inspiration for myself... and hopefully you too!

whether you think you can

or think you can't,

YOU ARE RIGHT.          Henry Ford    (unfortunately)

A C T I O N

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. 

                                                                                                        William James

Baking Without Rules

I've heard before that cooking is an art and baking is a science. I'm not sure where, perhaps my grandmother said it. I suppose it's true,

the most evident difference between cooking and baking is that baking is often times a precise chemistry and the specific intersection of proportion to degree of heat; therefore it's success, in large, is directly correlated to one's ability to follow a recipe closely. But something strange happens every time I attempt to commit to trying a new recipe: I begin to analyze and immediately deviate from it almost immediately. And unfortunatley [or maybe quite fortunately] as positive reinforcement, the baked good turns out delicious anyway.

Yoga Teachin

I'm on the schedule! Yay!!

This past month I went to work for Hapa Yoga, a fresh new San Diego studio right off the 805.

I got the job thanks to my friend Lisa, with whom I did the 200 hr YTT at Prana. She brought me to a challenging Ashtanga class taught by Roberta, [previous owner of Bird Rock Yoga] at Hapa a few weeks back. I began by subbing several classes, and now I'm on the schedule Mondays and Tuesdays! I love designing new sequences and having this balance with the design life, but most of all, what makes it truly worthwhile is seeing students walk away satisfied and visibly more happy than when they  came in. If you're in San Diego, come take my class! First one is on Hapa Yoga!! Check out the schedule and studio at Hapa Yoga


I'm designing my yoga resume and website today. For a long time now I've had this dream of teaching urban intervention yoga classes outdoors, for donations, since as far as I see it, the money's less important than people expanding their practice into the urban and outdoor environment, and getting comfortable with focusing on themselves anywhere. I figured a well-designed site will help me spread the word, since I've been really bad at emailing my friends and those I know to spread the word.

So far other than a grid layout I've designed a chart of what type of yoga I practice and teach. I used Excel for the accuracy and Illustrator for aesthetic. I realize designing sequences isn't part of teaching, but it does fit into time I take out of architecture and tutoring French and that's solely devoted to my yoga practice, education and teaching.

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Snacking is critical to designing yoga graphics