Erin completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in Hatha Yoga with the Hatha Yoga Center in Seattle, Washington in 2008. She completed an additional pre and postnatal Yoga Teacher Training through 8 Limbs Yoga Center in 2010 as well as studying yoga for fertility extensively. She is registered with Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level.
Erin continues to practice at various studios; with practitioners who have studied extensively at the intersection of yoga, physical therapy and diaphragmatic breathing; and through various live and recorded online classes.
Erin’s first experience of yoga was practicing in a Jesuit Catholic church basement in the upper Haight in San Francisco in 2000. She has practiced in many studios around the world since then. A 1-hour 26 & 2 class is her preferred personal practice today.
Erin has taught:
- Church basement yoga to various sized groups including mothers with small children present and people with disabilities and their service animals.
- New mother classes in various parenting classes.
- Chair yoga for seniors and people with disabilities.
- Routines that can be completed on a playground or in a living room.
- Group session classes where each week builds on what we learned the prior week.
- Hot flow and 26&2 style classes in studios.
- Prenatal, postnatal and fertility classes.
Teaching possibilities:
- Private or small group live instruction in San Diego.
- Private or small group instruction via video conferencing.
- Appointments might be one time in a setting such as a playground or via video conference in your living room to establish a routine you can complete on your own.
- Weekly or multi weekly schedule options are available as well.
As with so many things, Yoga as a world view as well as a practice has a long history woven with periods of external oppression against practitioners as well as internal oppression among practitioners. As a white women, I work hard to respect the intersectionality of my position as an oppressor (privileged because of my skin color, socioeconomic class and country of origin) and my responsibility to be light and a conduit of love for all creation. Yoking breath to movement is a miniscule part of Yoga theory as a whole and I wish to use the lessons so many have studied to further the possibilities for this yoking as the spirit of our world continues to grow and develop. I hope that people who witness my work will recognize the light and love I wish to be. I also hope that, while I work hard to be aware of the ways I maintain oppression, should I say or do something disrespectful, someone would bring it to my attention so I might rectify the situation.