Welcome! I'm Amy, a longtime New Yorker, mom of 2 bodhisattvas who is growing too fast, yogi, meditator, teacher, student, Italian speaker to my lovely, Italian hubby, and, drumroll please.....new studio owner! I spent my first years in New York as a dancer, and theater artist, some of those years overlapping with my growing interest in yoga and Buddhism. Once introduced to yoga I immediately connected yoga's union of movement and meditation as the experience that interested me most in dance - how the physical body could be an instrument for opening, nurturing, and getting to know our minds as well as shedding light onto our connection with each other. It wasn’t until my first class with yoga teacher Cyndi Lee at her OM Yoga Center in downtown NYC, which fused luscious vinyasa flow with Iyengar alignment and Buddhist philosophy, that my life took a different direction.
I trained to teach yoga at OM Yoga Center in 2002 with no intention of actually teaching yoga, and have been teaching ever since! In the past few years, my attention has focused on teaching mindfulness to children and teens and I have been working with and adapting curriculum to suit different needs. Along with teaching mindfulness to school children in Brooklyn, I have facilitated team-building days and conferences on bringing mindfulness into the classroom. I have trained in the Mindful Schools curriculum and am a graduate of The Interdependence Project's yearlong meditation teacher training program in NYC.
I am also proud to work for Madison Youth and Family Services, facilitating a mindfulness program in both elementary schools, a mentoring program at Brown School as well as health programs at the High School.