I am a fat, disabled Black woman yoga teacher, and I teach from that body, unapologetically.

I came to the mat when my brain was being stretched in every direction, and I had forgotten how to live in my body. Yoga brought me back. I completed my 200-hour teacher training at Empower Yoga in Milwaukee, studying power, slow flow, yin, and restorative yoga. My teaching practice is challenging, introspective, and rooted in (re)membering the body.

I blend my academic life with my yoga life by bringing yoga to conferences and other collaborative learning spaces, so that wherever people gather to think and work, they also have a way to care for their bodies. I have taught yoga for the Canadian Evaluation Society, CREA IX hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Education, and the ATE PI Conference presented by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in partnership with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

I live with osteoarthritis and I am always learning, always working to build strength and mobility as I age. I honor yoga’s roots without borrowing what isn’t mine. My teaching is human-centered, grounded in my lived experience in a Black body, and leans toward the collective om: we breathe, move, and heal better together.