Our Instructors

My Path Into Yoga & Teaching

My journey into yoga unfolded through years of dedicated practice, study, and immersion — both at home and abroad. I trained across multiple lineages and styles, learning not just how to move the body, but how to listen to it. Returning to India year after year from 2010-2017 to study different styles and step into immersive experiences. I soon realized my favourite way to spend chunks of this life is deeply immersed in a yoga training.

What drew me most was not performance-based yoga, but the quiet intelligence beneath it: breath, sensation, rhythm, and awareness. I became deeply interested in how yoga intersects with trauma, leadership, communication, and everyday life, how it supports people not just on the mat, but in relationships, work, and moments of transition.

Teaching emerged organically. Students didn’t just want poses, they wanted presence, clarity, and spaces where they could feel safe being real.

Training, Qualifications & Lineage

I am an experienced yoga educator with over 500 hours of formal teacher training, including registration at the E-RYT level, and have guided multiple 200-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings internationally.

My background includes study and certification in:

  • Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, and Restorative Yoga

  • Pranayama and meditation practices

  • Functional anatomy and somatic movement

  • Trauma-informed facilitation and nervous system awareness

  • Energetic anatomy and subtle body studies

  • Yogic philosophy and ethical teaching frameworks

Alongside yoga, I am continuing advanced studies in Ayurveda, deepening my understanding of constitution, digestion, lifestyle medicine, and the relationship between physiology, psychology, and environment.

My teaching is shaped by both classical yogic philosophy and modern embodiment science, blending ancient wisdom with practical, lived application.

Sierra Madré

I didn’t come to yoga to become a teacher.
I came because something in me needed to remember how to live in my body.

Like many people, my early years were shaped by achievement, pressure, and disconnection, doing all the “right” things while feeling increasingly far from myself. Yoga entered my life not as a lifestyle, but as a lifeline. What began as a physical practice slowly revealed itself as something much deeper: a system of self-inquiry, nervous system regulation, and embodied wisdom that met me where I actually was.

Over time, yoga stopped being something I did and became something I lived.

Why I Created This Work

After years of teaching classes, retreats, and trainings, I saw a gap.

Many yoga spaces focused on aesthetics without integration, or spirituality without grounding. Others emphasized hierarchy over agency, or transformation without tools to sustain it.

I created my trainings and educational offerings to be different:

  • Trauma-aware, not triggering

  • Grounded, not performative

  • Structured, but human

  • Deep without being dogmatic

I realized we are not a problem to be fixed, we are perfect in our imperfections, and our body is the classroom.
Presence is not a concept, it is a practice.

Who I Work With

I work best with people who are curious, self-reflective, and ready to take responsibility for their own growth.

My students include:

  • Aspiring and current yoga teachers

  • Facilitators and space-holders

  • Therapists, coaches, and wellness professionals

  • Leaders navigating burnout or transition

  • Individuals seeking depth, not performance

Whether you choose to teach or not, the work is the same: learning how to inhabit yourself with clarity, compassion, and integrity.

My Teaching Philosophy

I believe:

  • Yoga should support real life, not bypass it

  • Healing happens through relationship and regulation

  • There is no single path, protocol, or practice for everyone

  • Leadership begins with self-awareness and embodiment

Yoga, at its core, is not about becoming someone else.
It is about remembering who you are — and learning how to live from that place.

With every training completed, every group certified, every business started and every business sold I have come to realize one fundamental and impossible to ignore truth, how you handle your inner world is how you handle your outer world.

Yoga started as fun travel adventure and within the first week of meditating on the banks of Ganges in India I felt something shift. For the first time in my life I felt like I was experiencing the supernatural powers of consciousness I wasn’t even aware existed. Not only did I have no language to explain it, but I had no intention to discover it. I wasn't even looking for it.

But I think that is the best part. when you practice without any expectation or agenda mthe universe reveals itself to you in the most proud way.

I always say I didn’t go looking for yoga but I am so eternally grateful yoga found me.

“Yoga may not be the question but it is always the answer.”