I am the founder of SONDER ℠ a yoga studio and school where belonging and self responsibility are at the heart of our culture. C-IAYT candidate through The Mindfulness Center.

My yoga bio is a walkabout story of owning up, complete surrender, and falling in step with the guides who miraculously lit my path. I first read the book Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, because it was required reading in my 8th grade English class way back in 1988. The novel opened a curiosity in me that in many ways still presses me forward. But back then I didn’t have the awareness to recognize where the compass was pointing me. I chose to study and work in art, then cooking, then fitness and wellness. I married a diplomat and moved around Europe raising our 3 kids. I looked like someone who ‘had it all figured out’ but was deeply disconnected. My internal star was in a different galaxy and I knew it. That’s where my yoga st...