Asana in the City · Yoga & embodied learning
Certified yoga teaching and teacher training. The same conviction runs through it and through the classroom: people can't learn — can't take the risk of being wrong out loud — until their nervous system feels safe enough to try.
The credentials
I'm a certified yoga teacher with both 200-hour and 300-hour teacher training completed — the second focused on vinyasa practice — alongside continued study in trauma-informed teaching and yoga philosophy. I've taught classes in studios and led practice everywhere from city rooftops to teacher-training intensives abroad.
Teacher training is itself a form of teaching the teachers: sequencing, cueing, anatomy, the philosophy underneath the postures, and how to hold a room of people through discomfort safely. The skills transfer directly to professional development for educators.
Why it belongs here
A student in fight-or-flight cannot do close reading. A classroom that doesn't feel safe cannot hold a real discussion. Before any content lands, the body has to be regulated enough to stay curious instead of defensive.
Yoga is where I learned this in the most direct way — watching breath, attention, and safety determine whether a person can actually be present. It's the same dynamic that decides whether a classroom becomes a place for genuine thinking or just compliance.
It's also why I'm skeptical of education technology that ramps up pressure and surveillance. The conditions for learning are relational and embodied first. Any tool — including AI — has to respect that or it works against the very thing it claims to serve.
The throughline
Whether the room is a studio or a Bronx classroom, the job is the same: create the conditions in which a person feels safe enough to pay real attention — and then to risk being changed by what they find.