For most of my adult life, I worked in professional, high-pressure environments. I was a corporate trainer, corporate HR manager, and ultimately an HR Director for the Sheriff’s Office. My days were filled with policies, people management, high-stakes decision-making, and constant responsibility.

And while that work was meaningful, it was also intense.

Yoga quietly became my steady place to breathe.

At first, it was just something I did to manage stress. To feel my body again. To remember that I was more than my job title. Over time, it became something deeper — a practice that softened me, steadied me, and slowly, gently changed the way I moved through the world.

That quiet personal practice eventually became a calling.

I eventually stepped into a new chapter as an educator, and for the past several years I’ve been teaching professionally in the classroom. Education deepened my love for people, for growth, for meeting others exactly where they are.

Yoga and teaching began to merge naturally for me.

I completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training with Happiness Yoga Retreat, a transformational experience that rooted me deeply in both tradition and compassion. Later, I completed my 500-hour at Pose by Pose yoga, expanding my training and refining my ability to support students with diverse needs and bodies.

Along the way, I also became:

• Certified in Restorative Yoga

• Certified in Yin Yoga

• Certified in Yoga Nidra

• Certified in Kids Yoga

• A YMCA-certified Group Exercise Instructor

• A Precision Nutrition-certified Nutrition Coach

• A State of Florida certified K-12 teacher

  Each of these layers informs how I teach today. I teach with depth and understanding, kindness, safety, a real-world practicality and a promise to meet people where they are.