When did you graduate teacher training?
June 2005

Why do you like it hot?
Because yoga’s no fun when it’s cold.

Do you remember your first class?
I hated it! But I made myself go back. I’ve been going ever since.

Why did you become a yoga teacher?
I’ve always believed that one should enjoy what they do for work. Yoga changed my life. It keeps me on track. I want to help others figure that out.

Any tips for new students?
Just relax. It’s all about being comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Hey baby, what’s your sign?
Virgo

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A farmer or Indiana Jones.

Beatles or Elvis?
Elvis

What was your first concert?
Green Day– Dookie

Have you ever fasted?
I’ve done 10 days on the Master Cleanse

How long did it take you to learn to lock your knee?
Knee? I have no knee

What’s your guilty pleasure?
I don’t feel guilty about pleasure

If you were an appliance what would you be?
A blender

Have you ever been to Burning Man?
6X — working on the 7th

What’s the first music you ever bought?
I believe it was Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”

Besides yoga, what do you like to do for fun?
Travel, eat delicious food

What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever done in class?
I’ve fallen on my butt many times, a few head-on collisions

What do you want to gain from your yoga practice?
Patience, eternal youth

Why do you love SF?
It has all of my favorite things… nature, city, ocean, mountains, culture, good food

Why do you love the Mission?
It smells delicious

Favorites:

• Color: Blue
• Animal: Kitties!
• Yoga Pose: standing head to knee
• Restaurants: Magnolia’s, Tu Lan, Taqueria Cancun, the Front Porch
• Bread: the one I bake myself
• Bikram quote: I’d rather have one good cow in the field than a barn full of naughty cows (something like that)
• Least favorite pose: the whole cobra series