Yoga Nidra · San Francisco & online

Rest is not earned.

I teach people how to rest — through Yoga Nidra, restorative, and slow vinyasa. If you can't switch off, you're not behind. You've just never been taught the other half of the practice.

The practice

Three ways in

Yoga Nidra

Guided rest, lying down

Forty minutes of structured non-sleep deep rest. No movement, no experience needed, nothing to get right. You lie down and I do the rest of the work.

Sleep · burnout · recovery
Restorative

Held shapes, long holds

Supported postures held for several minutes at a time, with props doing the effort so your nervous system doesn't have to.

Stress · injury · overload
Slow vinyasa

Movement that ends in stillness

Alignment-based sequencing built around a single idea, always closing with pranayama and a long rest. Movement as the way in, not the point.

All levels welcome

Free library

Practice tonight

Recorded Yoga Nidra in four lengths, so there's one that fits whatever is left of your evening.

Upcoming

Where to find me

TUE AUG 4
Yoga Nidra
Online
7:30pm · 40 min
SUN AUG 9
Restorative & Nidra
Mission District
5:00pm · 75 min
TUE AUG 11
Yoga Nidra
Online
7:30pm · 40 min
SAT AUG 15
Rest workshop
Bernal Heights
2:00pm · 3 hrs

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Portrait

About

I came to this backwards

I spent about ten years as a model — a decade of relating to my body as something to be looked at. Yoga gave me the opposite: a body I could feel from the inside, that wasn't a problem to be fixed.

I found the practice through meditation and recovery work before I found it through asana, and what I kept noticing is that everyone teaches effort and almost nobody teaches rest. People are exhausted, and the wellness industry keeps selling them one more thing to do about it.

So that's what I teach. I want you to leave feeling like something loosened — not like you performed well.

  • RYS-200 · Folk Yoga School, San Francisco
  • CCAR Recovery Coach Academy
  • Certified Meditation Teacher
  • Nonviolent Communication · Bay Area NVC

Journal

Writing

Newsletter

One email a month

Where I'm teaching, one piece of writing, and one new recorded rest practice. That's the whole thing.