Teaching Experience

Teaching Experience

I have over 1,500 hours of teaching experience since 2000:

  • All Levels Yoga Classes, 2015-to present, Denton Yoga Center, Denton, TX
  • Beginner Yoga Series, 2013-2014, Dallas Yoga Center, Dallas, TX
  • Level 1 & Mixed Level Hatha Yoga Classes, 2002-2011, Capitol Hill Yoga, Washington, DC
  • Prenatal Hatha Yoga Classes, 2002-2011, Capitol Hill Yoga, Washington, DC
  • Labor & Delivery Partner Workshops, 2004-20011, Capitol Hill Yoga, Washington, DC
  • Yoga for Two Pre & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training for students in Fukuoka, Japan, March 2011 & Tokyo, Japan, October 2014
  • Pregnancy Yoga, 2012, Willow Street Yoga, Silver Spring, MD
  • Post-Natal short course, Spring 2012, Willow Street Yoga, Silver Spring, MD

Yoga Teacher Training

I have over 600 hours in accredited yoga teacher training programs:

  • Ashaya Yoga Advanced 300 hour Teacher Training, 2012 – to present
  • Willow Street Yoga 200 hour Teacher Training Graduate (Anusara style), 2011
  • Kripalu Yoga 200 hour Teacher Training Graduate, 2002

I have over 175 hours of study in additional teacher training workshops with master teachers from 2003 to present:

  • Anusara Yoga Teacher Training with Betsey Downing, 33 hours, 2003
  • Anusara Yoga Teacher Training: The Art of Teaching Beginners with Betsey Downing, 12 hours, 2003
  • Anusara Yoga Teacher Training: Sequencing with Betsey Downing, 33 hours, 2004
  • Yoga for Two: Pre & Post-natal Teacher Training (Anusara –style) with Mary Barnes, 54 hours, 2004 & 2005
  • Anusara Teacher Intensive with John Friend, 18 hours, 2011
  • Anusara Teaching with Hands-on Assists with Todd Norian, 8 hours, 2011
  • Advance Teacher Intensive with Todd Norian, Ann Green, and Bestey Downing, 32 hours, July 2012

Continuing Education for Personal Yoga Expertise

I continue to take a variety of yoga classes and special workshops to further my personal practice. In addition to regular yoga classes, I have over 300 hours in special workshop study in yoga asana, therapeutics, meditation, and philosophy with master teachers Betsey Downing, Desiree Rumbaugh, Judith Lasater, Jenny Otto, Ross Rayburn, Douglas Brooks, Sally Kempton, Doug Keller, Mary Barnes, and John Friend.

Photo Credit: Reiko Fukumoto, Miami, FL, 2012