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YOGA and TAI CHI TEACHING
Profile: 
A hopeful, energetic yoga and tai chi teacher facilitating wholeness through the body/mind/energy connection.

YOGA instructor
2006-present. Certified Rest and Renew Teacher. Level 1 Certified iRest Teacher. 500 hour Viniyoga Teacher. Certified Integrated Ayurvedic Practitioner and Advanced Yoga Teacher. E-RYT 500. 200 CYT. YACEP. Domestic Violence Advocate. Retired Certified ParaYoga Instructor. Teaches yoga nidra, yoga therapeutics, restorative, tantra hatha/hatha, meditation, tantra vinyasa, yoga for actors and musicians, prenatal, gentle, intro and basic yoga, pranayama; volunteer teaches domestic violence survivors and prenatal inmates. Leads teacher trainings in Yoga Nidra: Guided Relaxation, and Subtle Body Yoga. Leads workshops on yoga nidra, meditation, intro to tantra, low back and hip therapeutics, sankalpa, restorative, more. Teaches to private clients, and at yogaview, Nature Yoga Studio, East Bank Club. Volunteer teaches to veterans at the VA and to pre-natal inmates at Cook County Jail. Taught at First Ascent, Equinox, Chicago Athletic Clubs, FFC, SoHo House, Moksha Yoga, Tejas Yoga, Soulistic. Taught at BhaktiFest Midwest and Jacob Tree, Serendipity Festival, Wanderlust Yoga in the City, Yoga Rocks the Park, Sukhava Bodhe. Taught in India, Turkey, Australia, South Korea.

Yoga EDUCATION
2020-2022. IAYT Yoga Therapy Viniyoga Training
2018-2019: RYT 500 Hour Teacher Training: Viniyoga 
2018. iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
2017. Yoga Anatomy Training; Yoga Therapy Training Summit; Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
2016. Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma; Vajrayana Buddhist Mudra Yoga; 13 Hour Teacher Training: Trauma-Informed Yoga Training – Yoga, Sexual Violence and the Physiology of Resilience; Tantrik Practices for Women; 20 Hour Teacher Training: Yoga for Seniors
2015. 40 Hour Domestic Violence Advocacy Training; Rest and Renew Restorative Yoga Training
2014. Yoga Nidra Teacher Training; Yoga Anatomy Training
2013-14. RYT 300 Hour Teacher Training: Darshan Center
2013. Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad and Khajaraho, India
2006-2013. RYT 500 Hour Teacher Training: ParaYoga
2012. 95 Hour Teacher Training: Children’s Yoga
2007. CYT 200 Hour Teacher Training: Yogaview Studio; 13.5 Hour Teacher Training: Purna Yoga
2006.14 Day Self Transformation Program: Himalayan Institute
Workshops: Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Gary Kraftsow, Aadil Palkhivala, Shiva Rea, Barbara Benagh, Mitchell Bleier, Anna Forrest, Swami Shankardev, Rolf Solvik, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Dharma Mittra, Leslie Kaminoff, Mark Whitwell, Jim Bennitt, Gabriel Halpern, Breena Geehan, Nicholai Bachman, Saul David Raye, Kia Miller, Nina Rao, Ed Shapiro, James Boag, Chase Bosart, Wendy Doniger, Arjia Rinpoche, Sandra Anderson, Shari Friedriksen, Molly Boeder, Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya, Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., Rod Stryker, Jim Kulakowski, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

Additional Yoga Experience
2010-present. Yoga Teacher at Yoga for Recovery. Volunteer instructs prenatal inmates in Cook County jail. Featured on “Making a Difference” NBC TV.
2009-present. Yoga Teacher: KANWIN. Volunteer instructs adult and child domestic violence survivors.
2013-present.  Writer: Yoga Chicago Magazine
2013-2015. Darshan Center Special Projects Coordinator
2007-2013. ParaYoga Training Administrator, Special Projects Coordinator
2010-2018. Manduka Product Ambassador
2009-2013. Three Minute Egg Product Ambassador at Yoga Journal Conferences

TAI CHI instructor
Present: Teaches to veterans at the VA 
2019-present. Teaches tai chi in Millennium Park at Millennium Park Summer Workouts
2017: Taught taichi and mindful movement at Grateful Yoga
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Tai Chi and Martial Arts EDUCATION
2016-present. Daoist tai chi and meditation at Nine Clouds Studio in Shanghai, China and Zurich, Switzerland
2016-present. Daoist tai chi and meditation at Alternative Health Group
2000-2003. Taught cardio kick boxing at Chang’s Martial Art and Fitness Center
1995-2000. Studied tai chi, chi kung, Shaolin Kung Fu at Iron Fist Kung Fu Studio
1995. Studied tai chi at Stirling Tai Chi Studio 
1973 -1987. Studied Korean martial arts

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