I grew up in a Christian home, and had a vision of graduating college with excellent grades, and landing a secure corporate job. About a year into my post-grad life, I started to realize how utterly unhappy I was living a life that revolved exclusively around working during the week and partying hard on the weekends. It was around this time that I took my first Yoga Sculpt class. I instantly became obsessed, and started to attend class almost daily. My obsession led to me making positive lifestyle changes - less partying and drinking, more getting good sleep, more healthy eating, more getting up for yoga on weekends and spending time with friends who cared about doing the same! It wasn’t long before I signed up for teacher training, and discovered my gift and passion for instructing group fitness.

I went through a very hard time emotionally during my mid-twenties when my dad’s health and cognitive functioning started to significantly decline, and he moved into a nursing home. There was an intuitive spiritual life coach who worked at my yoga studio, and I started seeing her for healing and support. She introduced me to meditation, shamanic healing, and working with my Spirit Guides. Working with her was the greatest blessing--it completely changed my life!

As I continued my healing & empowerment journey, I signed up for Power Yoga Teacher Training, to learn more about teaching vinyasa yoga. During the training as my energy was shifting, I found a new job at a holistic health school. While I worked at the holistic health school, I enrolled in an Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine program, and I met a coworker who brought me to her roommate’s spiritual workshop. The roommate, who would soon become my next intuitive coach & teacher, introduced me to the concept that physical disease can be a manifestation of spiritual, emotional, and energetic imbalance--a concept that I was also exploring in Chinese Medicine school. It was during my time with this teacher that I also made a decision to spend my life walking the spiritual path.

After studying Chinese Medicine in a very part-time basis for a couple years, I decided to courageously step in the direction of my dream vision, and so I quit my job and enrolled in the program full-time. This is one of the key teachings I learned from my dad being sick and dying, that we really don’t know how much time we have, so why not fearlessly take the step NOW?

When I was 28, my dad passed away.  I wrote & delivered the eulogy at his funeral, and it was VERY healing for my relationship with him, and for my own confidence and spirituality. Right after my dad died, I quit teaching yoga sculpt, and I decided to start a new fitness journey by becoming a member, and then a coach & full-time team member, at a local fitness studio called Alchemy. Meanwhile in Chinese Medicine school, we started learning how to needle, and I realized I absolutely HATED this part of the practice, and I knew with every cell in my body that I did not wish to continue. I ended up quitting acupuncture school, and attempting to focus on Alchemy.

This part of my journey sent me into serious career confusion, and it prompted me to start studying A LOT of spiritual and metaphysical topics. In an attempt to figure out who I was and what I came here to do, I enrolled in spiritual courses that I would find online. I discovered that I had a gift for making sense of a birth chart, and was able to help others understand themselves better, and more clearly articulate their life purpose, through their astrology chart. During this time, I also became interested in studying yoga a bit deeper. I signed up for a Restorative Yoga training one weekend, and it completely changed my life--relaxation is completely underrated!

In 2019, I found a yoga school through Instagram, and something about it really caught my attention, so I signed up for an advanced yoga teacher training immersion to dive deeper. On one of the last days of the training, a person came and gave us a sound bath. This sound bath was absolutely unforgettable, and planted the seeds for so many epic next steps in my journey!

When I came back from this yoga training, it was really challenging to integrate back into working at the gym. I didn’t want to keep experiencing the jarring jolt of going to a spiritual experience for a few hours or days, and then having to come back into “the real world”. During the training, I realized that my dream was to have my own yoga studio.

During 2020, I decided to pour even more of my time and energy into entrepreneurialism and deeper spiritual & energetic studies. I was in a community of women, and one was a Shamanic & Crystal Reiki Master. I got to know her, and enrolled in her training program to become a certified Master myself. During this program, a spiritual gift of mine opened up, and I began to dive into masculine/feminine energetics, as well as womb healing.

When the world started to open up again in 2021, I embarked on an epic spiritual journey down to Guatemala. During this journey, I felt more alone than I ever had in my entire life. AND at the same time, I felt peaceful, healed, and like I had discovered a hidden gem of paradise.

