Engage. Encourage. Inspire.
I don’t ever remember getting the message I could do or be anything I wanted to be. I always had dreams, some of them big dreams-but much of the outer messages I heard were more about being careful and about how hard life was and about how unrealistic big dreams were. I was encouraged to be practical and strive for ‘normal’ things-a good (read: safe) job that would pay the bills, the house with the backyard, kids, blah, blah, blah.
Those messages convinced me to keep small and not to try for anything big or bold or bright because big, bold and bright wasn’t for ‘real’ people.
While those outer messages may have been present for much of my life, a small voice inside me was also present and that small voice kept saying, yes...but. Yes, but what about all those people I read about who climbed mount Everest or became actors or authors or who created businesses. Aren’t they normal people too? Didn’t they start out as children just like me? What’s the difference between those people and me? Why couldn’t I do something amazing and beautiful?
The road has been long and twisty.
For many years, I tried to conform and fit into the experience of life that I had been told about-one that spoke of pain and hardship and not expecting too much. I think I subconsciously made decisions based on those first messages I got-decisions that created pain, loss, financial and personal hardship, low self worth and esteem. Somewhere along the way, I was no longer able to force myself to keep creating a life that made me miserable. In spite of years of messages from outside myself that told me to play it small, I somehow found the strength and courage to start letting those messages go and start living a life that the small voice never let me forget was always possible.
I’m 35 years old and I'm really getting bored with those outer messages. I have also begun to realize that the small voice...the voice that never quite died or shut up...may be the actual truth of my life.
Because the solid experiences of my life has been ones of boundless beauty and grace, compassion and forgiveness, impossible strength and courage. These are the experiences that happen time and again, the ones that form the bedrock of my experiences, the ones that vastly outweigh the experiences of pain, disappointment and lack.
But now the path is flooded with light.
It is this knowledge and experience that I endeavor to share with others. I aim to help you see the beauty of yourself, your own gifts and strengths and trust in your intuition and knowledge. I want you to see in yourself what I fought so hard to uncover in myself-the knowledge of you capabilities, the truth of your worth.
I want you to stop seeing yourself as a victim and instead, know yourself as a creator. I want create within myself, within you and within in the world a joyful rebellion-a movement of compassion instead of consumption, of wealth instead of riches, of understanding instead of demanding, of unique creative expression and most importantly, of community where love wins.
And by the way, I want us to relax a bit-stop with the sky high expectations and instead start creating habits. This life is too short to be taken all that seriously.
I do this, primarily, through the lessons and tools provided in yoga. I see yoga as a system-a structured method that provides tools to integrate the mind, body and spirit. I also see it as an art form, and like all art forms, yoga is free, experiential and evolving, rebellious and a little messy.
I have come to realize that it only once we have grown roots that we can be free to create and blossom as we desire.
I obtained my 200 hour certification yoga instruction and therapy from the Divine School of Yoga Therapy in June 2011, and am a registered yoga instructor with the Yoga Alliance.
Life, as I know it.
The journey so far has been rich and interesting, if not always easy. My parents are scientists and we spent much of my childhood moving across the country and even to Guam so that my father could find work in his field. I got married at 19 to my high school sweetheart, a very nice guy who joined the army the minute we graduated. It only lasted 3.5 years and I was devastated when we broke up but we've managed to move on and stay friendly.
I graduated from Oklahoma State University with a BS in Business Administration in 2000 and moved to Dallas with every intention in getting a real job and living a normal life. The real job appeared and I payed my bills like a good girl but normal continued to allude me. In 2001, I began managing a band (in addition to my day job) and that band got signed to a major record label in 2003. We parted ways (To say it wasn't amicable is an understatement-did I mention that I was also dating the bass player? I'm an idiot.) but fast forward ten years and I now work with the lead singer of that band at the corporate office of a major retailer.
Yeah, life is weird.
It is also amazing. Shortly after the band and I parted ways, I walked into a bar on a wednesday night to enjoy some happy hour specials with a friend and met the guy who is now my husband. He shares my love of animals and we have 4 adopted dogs that drive us crazy but never cease to make us laugh.
When not out trying to save the world, I can usually be found on the couch with my husband and dogs, laughing at reruns of the Big Bang Theory.
I am incredibly blessed.
Thank you for joining this joyful rebellion.
