About Us

In late 2005, I was asked to teach yoga one evening at a Mother’s Group meeting at our church. That single class stirred up enough interest that the church asked if I would offer an 8-week “Introduction to Yoga” class. Eight weeks later, Yoga With Spirit was born!

Since that time, my mission at Yoga With Spirit has evolved from a studio offering yoga classes to a center offering a broad spectrum of opportunities to explore and develop your spiritual self. I find myself surrounded by a wonderful, diverse community of students and clients ranging in age from 20–80 and spreading from suburban Philadelphia across the whole country. I wake up every morning grateful that I have the opportunity to do this work!

I discovered yoga when my third child was still a baby. I was searching for a way to reclaim my body as my own. I was as surprised as could be to find the true gifts of yoga lay in the discovery of my spirit. Needless to say, very quickly, yoga went from my weekly two hours of “me-time” to a life-changing passion. It is my great joy to be able to share the gift of yoga, its philosophy and spirituality with others.

I am a certified spiritual director and bring the gift of deep listening to all of my work whether in spiritual direction sessions, my Yoga and Philosophy course in the philosophy department at a local, highly selective university, private yoga lessons or in my Yoga Alliance certified 200 and 500-hour teacher training program.

I am also a “yoga writer.” In addition to my weekly essays, Yoga Thoughts, I co-authored a book on the spirituality of yoga called Faith With A Twist. I also edited a book on anatomy and yoga.

Our lives today move so quickly and are so full of activity that we need to be still more than ever. We need to set aside the time to reconnect with ourselves – our minds, our bodies, and our spirits. When we set aside the time for our practices – movement, breath, meditation – in some amazing way we are always able to find the time for everything else in our lives!

Yoga is truly a gift that gives back – to you and to all the people who fill your life. It would be my honor to give that gift to you.

One of my favorite jobs is teaching yoga and philosophy to undergraduate students at a highly regarded university in the United States. The opportunity to present the physical and spiritual practices of yoga to students simultaneously is a rare and wonderful thing for a yoga instructor. Until I began teaching this class, I only had the chance to do a “deep dive” into the “rest of yoga” with my teacher training students.

It has been invigorating to watch yoga’s philosophy transform the lives of students who are not hoping to become “professional yogis.” Indeed, most of my university students are brand new to the practice yet are touched as deeply by yoga’s wisdom as my more experienced students. The opportunity to witness the accessibility of yoga’s “off the mat” gifts when its wisdom is taught in tandem with the physical practice has increased my passion for sharing the full practice of yoga into a world where busy-ness and distraction consistently thwart contemplation, mindfulness, self-knowledge, and contentment.

I believe the power of my university course is it equally emphasizes the physical practice of yoga (asana and pranayama) and the philosophical (the yamas and the niyamas). Unrolling a yoga mat each day provides us with a safe space to practice the ideas and concepts presented by the yamas and niyamas. The more we practice with ideas such as non-violence, moderation, self-study and surrender on our yoga mats, the more likely it is that we will think thoughts, make choices and take actions in life that follow these same principles.

In short, for yoga to become the transformative practice that it is, we must practice all of the limbs. When we do, even beginners will notice that they are living more like the people they hope to be than they ever were before.