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Heather first turned to yoga as a path to healing from physical injury while living in Vietnam. Like a seed taking root, her simple fifteen-minute home practice grew. Curiosity and a desire to learn more, soon led her to enroll in an intensive yoga retreat in the south of Thailand. While on retreat, Heather stepped fully into the flow, and never looked back. She graduated from her first teacher training in India, where she studied the Ashtanga Primary Series with Iyengar-style props and modifications. Since then, she has completed a second teacher training with a focus on biomechanics and alignment, and how they directly relate to long-term sustainability in yoga asana practice.

Heather believes that our willingness and efforts to show up – to our mats and to our lives – are an embodiment of our dedication to our asana practice. It’s difficult at times, it’s uncomfortable at times, it’s aggravating at times. It’s also illuminating and invigorating; a physical experience that allows us to get close in with our personal strength, our capacity for poise, and our movement towards balance – both on and off the mat. Our asana practice gives us the opportunity to experience the expansiveness of flow, of surrender, and of letting go.

Whether teaching Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin, or Restorative-style practices, Heather seeks to weave elements of mindfulness and reconnection to Self throughout the physical practice of asana. She believes that magic abounds when we yoke our minds to body and breath. When not teaching yoga, Heather can be found studying and practicing… YOGA! She is currently in the process of completing an advanced teacher training in Yoga Therapy with Sarahjoy Marsh.