- Welcome to CHAKRA FLOW UNIVERSITY
My philosophy is simple: You gain total health and wellness by treating not only the physical body but the mind and spirit as well. Easy said, less easily done and impossible to find at your neighborhood gym.
Kid off balance
From a very young age, I was coined the chubby girl. I tried every diet and counted calories, starting at the age of 12. Then in my 20s, I reclaimed my body back and lost 45 pounds by spending hours in the gym and maintaining a rigorous diet. Sound familiar? While it worked, I was working hard and not working smart. My body and self-image continued to keep me from true happiness and a sense of contentment that I knew was possible, yet it eluded me.My dream came true in June 2018 when I opened my own Yoga School, Chakra Flow University. I have now graduated a total of 50 teachers from my program. Below is some of the feedback I've received:
Oh, baby
Ohh Baby! In my early 30s, after giving birth to two healthy kids only 18 months apart, I had gained 70 pounds and spending hours at the gym was no longer an option. This is when I came back to a practice I had started many years ago, Yoga, and looked for a healthier way to maintain a good balance and become the woman and mother I knew I could be.
On a mission
At this time my soul-searching led me to take the 200HR YTT from the World Renowned Yoga Center, Laughing Lotus NYC, directed by Dana Trixie Flynn. This is when I was also introduced to Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga.As I was looking for a way to balance my physical body, I realized the work was also in my mind and my spirit. Yoga and Ayurveda helped to unite these aspects of myself and I came to recognize I was always whole and had just forgotten, Yoga helped me remember.My final path to health felt like a giant jigsaw puzzle with lots of missing pieces. As the pieces revealed themselves - nutrition, physical strength, mental flexibility, emotional wellness and spirituality, all pillars of Yoga and Ayurveda, - I began to lose the heaviness in both my physical and emotional body, in an almost effortless manner that I had never experienced before.Today, my life's mission and passion is to share these ancient practices and sciences with my students and to empower them to gain optimal health and well being.