shift as more and more of my life started to make sense. I mean make sense in a different way! In a way, life no longer seemed so fragmented. Unbeknownst to me, there was some integration that was happening within while I was working on my breathing. This process is like carefully holding onto one end of an entangled knot of thread and gently pulling on it to untangle it. None of this, did I have to do alone. I have a mentor with whom I work, as the unfolding continues. While this process goes on, life-long, it also invigorates me and lays a path forward. A path on which it would be my delight to support others who are seeking ways to alleviate suffering and find balance.