My practice sits at the intersection of yoga, neuroscience, and psychology — and it's been shaped by remarkable teachers and thinkers. These are the ones I recommend most often, return to most frequently, and feel grateful to have found.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. I attended his retreats at Omega Institute in 2017 and 2025. His ability to make mindfulness scientifically rigorous without losing its depth is remarkable. What stays with me is his insistence that MBSR is not a relaxation technique — it's a complete reorientation to engaging in our humanness. That distinction quietly runs through everything I teach.

Recommended Reading:

Full Catastrophe Living
Coming to Our Senses

Jill Miller

Creator of Yoga Tune Up and the Roll Model method. I hold her Level 1 certification and have trained with her in advanced immersions in core, hips, and breath since 2013. Jill has a rare gift for making anatomy visceral and accessible — her students don't just learn where muscles are, they feel them. The therapy ball work I bring into workshops and private sessions is drawn directly from her method.

Recommended Reading:

Body by Breath
Roll Model

Bo Forbes

Psychologist, yoga teacher, and researcher whose work on interoception and the nervous system has been deeply influential on my practice. Her podcast episode on body awareness and the brain is linked in Resources and is a great place to start. What I find most valuable in Bo's work is the bridge she builds between clinical psychology and embodied practice — the idea that noticing sensation from the inside out is itself a form of healing.