I am a 5th degree black belt in Isshinryu Karate with 26 years of martial arts training. I am
also a mountain biker, runner and my favorite gym workout was always one involving HIIT. But when I began to experience constant pain from the long-term effects of playing competitive sports and high energy training, a friend suggested trying yoga. Skeptical at first, I became instantly committed to the practice of yoga after finishing my first hour of a hot power yoga class. It was hard and it was hot, but the daily pain I experienced quickly disappeared and I soon realized that yoga not only offered me a dynamic physical challenge, but also provided something I had never experienced – a healing connection between my mind, body and spirit.

I have been a yoga practitioner for 8 years and received my certification as a yoga instructor in 2020. My motivation to teach comes from what I have learned from other yoga instructors over the last 8 years and the physical, mental and spiritual transformation I have experienced from my  own practice. I teach a vinyasa/power yoga class, inspired by the yoga master, Baron Baptiste – sometimes with a little heat, always with music, and always with the hope that I can bring the benefits I have experienced from yoga to others.

Outside of yoga, I have been an attorney for approximately 30 years. After 15 years in private practice as a domestic relations attorney, I served as the Deputy Secretary for the Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security for 7 years. Since 2014, I am employed at Delaware Technical Community College, serving in several roles at the College, including as Senior Legal Counsel, the Director for Public Safety and, currently, as the Director of Title IX and Civil Rights Compliance. I am happily married to Stephen and has two grown children, Nicholas and Maia.