May we live lives filled with meaning. May we live on purpose.

I’ve always been a seeker. I’ve been drawn to spirituality, mysticism, ritual, nature, and healing in it’s many forms. I’ve been blessed with the love, support, and courage to follow my heart’s calling as a seeker, practitioner, teacher and minister. In my work, I’m deeply interested in bringing inquiry, connection, and wakefulness into being. Whether it’s teaching a yoga class, leading a training, officiating a wedding, or offering a blessing for a sacred moment in life — all of life is an opportunity to make meaning and be connected to something greater and bigger than ourselves.

In the mid 90s, I began to collect books from the University library on Buddhism. I studied alone and started a meditation practice. My path led me to yoga in the late 90’s where I made a home. I studied asana, sacred texts, and Sanskrit. A few years later, I began to study herbalism and nutrition and became a certified nutritional practitioner as well as a yoga teacher. I started to incorporate daily ritual into life to bring the sacred into ordinary places. I experienced this as a way to add more meaning to life. 

In 2012, my spiritual path was accelerated by a cancer diagnosis that would occupy three years of my life. I was the mother to a very young child at the time and the experience propelled me to re-evaluate my life and to live with purpose. I deepened my spiritual practices with chanting, pranayama, prayer, meditation, and kindness. I began reading about energy systems and healing and found deep comfort in sacred texts. This infused my life, my practice, and my teaching in a way that felt authentic and meaningful. 

Yoga Teacher, Reverend, & Doula

In 2016, I began to feel a call to expand my work beyond the community of Yoga. The following year, I entered Interfaith/Interspiritual Seminary School at One Spirit Seminary in New York. It was a privilege to dedicate two years to immerse in the study of world religions, ceremony, community, and personal growth. I was asked to adopt spiritual practices from paths that had been unfamiliar, and fell in love with the Divine in its many forms. I wrote ceremonies, rituals, and learned skills to counsel people on spiritual matters. I became increasingly passionate each month as I wrote ceremonies and rituals for marriage, baby blessings, and funerals with the consideration of many religions and faiths, but more often for families who are not religious but wanted a sense of sacredness in their ceremony.

During this time, my heart started to open to help people and their families in life’s final transition. I added training through Lifespan Doulas to become an End of Life Doula so that I may serve people and their families with thoughtfulness as they are preparing to die. 

My work in this life is to help others on their spiritual path wherever they may be. My hope is to live with awareness and intention and to help others do the same. Whether it be through inquiry in a yoga class, a year-long yoga teacher training, conversation around spiritual matters of the heart, celebrating a wedding, blessing a baby, speaking at a funeral, or helping others to move into death with consciousness, my desire is that we move through life in a wakeful state of gratitude, consciousness, and evolution.

Trainer with the Bhavana Yoga School

I am a trained E-RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher) with 500 hours. I lead classes around Rhode Island at various locations. Interested students can find my schedule on the Yoga page.

I am also a founding member of the Bhavana Yoga School and we offer 200hr and 300hr courses for Yoga professionals certified with the Yoga Alliance and available for registration through All That Matters Yoga.

May we live lives filled with meaning. May we live on purpose.