I was a fresh out of UW-Madison’s graduate business program (MBA ‘16) when I entered another school, Yoga teacher training school. I had no idea this type of program existed, and I wasn’t even there because I wanted to teach yoga. Yoga unveiled a world within me that I made time to explore, and now I share in giving back yoga to our community. Yoga training became an intimate part of my life for what I thought would just be a couple years (2016 – 2018)…
In business school I learned the ins and outs of business management and organization, and focused on growing skills like public speaking and networking, alongside excel bookkeeping and online marketing. Going in, I had zero intention to land in the C-suite, I simply value education and I was continuing on a path that was forged before me, inherent in the support of my family system. I am grateful for that path, and what continues to unfold on the path forward.
I thought I had put my business skills to the wayside as I entered Yoga training school. I was learning a different kind of networking – the type that triggers internal networks to come online with more depth and presence. Billions of neurons networking in new ways…in and through my body… and as we say “neurons that fire together, wire together!” When I finished my yoga training, a door opened to teach a 1x week class at the local community center. It was an opportunity to start doing something new – growing within the community – I couldn’t say no! The universe was pushing me ahead…
My love for teaching expanded rapidly, and I started teaching a second class at the community center. I continued exploring teachings from local teachers, and found another spark while attending a day-long yoga retreat. I met another local yoga professional going through an intensive 3-year therapeutic yoga program – and while yoga practice wasn’t explicitly therapeutic for me at the time – it definitely provided a balm-like salve on developing my presence within this world. Things in my life became softer and sweeter when engaging with the practices of yoga.
Awe and curiosity in my primarily movement-based practice drew me to continue expanding my training. I landed in the same 3-year therapeutic yoga program from the spark of that teacher, and started pursuing advanced yoga therapist certification (2019-2022). I had no idea my zest for learning, and the impact yoga had on my own life, would draw me into offering private yoga therapy sessions, and expanding my yoga teaching services locally and online!
Now, connecting the dots of my business education and my yoga training, I offer potent and impactful yoga teachings and business services to community yoga spaces. Not only serving individuals and isolated community groups, but also supporting non-profit and small neighborhood studios with growing business knowledge. These organizations bring the tools of Yoga to more people for health, wealth and wellbeing in our local neighborhoods, and I am happy to support and contribute to the missions of these organizations. I also serve as a primary operator for an accessible online yoga studio where we offer seasonal study groups focused on Yoga Philosophy, and therapeutic offerings like SomaYoga.
Satsang Yoga Collective
Online Yoga Classes, Online Workshops, Seasonal Gatherings www.satsangyogatherapyonline.org
International SomaYoga Institute Yoga North
Yoga Therapy Training in Minnesota and Iowa, and Classes Online www.yoganorthduluth.com
Main Street Yoga Center
Yoga Teacher Training in Madison, WI and In Person Classes www.mainstreetyogacenter.org
Main Street Yoga-Stoughton
Continuing Education in Stoughton, WI and In Person Classes www.mainstreetyogastoughton.org
Sukha Somatics
Classes and Special Community Workshops www.sukhasomatics.com
Spiritual Life Society
Yoga Networks in Wisconsin and Ohio www.AUM.org
Other Locations
Wishing Tree Studio (Oregon, WI), Verona Area Senior Center (Verona,WI), Fitchburg Community Center (Fitchburg, WI), Goodman Community Center (Madison, WI), Be Well Madison Network (Madison, WI)
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