I enjoy the great outdoors! I run, climb, cross country ski, snowshoe, hike and am also a yoga teacher registered with Yoga Alliance, Yoga Therapist and certified personal trainer.

In my spare time, I enjoy painting and playing music with my husband Gary, who is also a musician. In 1988, I started and managed my business, Mimeworks, and worked as a professional pantomime for 12 years providing entertainment at major local festivals, schools, parties, business events, libraries, and appeared on childrens television shows. I studied with world famous mime, Marcel Marceau, during the summers from 1993 thru 1995 at the Goldston Johnson School for Mimes in Columbus Ohio.

I am also an experienced registered nurse, having worked for 25 years in hospitals, clinics, doctors offices, and home health care settings. Prior to becoming a RN, I worked as an LPN for 6 years in various areas of nursing from medical-surgical to intensive care.

Education:

I have a diverse educational background! I received my LPN License in November 1970 from Chicago Public Schools Practical Nursing Program. I first became interested in yoga in 1975 at the age of 22, when attending a week long yoga retreat in the Bahamas, spending 4 hours a day doing and studying yoga with swamis from all over the world. Looking back at that time, I truly believe that I was too young to appreciate and know what a gift I had in yoga, and didn't think I could make it into a successful career.

In the fall of '77 to the summer of '79 I attended Truman College in Chicago, IL, and received an Associate RN degree. After working as a RN for about 4 years, I then continued my education and received a BA in Psychology from Northeastern IL. University, Chicago, IL.

Having worked as a nurse for over 25 years, and wanting to try something different I went to Shoshoni Yoga Retreat, in Rollinsville, Colorado in March 2002, and took a month long yoga teacher training.