Luminous beings we are, not this crude matter. -Yoda

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Hey babes! My name is Lindsay and I’m honored to share my story with you - here, on the mat, or 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 so 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 ten years later, I’m still an eager student.

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. And in February of 2022, I completed my 300hr Yoga + Leadership certification, which focused yogic philosophy and nervous system regulation through somatic bodywork. 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 from my own experience. If I can find healing through the medium of yoga, others can too - and this is why I teach.

When I’m not on the mat, I’m somewhere in nature - or nestled in a nook, with my nose in a book. A voracious reader and self-designated bibliophile, 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.

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