I first was exposed to yoga as a kid. During the 70's my mother practiced yoga at a local studio where I grew up in the Northeastern part of the US. Later in life, I came to yoga the way a lot of people in recovery do — looking for something that worked on the inside, not just the outside. What I found was a practice with more depth than I expected: philosophy, breath, stillness, and a framework for living that mapped almost exactly onto what I was already learning in recovery.

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras describe the practice of stilling the fluctuations of the mind. If you’ve ever sat with a craving, a resentment, or the 2 AM version of your own thoughts, you know exactly what that means. Yoga didn’t give me something new. It gave me language for something I was already doing.

I completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training and became a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200) through Yoga Alliance (Finding Balance Yoga in Hutto) in January 2026. I’m a 1970 model and 100% GenX. Better late than never, and right on time.

I am still part of corporate America but have integrated Yoga into my life and made room to share and guide other’s as they practice. I share my life with my wonderful wife of 16 years, our amazing daughter who is 9, and our very needy Weimaraners. My teaching style is accessible, grounded, and trauma-informed. That means I design classes for real bodies with real histories — not for Instagram, not for advanced practitioners, not for people who need to prove anything to anyone. I believe the mat is a place of honest meeting. You bring what you have that day. We work with it. No performance required.