Bio
Specializing as a Perinatal & Pelvic Floor Yoga Facilitator, I assist individuals through various transitions in their lives. Much of my teaching is considered to be within the realm of therapeutic and rehabilitative yoga. Including before and after childbirth, pre-and-post menopause, though not exclusive to women’s health. We all have a pelvis. Sit on it every day. Often not realizing something is out of balance, until it begins to aggravate, or interfere with our quality of life.
My aim as a teacher, is to create accessible programing in the community for new and expectant parents. Help people reach their health goals through yoga. And to keep challenging myself to grow through my teaching practice.
I grew up in a family that exposed me to gymnastics, yoga, dance, figure skating (to name just a few recreational activities), at an early age. All while learning the ropes in TV broadcasting in my youth, to follow in a career that spanned two decades thereafter. Health and fitness, (as well as arts and entertainment), has always been, so to say, part of the family business.
My initial 200 Hour YTT training was obtained in Vinyasa Yoga, followed by a TA position in the following session of the same YTT training. Immediately after, I went on to obtain my Prenatal & Post-natal certification (while studying Ayurveda and personal fitness), then I brought my proposal to the Centretown Community Health Centre to start a free Baby & Me Yoga program , beginning said program that August of 2022. September, I began teaching Post-natal and Prenatal classes at Mountain Goat Yoga, regular Hatha, Yin, and Chair classes, while continuing to obtain certifications, in: Meditation, Mudras, Pelvic Floor Yoga, and Chair Yoga. Most significantly, was the Pelvic Floor Yoga with Leslie Howard, completed in spring of 2023. This required arduous practicums, spanning a series of months with clients, following a the pre-requisite in 2022. Of the growing number of health and wellness practitioners going on to complete this level of training, I remain the only facilitator in Ottawa to retain this certification:
Internationally Certified Pelvic Floor Yoga TM Instructors
What keeps me going most of all in my teaching practice, is the sense of community found in the group practices. We can practice at home. Workout alone. But there is a certain something, that comes only with synchronized movement and breath. It embraces the individual, and joins the whole, dividing barriers. Each person can find something in yoga, that is entirely all their own, and sometimes wonderful shared moments.
Three Moons Yoga 