Hey babes! My name is Lindsay and I’m honored to share my story with you - here, on the mat, and in person. I’m a teacher, practitioner, and student of yoga in the raddest and baddest, fast-growing city - Austin, Texas.

My first experience with yoga was in 2008 at a Bikrim studio in Old Town, Scottsdale. I was an undergrad at ASU and understood yoga as some hip, California hippie thing - which felt and sounded cool to a PNW gal like me. At the time, I thought Bikrim was the way to yoga, so I pushed myself through 90 minutes of near-heat exhaustion and ignored the questionable cleanliness of that berber carpet - why? Because yoga.

In 2010 I moved from Phoenix to Austin, and while searching my new city for a place to tree-pose in 100+ degrees, I found a tiny yoga house offering something I’d never heard of before: vinyasa. Breath to movement, freedom of expression - the ballerina in me was seen. I fell in love with the flow and fifteen years later, I’m still an eager student. Alongside yoga, I’m a powerlifter and balance my practice with strength training. In 2019 I competed in the RPS Texas Powerlifting Meet and still maintain a dedicated lift routine today. On their own, I believe strength and flexibility are irrelevant - together? They’re what make us mobile and resilient, and power our body’s movement. When I feel strong in my body I feel strong emotionally, and capable of handling any hand life deals me.

I completed my first 200 hour certification in June of 2019, studying alignment vinyasa under Gioconda Parker. I returned as her student that fall, completing a second 200 hour program in the lunar arts of yin + restorative + yoga nidra. In February of 2022 I completed my 300hr Yoga + Leadership certification, a year-long program which focused on yogic philosophy and nervous system regulation through the lens of breath work, orientation, somatic sequencing, and language.

My most powerful takeaway from my year of training was understanding how to navigate my own system. I learned to track sensation as it arose in my body, and developed awareness of my system’s preferred stress patterns (restlessness and an inability to sit still); I learned about titration, and how and when to introduce positive stress as a way to self-regulate; I studied my breath and learned how to use this built in tool, which we all possess, to ground myself when I feel the up-regulation of anxiety or fear, to find and to feel presence, to connect with my body and to power its movement. Our body is an incredible piece of machinery and movement patterns fascinate me. This curiosity, coupled with what I understand as a powerlifter and what I learned from my yoga school anatomy teacher, led me to the system of Functional Range Conditioning and in 2024 I completed my first certification with them, too.

My personal roots with yoga are through the lens of trauma and I’ve dedicated my education to understanding this mind + body link; I have an intimate relationship with recovery and draw inspiration for how I hold space, and how I show up as a teacher from personal experiences on my own journey. If I can find healing through the medium of yoga, others can too - and this is why I teach.

When I’m not on my mat, I’m somewhere in nature or curled up with my Rottweiler and a really great book. I’m a voracious reader and self-designated bibliophile, and literature lights me on fire. I’m a writer by trade and an author by profession - a mom, a girlfriend, aspiring cosmologist, music enthusiast, and amateur chef.