YOGA*SMITH

About Me

I am a KRI-certified Level 2 Kundalini yoga instructor with 10 years of experience.  I began my practice 15 years ago at The Awareness Center in Pasadena and trained with Dr. Santokh Singh Khalsa and Wahe Guru Kaur.

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My first opportunity to teach at The Awareness Center was called a community class.  From the start, it has been my mission to promote a sense of community and comradery every time I teach.  The Sanskrit definition of yoga is “union” or “connection”.  Through practice we can experience a joyful connection to our higher self and to the world around us.

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I fell in love with Kundalini yoga in the first class I took.  It was an early morning class (7 am!) and I did not want to get up just to try yoga.  But that first class hooked me.  At the time it didn’t seem to be the breathing, stretching, and the mantra’s we chanted that worked.  I fell for the deep relaxation.  It felt so wonderful that I kept going once a week for several years.  As time went on, I started to get curious about why Kundalini made me feel so good.  I wanted to know the secrets to the practice.  Time and unemployment led me to take teacher training.  And here I am 10 years later, teaching as many classes as I can to share with people how good the practice really is.