2003 was a powerful year in my life: I graduated from Rutgers University with an MFA in acting, I was auditioning in NYC, & I was moving through my first ‘Saturn Return’ - a powerful astrological turning point in life experienced between the ages of 27-29.

I was questioning everything I inherited from family & society; what I was taught to believe in. It was at that time, in late fall of that year, while embarking on this ‘dark night of the soul’ - this ‘shedding of the skin’ that yoga found me.

In the fall of that year, I was invited to attend a class at Jivamukti Yoga in the East Village. As I sat listening to the dharma talk before movement, I found myself quietly crying in the back of the large room with 40 other yogis not knowing why……

Perhaps it was the incense, or the chanting, or the shapes I found myself in that were led by an oceanic breath… or perhaps it was in the sound of Ôm as we bowed inward that brought me home to my ‘SELF’. Little did I know then how that moment would change my life trajectory.

Click the link to listen to my full story: how yoga took me around the world, healed my ‘mother wound’, brought me to astrology, carried me through rites of passage, and gifted me a purpose to create a global community with the intention to ‘IGNITE THE LIGHT’!