PEARL AND STONE - YOGA
YOGA AS A WAY OF LIFE
Yoga has been part of my life for nearly two decades and part of my work as a teacher since 2009. What began as a physical practice gradually became a way of approaching movement, creativity, teaching, and everyday life with greater awareness and intention.
My teaching is rooted in Power Vinyasa, with an emphasis on strength, intelligent sequencing, functional movement, and breath-led flow. I love creating classes that are physically challenging while still feeling fluid, thoughtful, and sustainable.
The same qualities that guide me as a yoga teacher, presence, patience, curiosity, and authenticity, continue to shape both my personal practice and my work as an artist.
HOW IT BEGAN
I completed my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in San Diego in 2009 and began teaching shortly afterward. My early years of teaching were grounded in heated Power Yoga and Vinyasa, establishing the strong, movement-focused foundation that continues to influence my classes today.
Over the past 15+ years, I have taught in San Diego, La Jolla, Flagstaff, and the San Francisco Bay Area across boutique yoga studios, university programs, teacher-training environments, community spaces, and private sessions.
My experience includes teaching heated Power Yoga at CorePower Yoga and Sol Yoga, serving as an Assistant Teacher Trainer for a Yoga Alliance-registered 200-hour teacher training, and teaching as part-time faculty in the Health & Fitness Department at Northern Arizona University. I currently teach in Oakland.
Although my teaching has evolved over the years, my intention has remained the same: to create a welcoming space where students feel supported, challenged, and encouraged to explore what they are capable of.
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
I believe strength and mindfulness belong in the same practice.
My classes are thoughtfully sequenced to build progressively, combining purposeful strength-building, functional mobility, repetition, and fluid transitions with breath-led movement. I want students to feel challenged, but I also want the practice to feel intelligent and sustainable.
Yoga is not about achieving the perfect pose. It is about developing awareness, building resilience, and learning how to move with greater intention.
I encourage students to work with curiosity rather than comparison—to challenge themselves while respecting the body they bring to the mat each day.
CREATIVITY THROUGH MOVEMENT
The practices of yoga and jewelry design have never felt separate to me.
Both begin with patience. Both require attention to detail, an understanding of structure and balance, and the willingness to let something develop one step at a time.
Sequencing a class is its own creative process. Movement, repetition, breath, pacing, transitions, and music come together to create an experience that is more than the individual pieces.
That same mindfulness and creative instinct naturally follow me into the studio, where every Pearl & Stone design is made by hand and develops through its own process of movement, balance, and composition.
In many ways, yoga became the unexpected path that led me to becoming a jewelry designer.
MY CLASSES
“I teach a strong, fluid, breath-led Power Vinyasa designed to create a flow-state experience. Cadence, timing and rhythm are really important to me. My sequencing builds progressively, and I use concise, deliberate cues so that once students understand the movement, I can get out of their way and let them practice. Music supports that progression, building with the physical intensity and becoming more spacious as the class comes down. For me, that's where the mindfulness happens: through complete engagement with breath and movement.”
My teaching is rooted primarily in Power Vinyasa and Vinyasa Flow. Classes emphasize strength, functional movement, intelligent sequencing, and breath-led transitions, with sequences that build progressively and allow students to develop both physical strength and greater body awareness.
Music is an important part of the experience. I create curated playlists that support the pacing and energy of a class.
While strong Vinyasa is at the heart of my teaching, years of experience across different settings and student populations have also given me a broad teaching range, from dynamic Power Yoga to slower, restorative practices.
Classes include:
● Powerful Vinyasa
● Creative Vinyasa Flow
● Mindful Vinyasa
● Hatha Flow
● Flow to Restore
● Yin Yoga
● Curated Music Power Flow
● Private Yoga Sessions
RYT-200 · Teaching since 2009
Teaching experience: Arise Yoga · Northern Arizona University · Northern Arizona Yoga Center · Yoga Revolution · CorePower Yoga · Sol Yoga
Experience includes: Heated Power Yoga · University-Level Instruction · 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training · Vinyasa Flow · Strength & Functional Mobility
A LIFELONG PRACTICE
The longer I practice and teach, the more I appreciate that yoga is not about mastering poses. It’s continuing to learn.
Every teacher remains a student. Every class is different. Every practice offers an opportunity to notice something new, to become stronger, move with greater awareness, or simply experience the body differently that day.
That spirit of curiosity continues to inspire my teaching, my creativity, and the way I move through everyday life.