I've been teaching yoga and Pilates on Cape Cod since 2011. My classes are thought-provoking, serious but playful, challenging but approachable — built around a slow, alignment-focused approach and a genuine interest in how the body works.

My teaching also moves beyond the physical. Pranayama, the subtler aspects of practice, the habitual patterns that get in the way of feeling steady and at ease off the mat. I think of it as a pragmatic approach to spirituality: not abstract, but deeply useful.

I came to yoga as an athlete who used exercise to work through mental and physical limitations. For a long time, I moved through most things — training, life — with a lot of enthusiasm and a fair amount of impatience. Frustration, anger, sorrow, body image: I pushed through all of it rather than sitting with any of it.

What yoga gave me, slowly and not always gracefully, was a different way of paying attention. My practice and studies have settled a lot of those old habits. I'm grateful every day for my students, my teachers, and the practice itself — for its discipline, its rigor, and the way it keeps teaching me things.