I started my yoga journey in 2010. After lower back pain from two decades in law enforcement
and the military. I found myself sitting on my bathtub edge to lace up my boots before duty because I couldn’t reach them standing. My wife and I started going to hot yoga and it didn’t take long before I was feeling better. Less than a year later I completed my first marathon and
could then and now touch my toes again with my legs locked.

My practice has been very important to me over the years and I have learned a great deal more about yoga, not just the asanas but the practice. During my law enforcement career, I was able to expose several hundred academy cadets to yoga for a team building exercise and to plant a seed for later in life if they found themselves in need of yoga. Learning to breath in stressful situations and having the ability to remain calm in chaos are just a couple of important tools that I attribute to my practice.

After encouragement from my wife and close friends I attended the 200-hour Teacher Training in January 2021. My hope as a yoga teacher is to expose many more individuals to the amazing practice of yoga and to help those that are already regular practitioners, to continue their own
journeys.