Angie: Angie started her yoga journey in 2017 in California as a beautiful compliment to her marathon training and role as a materials engineer at a biotech start-up. This initial seed of inspiration quickly blossomed leading to Angie’s journey into mindfulness, meditation, yoga and self-discovery. As a 500 hr RYT specializing in vinyasa and kundalini, Angie partners with students and community to engineer experiences that invite learning, healing, discovery and growth. Her mission is to bring to life the concept of experiencing your fullest Journey of Yourself (JOY). At her home-base studio, Down Under School of Yoga you can find Angie threading breath through intentional energetic flows, heated vinyasas and effervescent sculpts. Receptive to feedback and attune to adaptive change, Angie is always interested in customizing and personalizing to meet her communities needs in the moment so never be shy to approach with requests or feedback. Shortly after starting her teaching endeavors, Angie visited Nosara for the first and found a place she will always call home. It is a complete honor to be holding space on this retreat to welcome you all to visit, honor, and grow in her favorite earthly vortex. With light, love, and laughter.

I was introduced to yoga in an old mill building studio downtown Nashua, NH in 2015. The room was hot hot hot, surrounded by mirrors and accompanied by extremely bendy bodies. I was not a bendy body and, quite frankly, I was nervous as hell. Over the course of the years every time I returned to my mat I found myself emerging from savasana someone different, something fresh, something new. Since then I look back to see a world that has changed not only physically but in my mind and my spirit. I can feel deeper than ever through the awareness that is cultivated on my Yoga mat. Yoga, no doubt, became my medicine. This practice is my medicine. I was trained as a teacher, both my 200 hour and 300 hour, here at Down Under School of Yoga. Teachers such as Gregor Singleton, Natasha Rizopoulos, Kate Heffernan, Claire Este McDonald, Justine Cohen and so many others have invested in my professionalism and contributed to the purpose I’ve found as a teacher. Humbled to work amongst such great warriors in the yoga world, I find my voice in the heated room. In my classes we not only turn up the temperature but also the music that compliments the weekly asana sequence curated by dialogue, depth, and determination. In my classes, posture is addressed in detail, breath is a requirement and I encourage all the mindful movers in the room to approach their practice with utmost authenticity. In 2017, Costa Rica became my second home while attending a somatic movement wellness retreat. The cultural vibrations of the Pacific rich coast was the ultimate paradise and I fell in love with my body and breath all over again. Nosara has enriched my life in so many ways, the energy that this coastal town holds feels like an enchanting vortex, full of magic and wonders!