I’m a Brooklyn-based yoga teacher offering practices that help students reconnect with their bodies and breath.

I was first introduced to yoga as a high schooler when I took a class, found it incredibly difficult, and promptly fell asleep in savasana. My regular practice began in 2012 with a semester-long university course taken to fulfill a fitness requirement. It was there that I first encountered foundational alignment principles and complementary energetic practices like qigong.

Yoga became a constant in my life, especially following a mental health crisis shortly before graduation that brought many hard truths to the surface. It was during this time that I began tending to my mental health in earnest, and yoga became a crucial part of my healing. Over the years, as I’ve navigated depression, anxiety, and Crohn’s disease, yoga has remained a steady thread, offering both refuge and reconnection.

I considered yoga teacher training for many years before finally enrolling with Heatwise in early 2024. I was initially motivated by a desire to deepen my understanding of yoga’s history, philosophy, and physicality, but once I had the tools to teach, I felt a clear call to share and support others in their own healing.

Since completing my 200-hour training, I’ve pursued additional certifications in sculpt, yin, restorative, and trauma-informed yoga at Heatwise and The Corner Yoga. In 2025, I am working toward my 300-hour certification through YO BK with advanced study in philosophy, meditation, pranayama, anatomy, and sequencing.

I began teaching in the summer of 2024 and currently lead two weekly classes at Heatwise. I’m also available for private sessions and pop-up events.

Outside of yoga, I hold a degree in cognitive science and work full-time as a product manager, where I delight in solving user problems. Yoga has helped me balance a science-driven, analytical mind with an openness to the philosophical, spiritual, and energetic.

In my classes, you can expect a focus on breath, self-study, and autonomy. I often weave in themes like gratitude, acceptance, and how our practice extends beyond the mat. My playlists lean toward electronic, and I invite students to treat practice as both ritual and refuge. My hope is to offer a container for the kind of physical and emotional breakthroughs that yoga has gifted me.

When I’m not practicing or teaching, you’ll find me birdwatching, reading, or spending time with my partner and our two cats.