I want to start by saying I support all races, cultures, and LGBTQAI+ bodies and I hold a safe space. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I am only human. We all have trauma in our past; it's how we grow from that trauma knowledge and hurt that makes us who we are today. I don’t want to share that trauma to the whole world, but if you would like to know what I’ve been through I am an open book.
I would like to say that in 2018 I put myself in a mental hospital for 5 days because I didn't feel safe with myself. Since August of 2019 I have been living at my parents house, and the increase of housing doesn’t help with moving out. Living here has been beneficial for my mental health because I found out that I can not go more than 4 days without someone in the same house as me to talk to.
My college career took many turns, but I ended up with an undergraduate degree in Liberal Studies focused on Psychology and Sociology, from University of Missouri - St. Louis, in December 2020. I find the human body so interesting! In 2022 I received my masters from Grand Canyon University, online, in Special Education Mild to Moderate Disabilities. With that degree I have my teaching certification in Arizona, USA. Unfortunately, in the middle of working on my masters I received a concussion from a student I was working with.
It turned my world upside down.
Because of the concussion I had intense light sensitivity, my depression was gone, I felt like my empathy went from 1,000% to 10%, and I had to reteach myself social skills. I also lost the feeling of being a good teacher. I know I can teach and I know I would be successful at it, but mentally I do not have the same care as I had before. So I took myself out of the school system, after I student taught.
My mental health has never been better. Since I left I’ve been learning about myself and figuring out how to work with the Universe, instead of how I want to live.
In March of 2023, I started my yoga journey. During that month I participated in a hybrid training of Ganja Yoga with the wonderful Dee Dussault. I became 200hr Vinyasa certified in May, 2023, and since then I have added on many more certifications: kid yoga, meditation, yin yoga, chair yoga, reiki levels I and II, and currently working on my sex education certificate.
What am I doing now?
Right now I am still dealing with light sensitivity but I'm finally living for me.
I create personalized yoga sequences or morning/evening 5 min flows. Can look me up on Fiverr.
I just started a few kids yoga classes around the STL area. Every first Saturday at 10am I am in Clayton, MO across from the Galleria Mall!
I have a kids yoga class in St. Peters starting Thursday January 4th, at 6pm. Hour long classes.
I just started adding chair yoga at senior assisted living facilities. Starting in November I am working every second Thursday at Oak Pointe in Washington, MO.
I can help guide you with mental health, but please know I am not a licensed therapist, all I can do is support and refer (if need be).
I can help guide you with sexual education. This could be helping you discuss communication skills with your children, explain discussing age appropriate sex knowledge so your children will not be taken advantage of in anyway, discuss LGBTQIA+ lifestyles (gender vs sex), or sex in it's purest form and what do you consider sex?
I also can help assist you educationally or socially with special "disability" needs. Disability has such a negative tone to it, I'd prefer "abilities".
Go to the specific pages to learn more! My yoga page has more detail on what I offer 😁