I received my yoga teacher certification at the Sivananda Yoga Ranch in Woodbourne, NY in October, 2001. The program at the ashram began just three days before the Twin Towers collapsed. After the tragedy, our hosts chose not to cancel the month-long session that was just underway. They also refrained from indulging in the media frenzy–a choice I am forever grateful for. To this day I have only seen a few clips of the event that changed America. But I saw another powerful change that month. It was the one within me and my fellow classmates. Yoga does that, whether we want to change or not. You simply cannot do the work and not come out a different person.

It seems most fitting that I now teach yoga to children who were also spared the tragedy in September 2001. Most of them were not even born yet. I’ve taught adults, retreats, privates and everything in between, which I do enjoy. However, there is something quite incredible in sharing yoga with children. Perhaps it’s their fearlessness that makes them teachers in their own rite. Or perhaps there’s nothing like being reminded that we’re all children.

Regardless, it’s an honor and a privilege to share this tool with children now so that they can share it with us in the future. The world they stand to inherit is going to be harder on those of us attached to these old ways than it will be on their flexible spirits.

Teaching Experience

SatNaam.org — Los Angeles Inner City Schools 2010-2011 School Year

Aimee Arts Production — Los Angeles Inner City Schools 2010-2011 School Year

Playtime Fitness — Los Angeles Inner City Schools Spring 2010

Eden Hot Springs — David Wolfe Retreats 2004-2007

Synergy Yoga — Miami Studio 2001-2003

Big Brothers and Big Sisters — Miami Yoga Program 2001-2002

Sivananda Yoga Ranch — 200 hour training course: beginner and intermediate yoga and guided meditation, Woodbourne NY 2001