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WELCOME!

My name is Beth. I live in Washington, DC with my husband Bob and our kittens Oliver and Maple.

I teach yoga classes and offer private sessions, and I’m currently in training to become a certified yoga therapist.

I help people of all ages learn to move better, get out of pain, and connect with their bodies. I help people get to know themselves on a deeper level, through the physical practice of yoga.

My students include yoga beginners and seasoned yogis who are interested in finding a safer, more sustainable way to practice.

My classes will help you slow down enough to get curious about your body and your breath. As you build awareness, you’ll start to build strength and increase your range of movement, safely.

I invite you to join me for a practice.

Your first class is on me. Just share your email address and I’ll send you a coupon code you can use to sign up for your first online class.

My students say that over time, they start to notice changes.

They start to get more interested in how their bodies work. They start to notice nuances and patterns. They discover that they have more choices in how they move, and they find ways to move with less effort, and with more ease. They discover that they can access a whole universe of subtle sensation outside of reductive models like the pain scale. They start to feel more connected to their bodies. They start to feel more connected to themselves. They start to move better and with less pain.

Here’s a little more about me (and how I got here).

My yoga journey began when I was in my early forties.

I was a busy professional, dealing with all the usual stressors, and looking for relief from chronic back pain. Yoga helped me find that and much much more: the joyful sense of body awareness I’d been missing for too long; a steady practice to keep me grounded; the means to bring my best self forward (on good days). After a while, somehow yoga became more a way of living than an activity.

Over time yoga helped me find the resilience to cope with loss and the courage to make some big life changes.

In 2018 I hit the brakes on my career as an academic librarian, took my first yoga teacher training, and began teaching at a local gym. That led to a full program of classes at DC yoga studios and weekly workplace classes at iconic DC locations like the National Zoo, the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, and the World Bank.

And many more trainings - in chair yoga, the neuroscience of yoga, yoga for depression and anxiety, trauma informed yoga, and an 800 training and practicum in yoga therapy.

When you join me for classes, we see and hear each other. We breathe and move and laugh together. We release expectations. Whatever comes up, we experience it together, in the present moment. That’s the yoga.

A few more things:

  • I am enrolled in an 800 hour yoga therapy training program and I’ll complete my certification. with the International Association of Yoga Therapists in March 2024!

  • I am a 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School.

  • I trained and am certified in in the Prana Flow tradition of Shiva Rea.

  • I am CPR/AED/Adult First Aid certified

  • I’m fully insured for remote and in-person trainings

  • And of course I am fully vaccinated and boosted!

Squee, Albert, and Clovis moving from Minnesota to Washington, D.C., 2012.

When you support my business:

When you support my business, you support the causes and organizations that I support with my time and money.

As a yoga practitioner, you have many choices about how to spend your yoga dollars. I want you to make an informed choice when you choose to practice with me.

I regularly contribute my time and class fees to the following organizations: