I'm Devi, and I help people find rest, recovery and healing through Yin Yoga.
Twenty years ago I was an addict with depression and chronic pain. I turned to yoga for healing, but instead it increased my stress and insecurity because of alignment rules that were designed for very different bodies than mine.
I almost quit until I discovered the intuitive practice of Yin Yoga. I learned to follow my instincts to connect with a deep well of inner resources for healing and transformation. I’m devoted to sharing this approach and helping others, particularly other women over 50.
I've had extensive training and hands-on experience with yin. I've taught tens of thousands of students at yoga studios, I owned my own studio for 10 years, and I've been leading my yin yoga teacher trainings since 2013.
I now teach on my YouTube channel and at The Yin Studio, where my community of yogis follows my programs and classes in yin yoga, somatic yoga and meditation.
My teaching experience
I've taught yoga for over 20 years. I've owned and directed yoga studios. Early in my career I founded Tucson Yoga, a low-cost community yoga studio that has grown into a vibrant downtown institution that served 20,000 students a year before closing down over covid.
I moved in 2009 to join forces with MC Yogi in the San Francisco Bay Area at his studio, Point Reyes Yoga. It was there that I started a yin yoga program and developed my Yin Yoga Teacher Training.
My approach is deeply inspired by the yin yoga and anatomy teachings of Paul Grilley and the tantric meditation teachings of Lorin Roche.
Paul Grilley is the founder of yin yoga who has developed a brilliant system of alignment that's rooted in somatic experience. I was among the first to receive a 500-hour certificate from him.
Lorin Roche offers a beautiful approach to meditation that's based in the Radiance Sutras, a path I am currently obsessed with. I completed a second RYT-200 with him in 2022.
To learn more, check out my online training at The Yin Studio or try a free class at my my YouTube channel.