I had the great fortune of growing up in a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area with two loving, open minded, progressive parents. I took yoga classes from Richard Miller in Mill Valley when I was 7 years old. I remember the sensation of sinking deeper and deeper into the earth as he would count backwards from 10-1 while we were lying in sivasana - corpse pose.

Today, I am a registered yoga teacher, trained modern dancer, certified massage therapist and somatic educator. I have been practicing various Hatha yoga forms for over 14 years and began teaching yoga classes in 2000. I received my formal yoga teacher training from Greenpath Yoga in San Francisco, in addition to collective studies with teachers in the Bay Area and New York City, including David Life, John Berlinsky, Lea Watkins, Peggy Orr and others.

During 2001 and 2002, I lived at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY where I had the opportunity to study with renowned teachers from around the world and be immersed in community, service and personal growth. I have been dancing and teaching dance for many years and graduated from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in NYC in 1998. I am currently collaborating with my husband, Micha Patri to include dance in his project, the Wailing Junk Symphony. I completed the Certified Massage Therapist as Somatic Educator training at Moving on Center in Oakland in 2005.  I have also completed the Whole Birth Yoga Teacher Training with Robin Sale and the Pregnancy Massage training with Mariah Blackwolf and Alive and Well, Institute for Conscious Bodywork.

Over the last few years, I have been working on integrating my experiences in movement, healing and meditation, as practices for myself and as offerings for others. And thus the Karuna Body emerges...