“I’m passionate about dance, but I’m not a highly-trained dancer. I’ve taken lots of dance classes over the last ten years, but never committed to mastering a specific form. My dance has always been freestyle at its core. I’ve learned predominantly through my connection to the music I love, and how I feel it speak through me.”

“After living in the Bay and rocking dance floors at parties and festivals for about year, people began approaching me and asking if I could teach them what I was doing. Before that, I hadn’t considered the value in sharing my skills because they were honed through a more intuitive relationship to dance. This call from the community inspired me to break out of my limiting ideas about not being skilled or professional enough to teach. I decided to really give some thought to the ways energy was traveling through my body in my dance, where the power in my movements was coming from, and breaking some of this down into drills that could potentially serve others in becoming more powerful, aware, and liberated in their movement. This turned into a practice I call Body Mudra.”

“Very cool, what is Body Mudra exactly?”
“It’s an embodied movement workshop that blends my Prana Flow™ yoga roots with movement drills that help cultivate somatic awareness and strength. It’s this ever-evolving thing that takes new forms as I grow in presence and intentionality in my own movement. When I unlock something new in my body, I incorporate it into the workshop. Dance has been such big medicine for me. It’s how I’ve unearthed the hidden parts of me that needed to be brought into the light. I created this workshop to serve others who are going through their own personal growth process and using movement as catalyst for healing.”

“For me, it’s all about affirming others in the power they posses. The world needs more people who are daring to live fully, who are choosing every day to be brave and break out of the boxes and patterns we find ourselves in…and it can be truly scary to take that step sometimes. It helps to know we’re not alone. If something I’ve offered of myself, my art, or my life has reminded someone of their own greatness…I feel I’m doing my soul’s work in the world.”