About Me
My name is Maya, and I’m a wholehearted yoga teacher and life-long learner here to walk alongside you on your healing journey as you cultivate greater trust, connection, empowerment, and sense of wholeness within yourself. As a trauma informed yoga teacher and blossoming yoga therapist, I offer a holistic approach integrating yogic wisdom teachings, with adjacent healing modalities and modern neuroscience using the tools of breath, somatic practices, mindfulness, and self- inquiry. I currently offer group yoga classes and private yoga therapy sessions, available in-person in Portland, Oregon as well as virtually.
Why Yoga? My Teaching Philosophy:
My aim in teaching is to help you develop your capacity to experience and harness your life force with less resistance and more harmony. Together, we cultivate your ability to draw upon your inner radiance to navigate your peaks and valleys with discernment, ease, grace, resilience, and compassionate understanding. The invitation is to welcome kindness, honesty and curiosity to create spaciousness and a befriending nature toward all the parts of you.
Offering choice and supportive guidance, I aim to promote your agency. Integrating multiple limbs of yoga into my practices holds the potential for your gifts of deeper listening, insight, and understanding to unfold. I offer practices between the yin and the yang, engaging in what nourishes, connects, and taps into the aliveness of the senses. In this way, we create your container of greater awareness—feeling from the dense to the subtle.
Yoga provides an opportunity for you to uncover a clearer mind, greater discernment, and rediscover your inherent wholeness— while also meeting life's circumstances. A chance to loosen the hold that cravings and aversions play in your life, with more awareness and understanding. It opens the door to healing past wounds and empowers you to live into greater potential, purpose, and fulfillment. By drawing on embodied intuition, you gain the capacity to navigate the ever-changing landscape of your life. I am honored to witness and share in the transformative effects that the practice of yoga can bring to your healing journey.
When I'm not teaching...
I am out enjoying life! I find inspiration in the changing seasons beside my family, friends and fur baby Koba. He teaches me patience and the importance of maintaining a light, playful, and curious heart. I engage in seasonal work at the farmers market, participate in ad hoc events, volunteering, environmental cleanups, indulging in travel, hiking and exploration especially involving food and gathering. Deep conversations and playful moments filled with laughter and love are integral to my lifestyle. I'm drawn to what lights people up and what gives pause, both awe and tears. I enjoy historical fiction, podcasts, film, various art forms, memoirs and stories that vividly capture the diverse experiences of life. Healing modalities, social justice, and helping others align with resources and life purpose is a deep calling of mine. I appreciate a novel experience and take great comfort in simple moments.
