Hi, I’m Leslie and I am so happy you are here.

I wholeheartedly believe that you found your way to this page because we are supposed to connect.
Whether something I say simply resonates and inspires you in some way, or we are meant to work together, welcome.

I credit yoga for helping me to fine tune my emotional resilience. To find direction, to trust my body and my intuition.

Let me tell you a little about me

I have always been a seeker. A peace-keeper. And a healer.

Although my upbringing was chaotic and extremely unhealthy - we did share some love, and I grew to be good at caring for everyone around me. I learned at a young age how to calm myself and other people down. And by roaming the hills around my home in rural Oregon, on foot and on horseback, I learned to find nourishment for my soul.

Despite that I wasn’t very good at caring for myself. As a teen and in my early 20’s, I looked good on the outside but inside, things were not going well. After I graduated from college, I struggled with depression and severe anxiety. Luckily I had supportive women around me (my boss and some older friends) and I found help in therapy and in membership in healing circles and groups. And I found yoga which, right from the very beginning, was a spiritual and profoundly transformative practice for me.

I stepped onto a path of deep healing and have traveled that path ever since. Those early, powerful experiences literally saved my life. I am blessed now with a life that is rich and deep and impactful.

That doesn’t mean it’s all been easy. I’m like you. Human.
Always riding the waves between my magnificence and the hot mess that I can be on some of my finer days!

Here are a few of the very human things I have done:

• In high school I was one of the smart kids, and I was a multi-sport athlete. I wanted to be a physical education teacher!

• I got married at 20 and divorced at 25.

• Instead of Phys Ed. I got my degree in Occupational Therapy. I practiced on acute psychiatric units for nearly 15 years (1987 - 2001)

• I burned out on healthcare (several times) and finally quit because I just couldn’t stand how the medical establishment “treated” illness and especially how people with mental illness were viewed - not only in society but by so many of the professionals they depended on.

• Somewhere in there, I got married again (and then later got divorced, again!) I’ve also given my heart to a few dogs over the years…the really challenging ones always seem to find me.

• I trained as a yoga teacher and after quitting my job, I decided to follow my dreams and opened a yoga studio, which I ran for 12 years (closing not too long after that second divorce - whew - that was a tough year!)

• I fell in love again a few years ago and now live in the high desert of Central Oregon, in a beautiful town at the base of the Cascade Mountains. I share a home with my partner and our 2 dogs.

• I spend as much time as I can still roaming in the hills, nourishing my soul with nature medicine and feeling grateful for spirit - who I worship in Mother Earth, the Divine Feminine (I love all the Goddesses), the rivers, the trees, the stones and all living beings!

• In addition to being a yoga teacher and yoga therapist, I am also a certified Soul-based Coach.

  This work that I love AND my yoga practice, are things I do that allow me to help other people and to shine a light for humanity so we can all live in a healthy and peaceful world...but more than that, they help ME and keep me true to the healing journey that is life. As one of my teachers says, “do it first for me, then for you, then for us.”

I invite you to be imperfect with me. Together.

And I bring all of that to you. We can begin where you are….I’ve probably been there. I will hold space for you as you are. I can support you in moving forward, in cultivating a new, richer, more loving relationship with yourself. You are more powerful than you know. I see you.