A life shaped by study, travel and healing.
My education and my life have always been inseparable.
My journey into self-inquiry deepened while I was training in psychodynamic psychotherapy and learning to understand the relationship between body, mind and spirit. That inquiry eventually brought me to India for my first yoga teacher training and into years of immersive study, practice and teaching.
For nearly a decade I lived and taught in India and across Asia, including Thailand, Nepal, China and Malaysia. I studied within traditional yoga and meditation settings, lived in alternative communities, and learned through daily practice, relationship, culture and experience—not only through formal programs.
The loss of my mother to addiction changed the direction of my life and my work. On the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh, I sat with Swamis and Sanyasi ascetics contemplating grief, death and impermanence. I went searching for a way to understand suffering without turning away from it, and that inquiry remains at the heart of how I teach.
Michael Stone was my teacher and dear mentor. His way of bringing yoga, Buddhist practice, psychotherapy and social engagement into one living conversation profoundly influenced me. He showed me that practice does not ask us to turn away from suffering or from the world, but to meet both with intimacy, responsibility and care. His teachings continue to live inside the way I understand the body, relationship, community and the role of a teacher.
For more than twenty years I have also worked closely with a psychotherapist and mentor. My training in psychodynamic and Gestalt psychotherapy—and my own long relationship with therapy—gave me a language for the places where the body, the unconscious, relationship and spiritual practice meet.
I did not gather these practices to create a brand. I was simply someone searching for healing. When I returned to Canada, I came home again to Toronto—the city where I began teaching in 2002 and where, across the years, I have taught at almost every yoga studio. I had travelled far, but I was not returning to a beginning. I came home carrying a living body of work—not a single method, but a way of weaving movement, breath, inquiry, ritual and relationship into spaces where people feel safe enough to feel.
In 2019, I became one of the founding teachers at Sweat & Tonic, now one of Canada’s largest and leading yoga and wellness studios. Today I teach across all three Toronto locations. It has become my teaching home—the place where the many strands of my work can live together: Open Heart Flow, Inner Power, Flow & Restore — Somatic Release, Yin & Somatic Release, Breath Medicine, Reiki, meditation, nervous-system care and relational healing. The journey did not end when I came home. It found a place to keep becoming.
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