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How I Got Here... Doing What I Do. • The truth is... it's been a long road. The short story is... I'm here! and ready to Share.

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This part of my story is just a little bit about about how I found my way into the healing arts with a primary basis in yoga, mindfulness, and creatively engaged holistic living.

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My vocation in the healing, movement, and yogic arts began when I was 14. I had just quit gymnastics because it had become to hard on my growing body. It was painful to practice and painful to think of leaving behind something that had previously helped me feel so free. In the end, I could never really leave it. In 1987 I won the Greater Cincinnati YMCA's volunteer of the year for the time I devoted to helping out around the gym as a volunteer gymnastics teacher and for helping out with our Y's adapted swim program. From the time I was very young, I liked helping people feel better and find greater freedom in their bodies. 

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I continued to teach and coach... gymnastics, swimming, and then as I came to springboard diving... that as well. I became the diving coach for Philipps Swim Club and when our league dropped diving competitions I created lessons and clinics to share the joy of flying and falling. 

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I entered college as an undecided major and took a few years exploring the health sciences, psychology, art therapy, and ultimately ended up graduating with a BFA as a graphic designer. I should have known I needed a more active career but sometimes life takes us where it takes it. After a year behind a desk, life offered new opportunities and I split my time between graphic design and a fitness instructor. As a college athlete, I had loved the process of strength training and became a certified personal trainer myself in 1997. I quickly began stacking up additional trainings and certifications. Having dabbled in a huge variety of exercise & movement modalities, new age & spirit studies, and martial arts; I became dedicated to the practice of holistic yoga in 1998. 

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The "right" yoga teacher makes all the difference in the transmission of the practices - and really - the magic! While we can pick up good ideas and insights with traveling teachers, it is consistent study with a dedicated teacher that allows us the opportunity to clarify and assimilate ideas so that we have an understanding of the true source of the concepts & practices - and - we can more clearly develop our own authentic practices that support us as individuals and allow us to share the ancient teachings in a clear way if we ourselves are teachers. I have been very blessed to have several such teachers. Rosanna Juncos was my first *steady* yoga teacher. I had actually already become a YogaFit teacher but was looking for someone who could share the philosophy of yoga with me from a truly educated place. Rosanna helped me learn to slow down, to listen deeper, and to soften into myself in a way that I had never done before. I soon met Sianna Sherman who appealed to my scientific nature as she shared the Anusara Yoga Style that as well as being a very uplifting type of yoga practice, was based on modern exercise science and functional kinesthics (whether it acknowledged that at the time or not.) Yoga felt like home. It brought together my loves of nature, art, and science and was designed to help us plug into and celebrate the spirit of life - whether we call it grace, or god, or nature.

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Sianna invited me in to a strong community of like minded people. We practiced at a tiny little yoga studio in Newport, Ky which still exists as the Kula Center and at that time was called Elements and was run by a collective of yoga teachers called Earth & Sky Yoga (I think? 21 years ago - my memory has a few holes;-) There I met Shalini Latour who taught me much about the therapeutic aspects of yoga and Wendy Andersen who would soon open Shine Yoga Center in Hyde Park. Wendy became a good friend, teacher, and created the space for yoga practice to expand as one of the first yoga studios in Cincinnati. 

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I could go on. There's a lot left unsaid here.... but it feels like about time to wrap this part of the story up for now. Over the last 20 years, I have continued my wide-ranging studies, practices, certification, and the development of training and coaching programs. Here in 2019 I am an eRYT-500 yoga teacher, an ACE certified Personal Trainer/Health & Wellness Coach/Functional Movement Practitioner/Corrective Exercise Specialist. I am also studied, certified, and experienced in teaching fitness, yoga, mindfulness & meditation for children, pregnant mothers, and those with movement challenges. 

As the lead teacher/owner/director of Shine Yoga & my umbrella company, Flourish Unlimited, it is my greatest hope to hold space for health & healing, personal exploration & evolution, creative self-discovery, personal development & spiritual freedom, and supportive community connections. I maintain Shine Yoga Center for like-minded practitioners who really want to just help people feel good/better in the world. I am happy to teach classes and trainings that allow people to root into personal power and peace in order to cultivate greater harmony in the hearts of the individuals that make up our communities. I am here to help us all Flourish & Shine.