I am a Clinical Ayurveda Specialist and founder of Sheltering Skys Ayurveda. With more than 30 years of experience in yoga and wellness education, I have dedicated my career to helping women, parents, busy professionals, and those already on a healing path reconnect to a more sustainable and grounded approach to health.

Before founding Sheltering Skys Ayurveda in 2022, I co-founded Yoga Garden San Francisco in 2004, helping it grow from a small startup studio into a thriving yoga school and teacher training center that served thousands of students worldwide. Yoga Garden has since rebranded to Folk Yoga and continues to be a leader in the San Francisco yoga community. During my time there, I also developed one of the first Yoga Alliance-recognized prenatal yoga teacher-training programs, helping to establish standards for prenatal yoga education that are now widely used throughout the industry.

My work now brings together decades of teaching experience, clinical Ayurveda training, and a deep respect for the ways yoga and Ayurveda can support women through periods of transition and change. Through personalized Ayurveda consultations, herbal support, and lifestyle guidance, I help clients improve digestion, sleep, immunity, nervous system regulation, and overall vitality while creating practices that are realistic and sustainable within daily life.

My journey into Ayurveda was also deeply personal. After experiencing toxic stress, chronic sleep and digestive issues, and a cancer diagnosis that led to four surgeries in just thirteen months, I knew I needed a different relationship to health and healing. Ayurveda offered not only physical support, but also a renewed sense of steadiness, clarity, and purpose.

That experience continues to inform the way I teach today. Rather than focusing on extremes, quick fixes, or rigid health ideals, my approach emphasizes consistency, self-awareness, and practices that support long-term well-being. I believe people already have much of what they need within them—sometimes they simply need the right framework, guidance, and support to reconnect to it.