What you like best about personal training/teaching classes?
Helping people work with their strengths and discover new ones. There’s nothing better than helping people realize the amazing things they can do. Sometimes, the only limitation is having limitations!

Why did you become a trainer/instructor?
I had been living in Mexico City (studying yoga and working) and saw a steady deterioration in my health and well being. I consider the breath to be a good indicator of health, and I could barely climb a set of stairs without huffing and puffing. By the end of my time there, I had become asthmatic. When I realized what had happen to my body, I made a decision to move to the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts. I ended up living there full-time for 4 months, and trained with some of the best, most illustrious yogis in the country.

Favorite type/mode type of training?
I really like training that brings the mind to focus on the breath, and lets movement flow naturally from there. Working with people of all fitness levels, it’s important to incorporate movements that can be adjusted to everyone’s flexibility and energy levels.

Your own athletic accomplishments:
I have been practicing yoga for over ten years now. It’s a practice that’s always changing, and I love it. I have also been training for the past four years in Tae Kwon Do.

Hobbies/What you do when you are not training:
I volunteer at the YWCA and in the Madison school district teaching yoga and meditation. Speaking Spanish, and working on my French. Reading children’s books. Working (slowly and surely) on knitting holiday presents for every member of my family. Going through the Too Good to Miss shelf at the Madison Library.