Movement
as medicine.

At 23, in the middle of recovering from surgery and one of the darkest periods of my life, I found yoga. My doctor in Germany put it plainly: I was lucky to have found a practice I loved, because with my hypermobility and spinal history, building a strong core and a flexible spine was the only way to age gracefully. After four years of dedicated practice, I pursued my certifications, completing 800 hours of Yoga Teacher Training with a specialization in Yoga Therapy, Ashtanga, and Vinyasa from Sampoorna Yoga School. Yoga gave me the tools to move without pain, to sit with discomfort instead of fighting it, and to rebuild a relationship with my body built on trust rather than control.

Through my Yoga Therapy training, private sessions, and years of working with people in my own community, I have developed experience supporting individuals living with depression, eating disorders, and spinal conditions including lumbar pain and herniated discs. What I witness in these sessions is deeply human: people learning to manage their pain independently with tools they can use in their daily lives long after class ends. With individuals navigating depression, the shift can be immediate: a release that sometimes comes through tears, a moment of stillness that breaks through the heaviness. Above all, I help people find their way back to the refuge that already exists within them.

Outside the yoga mat, I am a polyglot, translator, and language teacher; someone who has always believed that how we communicate shapes how we connect. I bring that same curiosity to movement: I practice pole art, contortion, contemporary dance, and flexibility training, and I weave elements of all of them into my teaching.