Hi and thanks for welcoming me to the Steemit Community! I'm super excited to be here. I'm a yoga teacher with a passion for travel and spreading peace and goodwill to the world. Since leaving my full time job I've traveled to almost 40 countries and now teach successful yoga classes, teacher training programs and host online yoga classes.
My yoga journey began in 2000 with what we all just saw as a lark. My family had some extra stones laying around and decided to build a labyrinth based on visions my papa, Chris, had from hitch hiking across Europe. Originally thinking it was a little odd, I now see my own path written in the path of the labyrinth. The labyrinth introduced me to years of study on the ways of the world, energy work, European architecture, Knights Templar, and finally to Yoga…
After joining a yoga class in 2007 to ‘stretch’ while training for a half marathon I fell in love. Yoga has since become my life. Joining ‘Yoga for You’ in Morehead City, NC as my home studio I quickly realized the more you know, the more you don’t know, but you are hungry for more! I completed my 200hr YTT in April of 2011 under the direction of Valerie Baltzer E-RYT500. After receiving a scholarship from Transcending Yoga to attend Yoga, Purpose and Action Intensive with Seane Corn, Hala Khouri, and Suzanne Sterling in July 2011 I knew exactly what I wanted to do and my world shifted even more.
“Travel the world, do yoga and remind the world to smile”
In March 2012 I completed my 300 Hour YTT with Valerie and flew the nest, leaving my full time job behind and sauntering to Fiji, New Zealand, Australia… Later to Belize, Canada and now to over 35 countries to teach yoga classes, take yoga classes, for yoga retreats, to explore cultures and simply to see the vast beauty of this place we call earth.
In 2015 while sitting along the Ganges participating in a traditional Arti after dinner with the brothers at a local seminary I was reminded, once again, that I was living on purpose. Returning state side I decided it was time to open my own Yoga School and thus K10Yoga, RYS was born. Now offering Yoga Teacher Training programs at the 200 hour and 300 hour advanced levels to students in Winston Salem, NC which has been an absolute blessing and fulfillment of dharma.
Of course, training never ceases for those now walking the path. I continue my education diving deeper into the works of Nikki Myers and becoming a certified instructor for the Y12SR approach to yoga as complimentary to addiction recovery. Additionally I am also a Facilitator and Facilitator Trainer for The Embody Love Movement, empowering girls and women to celebrate their inner beauty, commit to kindness, and contribute to meaningful change in the world.
In 2017 with an effort to expand my reach I developed an online yoga studio, filming classes along my travels to offer yoga to anyone, anywhere at anytime! Additionally in 2017 K10Yoga CoOp: A Community Yoga Studio was born. An idea that has been manifesting for a while with an understanding that when the time is right, the presentation will be right. The heart behind the CoOp is to offer affordable yoga to an all inclusive population in the Winston Salem area. A place for people to feel connected and safe to explore their own selves through yoga shapes and the breath. A place for people to come home to their bodies and to heal!
When I'm not traveling I find myself either in Gilbert, AZ or in Winston Salem, NC where I am teaching at the CoOp. I'm an ambassador for Off the Mat, Into the World, Y12SR, Yoga & Body Image Coalition, The Embody Love Movement and Jade Yoga Mats!
Follow me for yoga and adventures across the world!