Meet your Instructor - Betty

Over the course of my life yoga came in and out of my life and the reasons I engaged in it changed as well. I can remember when my kids were babies committing to just one posture as I walked down the hall to respond to a crying baby. That was all it could be some days. Now with my babies launched out into the world, I have the time and energy to bring yoga fully back into my life.

As a mental health therapist my journey has been somewhat the same over the last 20 years—moving from a very “heady” and analytical approach experiencing the mind and body as separate to a more integrated and embodied approach. Before completing the 200 hour teacher training I had completed a 100 hour Yoga for Mental Health and a 15 hour Yin Yoga training that helped support this integrated, embodied and now trauma informed approach I work with clients on. As a trained birth doula, learning in a new way a mindful approach to discovering and supporting your own body and practice while using self-compassion as the groundwork. These days yoga informs much of my work as a doula and therapist…and vice versa.

Yoga to me is a continual learning about the Self. In my fifties now, I use this practice to cultivate compassion and explore my edge—choosing to stay there on some days and to redefine myself on others. And I look forward to sharing this process of learning, compassion and exploring with you as we grow.