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As an artist, I have always appreciated beauty, health and spirituality. I started practicing (Iyengar) yoga in 1983, while living in France. In my 40's, adding meditation expanded and deepened my spiritual understanding of yoga. After a 13-year career in jewelry making and painting, I started and ran full-time at yoga studio, Inner Light Yoga in Hurricane, UT. Later, I worked as a yoga and fitness instructor at Red Mountain Resort (Ivins, UT) for 17 years. While at RMR, in 2011, I met Sue Hitzmann (ADD LINK TO HER BIO HERE), the creator of MELT Method*. My continuing studies with Sue have prepared me as an advanced L4 MELT instructor.
After deciding to leave the spa and fitness arena, in 2022, I returned to teaching Yoga and MELT in my local Southern Utah community, where I had lived with my late husband, Ray, since 2001.
I am currently pursuing my 300 hr. advanced yoga teachers training with Tias Little, Prajna Yoga (ADD LINK TO TIAS LITTLE BIO HERE), in Santa Fe, NM. (online and in person), This yoga training focuses on somatic movement and yoga called: SATYA: Somatic Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement. **
In 2025, after experiencing deep family loss, I relocated to the beautiful red rocks of Sedona, which now I call home.
With four decades of firsthand experience in alignment-based yoga, Buddhist studies and meditation, I aim to uplift and inspire you on a joyful journey toward greater calm, ease, relief from chronic pain, improved sleep and healthy digestion. I share powerful healing tools that will support your quality of life and overall well-being - a perfect program for graceful aging with compassion! My teaching empowers each client through the experiential knowledge of alignment-based Pelvic Floor Yoga™, Restorative Yoga and connective tissue hydration and regulation.
In my classes and private sessions, you can expect a warm, compassionate, safe space where healing is possible.
Registered Yoga Teacher, since 2002