When I started practicing yoga, in 1999, I was young and wanted to jump around on my mat. I loved the way the poses made me feel. When one of my teachers suggested that it was time for me to explore Pranayama (meditative breathing) I was underwhelmed because it didn’t seem as exciting as complicated…

My hope for my students is that they learn more quickly than me! It has taken me a long time to internalize the purpose of yoga: to integrate the body-mind-breath connection for the purpose of stilling the consciousness. When I started doing yoga I was 24 years old. I was immediately taken by the poses…