I don’t ever remember getting the message I could do or be anything I wanted to be. I always had dreams, some of them big dreams-but much of the outer messages I heard were more about being careful and about how hard life was and about how unrealistic big dreams were. I was encouraged to be practical and strive for ‘normal’ things-a good (read: safe) job that would pay the bills, the house with the backyard, kids, blah, blah, blah.
Those messages convinced me to keep small and not to try for anything big or bold or bright because big, bold and bright wasn’t for ‘real’ people.
While those outer messages may have been present for much of my life, a small voice inside me was also present and that small voice kept saying, yes...but. Yes, but what about all those people I read about who climbed mount Everest or became actors or authors or who created businesses. Aren’t they normal people too? Didn’t they start out as children just like me? What’s the difference between those people and me? Why couldn’t I do something amazing and beautiful?
The road has been long and twisty.
For many years, I tried to conform and fit into the experience of life that I had been told about-one that spoke of pain and hardship and not expecting too much. I think I subconsciously made decisions based on those first messages I got-decisions that created pain, loss, financial and personal hardship, low self worth and esteem. Somewhere along the way, I was no longer able to force myself to keep creating a life that made me miserable. In spite of years of messages from outside myself that told me to play it small, I somehow found the strength and courage to start letting those messages go and start living a life that the small voice never let me forget was always possible.
I’m 35 years old and I'm really getting bored with those outer messages. I have also begun to realize that the small voice...the voice that never quite died or shut up...may be the actual truth of my life.
Because the solid experiences of my life has been ones of boundless beauty and grace, compassion and forgiveness, impossible strength and courage. These are the experiences that happen time and again, the ones that form the bedrock of my experiences, the ones that vastly outweigh the experiences of pain, disappointment and lack.
But now the path is flooded with light.
It is this knowledge and experience that I endeavor to share with others. I aim to help you see the beauty of yourself, your own gifts and strengths and trust in your intuition and knowledge. I want you to see in yourself what I fought so hard to uncover in myself-the knowledge of you capabilities, the truth of your worth.
I want you to stop seeing yourself as a victim and instead, know yourself as a creator. I want create within myself, within you and within in the world a joyful rebellion-a movement of compassion instead of consumption, of wealth instead of riches, of understanding instead of demanding, of unique creative expression and most importantly, of community where love wins.
And by the way, I want us to relax a bit-stop with the sky high expectations and instead start creating habits. This life is too short to be taken all that seriously.
I do this, primarily, through the lessons and tools provided in yoga. I see yoga as a system-a structured method that provides tools to integrate the mind, body and spirit. I also see it as an art form, and like all art forms, yoga is free, experiential and evolving, rebellious and a little messy.
I have come to realize that it only once we have grown roots that we can be free to create and blossom as we desire.
I obtained my 200 hour certification yoga instruction and therapy from the Divine School of Yoga Therapy in June 2011, and am a registered yoga instructor with the Yoga Alliance.
Life, as I know it.
The journey so far has been rich and interesting, if not always easy. My parents are scientists and we spent much of my childhood moving across the country and even to Guam so that my father could find work in his field. I got married at 19 to my high school sweetheart, a very nice guy who joined the army the minute we graduated. It only lasted 3.5 years and I was devastated when we broke up but we've managed to move on and stay friendly.
I graduated from Oklahoma State University with a BS in Business Administration in 2000 and moved to Dallas with every intention in getting a real job and living a normal life. The real job appeared and I payed my bills like a good girl but normal continued to allude me. In 2001, I began managing a band (in addition to my day job) and that band got signed to a major record label in 2003. We parted ways (To say it wasn't amicable is an understatement-did I mention that I was also dating the bass player? I'm an idiot.) but fast forward ten years and I now work with the lead singer of that band at the corporate office of a major retailer.
Yeah, life is weird.
It is also amazing. Shortly after the band and I parted ways, I walked into a bar on a wednesday night to enjoy some happy hour specials with a friend and met the guy who is now my husband. He shares my love of animals and we have 4 adopted dogs that drive us crazy but never cease to make us laugh.
When not out trying to save the world, I can usually be found on the couch with my husband and dogs, laughing at reruns of the Big Bang Theory.
I am incredibly blessed.
Thank you for joining this joyful rebellion.
