"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes De Mille
My yoga practice started as a practical approach to heal my old sports injuries. It has since evolved into a tool that I use daily, particularly during times in my life when I'm not sure, I don't know what's next, and I certainly don't know how.
I first came to my mat nearly 20 years ago, during college in Vermont. During my early-20s I would sporadically go to a yoga class, but I never committed to a regular yoga practice. During that same time, I began to study meditation, spending extensive periods in meditation centers and Buddhist monastaries in the U.S. and Asia.
When I entered my mid-20s, after feeling like I couldn't connect to yoga, I threw in the towel, or I suppose, one could say, the mat. After hearing talk about chakras and heart-openers - and having no clue what any of that meant - I figured yoga was just not for me. Instead, while living in Montana for 10 years, I turned to Pilates as a way to complement my rigorous, aerobic & anaerobic endeavers.
I found myself back on my mat in my early-30s after a series of major life changes. I was first drawn to yin yoga because, as a competitive, recreational athlete, I needed a way to heal years of innumerous sports injuries that had caught up with me, and were causing unbearable physical and psychological pain. I also realized that my physical pain was exacerbated by all of the stress from the upheaval in my life, and that it was time to add another arrow in my quiver to help me manage my stress.
"Sometimes you just have to let everything fall apart."
What I didn't realize at the time, was that the beauty of everything falling apart, was that it created the perfect opportunity for me to fall in love with yoga. Sure, this time around, I came to the mat as an older, skeptical, yogini-lawyer. But after trying a few different styles of yoga, I quickly became enamored with the grounding, challenge of power yoga, and the soft, meditative space of yin yoga. Growing up in NYC gave me a finely-tuned no-bullshit radar so I sought teachers who were direct communicators, and lacked fluff. Once hooked, I became increasingly curious about not only the physical postures, but also about how I could apply yoga philosophy to my crazy, modern-day life. My personal yoga practice consists of a balance between a restorative, yin practice, and a vigorous, yang power practice.
After residing in Montana for nearly 10 years, I took my practice further, from 2014-2016, I practiced, and taught yoga and meditation full-time throughout the Asia-Pacific. I was based primarily in Bali, Indonesia, and during that time I completed 365 consecutive days of meditation, ranging from 20 to 60 minute sits at a time, including multi-sits within single 24-hour periods.
From 2016 - 2018, I was based in Boise, Idaho, working primarily as a civil rights attorney, and secondarily as a yoga teacher. After taking a few years away, I finally returned home to my heart's home in 2018, and live in Bozeman, Montana. When I'm not on my mat, you can find me outside telemark skiing, trail running, and hiking, or inside the courtroom.
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