My story, like many others, is one of charging forth through adversity. My battles have been major depressive episodes, chronic pain, traumatic injury, rejection, and loss. Through this adversity, I’ve cultivated a reputation of groundedness, positivity, empathy, and pragmatism. I am a yoga teacher in Portland, a Software Engineer by day, a lifelong big brother, and now an author. In previous eras, I was a D1 track athlete, a kinesiology researcher, a cyclist, an engineer at Google, a children’s tennis coach, a guitar teacher, and a Catholic retreat leader.

While I have taken on and shed many identities, what remains eternally constant in my life is a fascination with moving the body, an innate spiritual calling, an inherited love of teaching, and an analytical approach to creating progress. I am not a monk or person who lived in an ashram, nor a holy person in any way. I am a person who lives in an American city, works a normal job, and has made a commitment to continual spiritual unfolding within the context of life under the pressures and influences that come with our Western culture.