Right after coming back, I started following Guru Jagat on Instagram after a friend of mine recommended her podcast to me. I had returned back home from Guatemala mid-April, and in mid-May, RA MA, Guru Jagat’s studio, started an annual 40-day practice of chanting a mantra called Long Ek Ong Kars. I heard a sound bite of the mantra playing on one of Guru Jagat’s reels, and it stopped me square in my tracks. It was unlike anything I’d ever heard before: weird, potent, alluring, magnetic. I knew whatever it was, I needed it in my life. I immediately signed up for RA MA TV, did the Kundalini Crash Course, got hooked, and have been practicing ever since.

As soon as I developed a steady, consistent practice, and started working with a coach who also practiced kundalini yoga, my own coaching & mentorship business started to grow VERY quickly, and I ended up with a full book of mentorship clients.

In the fall of 2022, I went to my first in-person RA MA event - Camp Grace. On the very last day, about 20 minutes before we left, I went to the bathroom, and when I was washing my hands,  my teacher Mandev came up and started washing her hands at the sink next to me. She asked how I was feeling, and I said that I felt so sad that the weekend was over. She then said “well are you going to come to Mallorca?” They were heading there about a month later, to host a training. I felt a lightbulb go off in my head the moment she said it, and I realized that I could absolutely go to Mallorca - I mean, what was stopping me? So I said “yeah, I was thinking about it.” She said “Just come!” in the most nonchalant way, that I’ll never forget.

After attending several kundalini yoga trainings & immersions, I realized I wanted to incorporate kundalini yoga practices & teachings into my coaching & mentorship work, but I also knew I needed more time to deepen my own practice, so I could really embody the teachings and have a strong depth of practice in my aura. At this time, a General Manager position opened up at my gym Alchemy. I actually never felt like I could do that job - I felt like I didn’t have what it took. Because of my kundalini practice, I finally felt that I had the capacity, and I had what it took.

A few months after I started my new position as General Manager at Alchemy, I connected with a woman who I’d met at Camp Grace. She teaches women how to read & work with the Akashic Records. I felt the pull to sign up for her training, and also attended a wellness festival she and her husband were hosting in Mexico. At that wellness festival, I participated in a ceremony where I had the opportunity to ask Spirit a question of my choice. I asked how I can live a life that is intensely focused on practicing kundalini yoga and traveling all over the world with my teachers to always be learning more and going deeper. The answer I received was “share the teachings”.

I completed my Akashic Records training a few months later, and during that time it became very clear to me that I’d be leaving the gym at some point in the near future, to pursue building my soul business 2.0.

In Fall 2023, I attended a Healer training with my kundalini yoga teachers, however one of my teachers was experiencing some health issues, and was unable to attend. He went into quite an intense healing journey of his own after that training, and he didn’t teach for several months. This time of missing his energy and teachings prompted me to deeply reflect. I realized that my most favorite moments in my life had been during trainings & immersions with my teachers, and I realized I’d give just about ANYTHING to be with them again, practicing and learning. And in that moment, I realized it was my duty to start offering that to others, to give what I had been given. So I began creating a life and business where I could do that!

I hosted my first pop-up kundalini yoga & meditation class on January 28th at my neighborhood coffee shop, and to my surprise, 15 people signed up! This was the birth of Golden Ray Yoga & Healing. I wanted to keep the momentum going, so I started to plan a class for February as well. I found the perfect space to rent, and as I was planning this event, I learned that the woman who had leased the space for 10 years, was ending her lease. The landlord of the space approached me and said that if I wanted to take my yoga business seriously, he’d lease me the space. I decided to take the plunge, and by the end of February, the space was mine!

A few months after opening Golden Ray, I completed a sound healing certification, and began offering sound baths, in addition to kundalini yoga & meditation. It’s my greatest honor to welcome you into the world of Golden Ray Yoga & Healing, and it is my prayer that these tools, practices & transformative experiences enhance your inner & outer radiance, deepen & develop your self- and soul-connection, and help you actualize your highest potential. Sat Nam!