I started practicing yoga in the early 90’s while attending the School of Visual Arts, from which I graduated in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. For a number of years, I lived and painted in a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn before deciding to return to get my masters degree in Creative Arts Therapy. My interest in that type of therapy came from my own experience as an artist—recognizing the power of the creative process to heal—as well as my yoga practice and my study of Vipassana meditation. I became more interested in harnessing that process to heal than in pursuing a career as an artist.

My yoga practice, as well as my meditation practice, have been both influential and integral to my work as an art therapist. And I was fortunate to have as a mentor the late Arthur Robbins, who headed the Art Therapy department at Pratt and who encouraged me over more than a decade to continue to integrate the body into my work as a therapist. I have taught many workshops and have led programs over the years on both how to integrate yoga into therapeutic settings and how the creative process can be a powerful tool for understanding the subtler aspects of the body, those that can’t always be conveyed in words.

After graduating with my master’s degree, I worked in various settings as a Creative Arts Therapist, and continued to study and teach yoga. My first certification as a yoga teacher was with Alison West in 2001. After studying various forms of yoga for years, I fell in love with the Iyengar Yoga method—for its intelligence, depth, clarity, and creativity as a method. In 2018, I became a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher after going through a rigorous two-year program at the New York Iyengar Yoga Institute.

I continue to paint in my home studio in Park Slope Brooklyn as well as study and teach weekly Iyengar Yoga classes. I am currently working on developing workshops and programs for the coming year, that combine the healing benefits of these two modalities For more information on weekly classes, upcoming workshops and retreats please visit my workshop/weekly classes/retreat page.