Sometimes students seek yoga, other times yoga seeks students. My yogic path really began with music, playing the bassoon with the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra and other ensembles and summer programs. The principles of practice, private tutelage, and collective effort strongly impressioned me as I began my college career within the Michigan State University School of Music. Although I began to sense my application of these principles was not to remain on the stage but rather in the classroom. So, I transferred into the College of Natural Science where I decided to pursue the study of Physics. It was there that my understanding really began to accelerate as ideas and perspectives of universal study began to build within the observer in me. Immersed in pages of complicated models written in shorthand representing equations of motion, static fields, and other physical systems, I finally made the connection that I too was composed of the energy I studied and, therefore, I need look no further than myself to study the nature of life. It was at this point the concept of yoga revealed some of its nature to me and I've been hooked ever since. I spent about four years developing a yoga practice as I understood it, gathering insight from texts and my own intuition, but I knew it was time for me to seek instruction. Lucky for me Hiliare and Hilltop was just around the corner. After only a few months of studio practice, I knew I had found the right application of the things I loved most, and decided to enroll in the 200-hour teacher training program in the summer of 2008. Practice and the practice of teaching has truly been a gift for which I am most grateful. So, here I am and here I hope to stay.