Yoga is evolving.

I envision a future in which people are comfortable feeling their feelings and are truly free, from their own past conditioning and the opinions of others. In this new world, unity dominates over difference and wisdom takes priority over mere information and knowledge; celebration and joy are a common experience around the world; people are simultaneously transcendent and acting dharmically in the material plane.

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My Vision

A Path with Heart

I teach yoga to help people let go of fear, develop self-acceptance, and experience their inherent bliss nature in order to become more relevant and joyful in the world.

I fell in love with yoga sixteen years ago, when I wandered into a yoga studio as a stressed out corporate technology lawyer and experienced a deep sense of peace in śavāsana. It wasn’t long before I did his my yoga teacher training. Twelve years ago I started teaching vinyasa and hatha yoga in San Francisco, California.

My influences include Hatha Yoga, Bhakti Flow, Himalayan Kundalini, classical Tantra, and the Babaji / Yogananda tradition. In the past seven years I has been focused on exploring the breadth and depth of the Yog-Vedantic traditions, authentic yoga, and the energetic practices of yoga like kriya, mantra, and pranayama, as well as Vedic astrology.

I teaches yoga, breathwork, kriya, and meditation, and offers integrative yoga and plant medicine workshops, courses, retreats, and trainings all over the world.

My public, private, and online classes are holistic, dynamic, fun, and designed to encourage my students to unearth their highest selves, and to reach their greatest potential. Ultimately, I wants to make my students’ experience of yoga one of connection, love, surrender, celebration, and compassion. I see my life’s mission as one of leading people to increasing values of liberation and expansion.

Spiritual Education

  • Masters in philosophy, cosmology and consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies (expected 2024)

  • Prison Yoga Project Foundational Training (ongoing 2021)

  • Jyotish / Vedic Astrology Foundations, Anand Mehrotra

  • Master Yoga Teacher Training (Vedic + Tantric Transcendental Wisdom, Sattva Yoga, Kriya, Naad, Himalayan Kundalini, Laya, Hatha Vinyasa, Sattva Meditation), November-December 2020, Sattva Yoga Academy

  • Gurukul / guest teacher trainer at Sattva Yoga Academy, Rishikesh, India, 2018–2019, including:

    • 200 hour YTT

    • 300 hour YTT

    • 80-hour master module on meditation

    • 80-hour master module on the Tantrik Dasha Mahavidyas

    • Warriors of Wisdom retreat (India)

    • 138-hour Bhagavad Gita Course

    • 36-hour course on the Saundarya Lahari by Shankara

    • Morning Discourses on the Upanishads

  • 300-Hour Sattva Yoga Teacher Training, April–May 2018 at Sattva Yoga Academy, Rishikesh, India

  • 60-Hour Mantra Module with Kia Miller, November 2017, Radiant Body Yoga, Rishikesh, India

  • 200-Hour Bhakti Flow Yoga Teacher Training, Summer 2017, Yogamaya, New York, NY

  • 200-Hour Devi Vinyasa Teacher Training, Spring, 2010, with Stephanie Snyder and Elise Lorimer, San Francisco, CA

Elemental Yoga is a holistic fusion of pranayama (breathwork), kriya, asana, laya movements, warrior breaths, meditation, and dance. Yes, dance!

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Holistic Yoga

The outer journey.

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“Surrendering fully to being lost — and this is where the art comes in — you will discover that, in addition to not knowing how to get where you had wanted to go, you are no longer so sure of the ultimate rightness of that goal. By trusting your unknowing, your old standards of progress dissolve and you become eligible to be chosen by new, larger standards, those that come not from your mind or old story or other people, but from the depths of your soul. You become attentive to an utterly new guidance system.”

— Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft