About

Who I am: 

yogini

Forrest Yoga teacher

redhead

friend

traveler 

 
 
 

Okay, for more details, here’s my bio:
 
Elizabeth believes it is never too late to be what we might have been. After a lifetime of travel, she found that home is where the yoga mat is. At the age of ten, Elizabeth moved from a small farm in Indiana to downtown Tokyo, Japan and has never really stopped moving since. She started yoga to try and change herself — to force a round peg into some pretty square holes — and found instead that yoga changed her whole life by putting her on the road to healing addiction, bulimia and it gave her back her spirit.

So she also believes in gratitude, and is grateful for the privilege of playing on the mat on four continents with some of the best teachers in the world, including Ana Forrest, David Swenson, Dharma Mittra, Kasthaub Desikachar and her fellow students. Furthermore, she believes in the power of pairs, holding two MA degrees from Georgetown University and two 200 hour yoga teaching certifications.

Elizabeth did her first Ashtanga-based teacher training at Union Yoga in Edinburgh, commuting in from Germany while working as a counterproliferation/counterterrorism planner for the US Air Force. (Yep, really. She can’t believe it now either.) The only thing better than hearing Sanskrit in a Scottish accent was when Ana Forrest came for a week and completely turned the world upside down. After a pilgrimage to India to feel, see and taste the roots of the practice, Elizabeth moved back to the US, completed Ana’s Forrest Yoga Teacher Training and nothing has ever been the same in the best of all possible ways.

Finally, most importantly, she believes that the quest for enlightenment and healing should come with a lot of laughs. If she can share with you even a fraction of what yoga has done for her, it will fulfill her purpose and delight her heart. She can’t wait to meet you on the mat!