I received a traditional education by getting degrees in literature and writing and a less traditional one working dozens of different jobs. I did everything from shipping potatoes and goat-farming to copy-editing to waitressing to clerking a Christmas village. In 2011, I finally found work that felt aligned. After years of racing in circles around a track as a competitive runner, I arrived at my first yoga class in my hometown outside of Boston. I discovered that Power Yoga offered me a way to channel my intensity without the stress of competing. It also calmed the fluctuations in my mind. At this point, I started my life-long education and training in yoga and working with the mind and body.

After doing my 200-hour yoga teacher training in Colorado, I moved up to Montana looking for a cowboy. In Bozeman, I did a lot of mountaineering and built a strong community teaching Power Yoga at the climbing gym and Inferno Pilates at the hot yoga studio. At an independent high school, I led workshops called Meditation and Mindful Teatime, where we drank tea and studied the non-physical aspects of yoga. I also spent a lot of time writing at the local teahouse, which fed my interest in tea.

In 2019, I returned to New England without a cowboy but with an MFA in Writing and the awareness that publishing books wasn’t entirely my dharma. I wanted to expand my capacity to support people in healing and preventing imbalances in their minds and bodies. I had the feeling that tea would somehow be involved. After another couple of years freelance writing, working odd jobs, and teaching at yoga studios—first in Asheville, North Carolina and then in Burlington, Vermont—I moved to the south of France for a relationship. In France, I started an Ayurvedic Health Coaching Certification program. In 2023, I traveled to Thailand and received a 60-hour Thai Massage training. Finally, in 2025, I returned to Boston to be close to family and start a 750-hour Massage Therapy Licensing Program. 

When I’m not working with the body, I’m painting landscapes, writing for my podcast on mental and physical fitness, trail running, or watching my dog sleep.