Mantra teacher. Sound healer. Deep initiate of the Sri Vidya Tantric tradition. Scientist. Ocean girl. Mother. Lifelong student.

How I got here.

My father is Korean, an oceanographer. My mother, a teacher from eight generations of farming in Maine. I grew up between those two worlds — shaped by the sea from both directions, and by a childhood that held both rigorous scientific thinking and a deep, unquestioned relationship with the natural world.

I came to yoga in my young adulthood, the way a lot of people do — through the body first, out to 'win' yoga. What I didn't expect was that it would lead me somewhere far older and more precise than anything I'd encountered in a yoga studio.

That place is the Sri Vidya Tantric tradition of the Himalayan Sages: a 5,000-year-old oral tradition whose teachings invite a reality that "includes all and excludes none." Through self-inquiry, contemplation, sacred song, and self-luminous practices transmitted from teacher to student over numberless generations, practitioners are guided toward the very same sounds and frequencies the sages and seers of the Himalayas have held across time. These practices teach us to know our own inner complexity — and to see ourselves in reciprocal abundance with one another and all of life.

I've been studying within this tradition for 18 years. I hold a B.A. in Biology from Columbia, 1,000+ hours of formal certification as a yoga and meditation practitioner and educator, and training in the Yoga Sutras, Vishoka Meditation, and Relational Life Therapy. My living teachers are many, including Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Jean Mazzei, Sherri Mitchell — and perhaps most importantly, the earth and the cosmos.

The biology degree and the lineage practice are not in conflict, for me. They're the same inquiry from different angles: how does this — the body, the sound, the living world — actually work? What is it made of? What moves through it? The scientist and the mystic in me have always been after the same thing.