Welcome, friend
A Safer Spaces for Self-Discovery. Welcome to Activated Yoga.
True wellness belongs to everyone. As a trauma-informed facilitator and Accessible Yoga instructor, I specialize in creating supportive, inclusive environments across the Bay Area. Whether through Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin or Restorative practice, my goal is to help you bridge the connection between your mind, body, and spirit, at your own pace.
Defined by a commitment to community-based wellness and an anti-oppression framework, my approach to yoga centers on empowerment and lived authenticity. I understand that navigating mental health and embodied trauma requires a specialized, somatic lens—and a great deal of courage. I am dedicated to providing the resources and supportive environment necessary for you to explore your own personal practice. As we build internal resilience and safety, we grow our capacity for kindness toward ourselves and our world.
I invite you to join me in this work of transformation.
My Story in Many Moving Parts
Yoga gave me stability when I had none.
It offered a path toward clarity, compassion and growth amid grief and change.
Amid a time of real grief and embodied trauma, I committed to the practice, guided by the wisdom and structure of somatic therapy, and my own commitment to healing my own connection with my body.
At twenty-three years old, I fractured my spine rock-climbing. Months of immobility, recovery and pain posed as much mental and physical challenge, as I no longer had access to my main outlet and tool for internal turmoil.
Thus began the real yoga- the meditation, the inner work, the return to scripture, the diving into my role in the grander scheme of things, and my commitment to community healing and empowerment practices.
I recovered, determined to achieve full mobility and surpass my goals as a marathon runner, cyclist, backpacker, mover, shaker…
It is still a journey: the fracture revealed further chronic pain and instability, and as fatigue, injury and fragility mounted, I was diagnosed with Ehlers Danos Syndrom.
Yet again- it was down to me renegotiating my relationship to movement- my “why”
I never abandoned my practice. I left it transform. I allowed seasons of stronger asana, sedentary meditation, community service, learning.
My teaching dramatically shifted into a far more intimate, personalized goal to bring people back into relationship with their body, to offer accessible and adaptable modalities, and to support other people experiencing chronic pain, disability, injury recovery, and/or trauma and grief, to create a supportive, empowering, living practice, ever evolving, ever transformative, ever filled with love.
Activated Yoga
A Home for the Political Yogi
I often speak about dharma — the guiding principle of ethical action and right relationship. For me, dharma is the bridge between the mat and the world. It is the understanding that personal healing and collective liberation are deeply interconnected. If my practice calls me toward compassion, nonviolence, equity, and care, then my yoga must express those values through action.
The personal has always been political for me.
I am queer, and my rights and safety are shaped by policy, culture, and law.
I am a woman, and autonomy over my body remains publicly debated and legislated.
I live with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, making access to healthcare both essential and often difficult to navigate.
I am a survivor, which has deeply informed my understanding of violence, justice, education, and community accountability.
And I am a yoga teacher, which means the wellbeing of my students does not begin and end at the studio door.
Yoga, to me, cannot be separated from the conditions people are living within.
Before fully stepping into teaching, I received my degree in political science and worked in political research and advocacy spaces for several years. Though my work has evolved, my commitment has not. I continue that practice through one-on-one care, community organizing, teaching incarcerated youth, supporting local mutual aid and wellness initiatives, and creating spaces where people can reconnect to themselves and one another through embodied practice.
“Home for the Political Yogi” is rooted in the belief that yoga is a path to being fully present within the world and with each other. It is a space for people who believe healing and justice belong together. A space for questioning, learning, grieving, growing, organizing, resting, and returning to community.
I am committed to the radical work of somatic care and to advocating for a world where we prioritize people over profit, connection over extraction, and collective wellbeing over individual performance.