My Story:

Yoga found me in a windowless basement in 2011, at Auburn University. I graduated from Auburn with my bachelors in Entrepreneurship, minoring in Sustainability Studies with a focus on sustainable business operations and poverty alleviation. I started teaching at Auburn University Rec Center after a small training, and when moved to San Francisco, California in 2015 I paused on teaching and decided to dive into my own personal practice while focusing on my career. Nothing is linear, and everything happens at the right time.

I started working in merchandising and design at Williams Sonoma, in San Francisco. I frequented Yoga Garden and Yoga Tree (Now Castro Room).

I am greatly influenced by Janet Stone, whom I practiced with for many years in San Francisco. Janet was the first teacher who challenged my view of the world, and what kind of person I wanted to become.

I started working in Partnerships & Program Management Trove, a resale company, furthering on my passion for retail and decreasing our consumption by buying used goods from the US Top Brands.

I left Trove to get IPO experience, working in Partnerships and Fulfillment Strategy at Instacart which led me to New York. I valued Instacart’s mission to encourage people to cook with their families.

I moved to New York City in 2021, I found Souk Yoga Studio, a reference from Janet, where I met Rima Rabbath. I started practicing Jivamukti 5x a week, and on a random Saturday met Barbara Verrochi and Kristin Leigh. Well, that was that.

I signed up for The Shala’s 300 hour program, which includes Buddhist Studies Program. I am proud to say, I read all books on their reading list.

I continued to dive into my practice, while teaching, and decided after losing my dad to dive into my Jivamukti lineage and Jivamukti’s 300 hour training program in India, and while seeking medical care from their Ayurvedic Healing Center. Yoga has saved my life time, and time again.

Both programs are deeply rooted in a commitment to Bhakti yoga, meditation practice, and living the 8 limbs of Ashtanga yoga.

Now, in 2026, I am finishing my advanced mentorship with Ian Szydlowski – Alvarez at Jivamukti Paris, and assisting Rima at Souk.

Now, I am teaching yoga and consulting.

I am honored to be part of a strong and direct linage and deeply respect my teachers, while fusing my own experience and inspiration of my own practice in my teachings. I am grateful to my teachers, and my students, and friends.

I believe spirituality can be found in everything with the right lenses. If you can breathe, you can practice yoga, and yoga is to be practiced most importantly outside of the studio, even while drinking a glass of wine or working in a spreadsheet!