Hi, I am Rachel.
I have been practicing yoga for a long time, and I’ve been teaching for more than a year. I completed my 200-RYT Certification (with a Vinyasa focus) from Pure Yoga in 2024, and I am on track to complete my 300-RYT from Yo-Bk.
My journey toward teaching started when a sports injury forced me to dial back my active lifestyle. Yoga emerged in my life as a saving grace—a style of movement I could study when all other athletics were inaccessible. And through practicing yoga (strengthening the mind-body connection), I healed.
As a former English major, I find myself drawn to the philosophy and poetry behind the yoga tradition—Sanskrit language, Hindu mythology, and the many great conversations about morality and the meaning of life that can be discovered inside the Bhagavad Gita.
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 even starting singing and playing music again, thanks to my passion for the study of yoga.) This type of work always comes back to the breath.
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