In an effort to find my dreams, I have gone in two different directions in my adult life.   My life has always been filled with children.  At a very young age, I began helping at my church's vacation bible school and nursery.  At 16, I traveled to New Hampshire to begin working with kids at Camp Calumet.  I spent one summer as a camp director for South Suburban Recreation Center. When applying for school, I knew I would end up working with children and applied for the Elementary Education programs at Colorado schools. Once I began college at the University of Colorado, I sought out preschools looking for help and then spent my extra hours working for TinyMinders and Boulder Day Nursery.  For the past few years I have taught elementary school north of Denver. Even though I took great pleasure in watching the lightbulb go off in a child's head and joy fill their eyes, I spent the remainder of my day searching out my yoga practice. 

Yoga has also been a big part of my life.  I began with Bikram yoga 10 years ago and just fell in love.  For the past 5 years, I have practiced daily at Core Power Yoga or anywhere else I could take a class.  During the summer of 2007, I recieved my  yoga teaching certification through Core Power Yoga in Denver.  This accomplishment brought me lots of joy and personal growth.  Over the next year, I began to dream of how to link these two loves together.  Yoga for Young Warriors is the product of this dream.  It is intended to honor a child's spirit through yoga.  I, too, am a young spirit and am anxious to get to know children through a new avenue...movement!