I live and teach in Asheville, North Carolina as a certified Anahata Yoga teacher. I have been practicing yoga since childhood - Sarvangasana was my preferred posture for watching television as a kid!

A painter by education, with long training in dance, I took my first Anahata class with its founder, Ana Costa, and was captivated by its true balance of body and spirit, grace and practicality. for months in Ana's classes my Savasana included wiping tears out of my ears. It had never occurred to me to teach anything other than art, but Anahata recharted my life path. Once I had encountered it, I only wanted to share it with others.

Since my RYT500 certification in April 2003, I have taught adaptations of the Anahata practice to surfers, teens, seniors, dancers, and the rest of us. It is my wholehearted conviction that yoga's benefits are a timely gift to us and I see in it an antidote to the desensitization, stress, and spiritual starvation of our epoch. Yoga has in it a way to support us in living our lives as we hope to: with strength, calm, happiness, and appreciation.

I am deeply grateful to my teacher, Ana Costa, for her inspiration and instruction. Beyond the RYT500 certification in Anahata, I studied with Ana Costa in the subjects of alignment and adjustment. In summer 2006, I graduated the 100 hour teacher training in Ashtanga yoga in Encinitas. I love the Episcopal Church and worship at the Cathedral of All Souls in Asheville. My heart melted at the sound of Meher Baba's name and since that day in 1972 his presence in my life has been my guiding light and wellspring.

Lovingkindness, one of my favorite words, is the spirit of Anahata Yoga.