Hi, I am Rachel.
I have been practicing yoga since 2008, but my journey toward teaching started in 2018, when a sports injury forced me to dial back my athletic lifestyle.
Yoga emerged in my life as a saving grace—a style of movement I could study when all other sports were inaccessible. And through practicing yoga, I made a full recovery.
By practice in balance and stability; core strength and flexibility; breathwork and meditation; I developed new levels of body awareness, self-confidence, and adaptability, which helped me heal.
I hold a 200-RYT Certification with a Vinyasa focus from Pure Yoga. Yoga has elevated the quality of my life in many ways; and opened up for me many new dimensions of experience with physical and mental exercise.
I enjoy teaching all ages and skill levels. One of the great joys of teachings is getting to observe the ideas, moods, and energies that students bring to their own practices. In my classes, I try to make space for all of it—power and stillness—and every effort in between.
Always a student, I also practice ceramic art and pottery. I have written for The Huffington Post, NPR Books, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, and Narratively.
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Photo by: Julie Wilhite @ The Yoga Common