My yin yoga journey started many years ago as I started exploring different forms of yoga. I was very committed to an ashtanga yoga practice when the pandemic started and I was seeking something milder. I’m not sure if it was all the controversy around ashtanga teachers being traumatizing or if my nervous system just needed a change.

I started taking regular yin yoga classes until I finally did a training in Ubud, Bali with Jo Phee and Joe Barnett. it was an intense three week training focused on TCM and anatomy. I really loved it and started to do lots of yin yoga after this training and rode my peloton (pandemic peloton) for cardio.

Yin yoga really appeals to the sense of calm in my nervous system. My life was so chaotic growing up that I would cry in my first few classes as it felt like permission to “just be” and to not be doing all the time or striving. I think it’s called hyper-vigilance when we feel the need to keep pursuing and achieving or performing. Yin was a place where I could lay flat on the floor and just breathe and let my breath massage me from the inside. It was a place where I could be my own resource of healing. The only yoga I will guide now is yin as it’s my medicine and I only guide with my own medicine.