Hi! I’m Susie.

Women’s circle facilitator, yoga philosopher, birth healer, spiritual feminist, academic scholar, and mother of three. As a white-bodied, cis-hetero woman, I am committed to breaking free from the combined oppressions of patriarchy, white supremacy, and extractive capitalism through the practice of yoga and conscious motherhood.

My yoga classes and motherhood coaching sessions offer a blend of ancient women's wisdom, Ayurvedic science, societal responsibility, and joyful community. I honor the practice of yoga from an intersectional, decolonial perspective that honors women's contribution to the history of yoga, and I believe that motherhood can be the most powerful path to self-actualization.

This is my journey.

My journey started on the mat…

With a yoga practice that began over twenty years ago, during my first year in college, I have long practiced a unique blend of body movement, breath work and spirituality.

In 2008 I began teaching yoga while pregnant with my first child. Practicing yoga through my pregnancy was the first awakening to the magnetic force of the feminine spirit. With my first baby, I began practicing infant massage and immediately recognized the benefits of nurturing, loving touch between mother and child. I continued to practice and teach yoga and infant massage through my second and third child.

At the time…

I was also working full time in a lucrative sales career. My career was fun and it felt really good to be so successful. I had my daughter, my third child, in 2015 but returned to work quickly, eager to escape the humdrum life of diapers and sleepless nights.

My yoga practice and teaching faltered and eventually I gave it up.

A few years later…

I looked around to realize my life was not one I wanted to be living. I was unhappy and stressed, and eventually diagnosed with depression and anxiety. I began medication and therapy and also tentatively stepped back into my mat to resume my study of yoga.

When my husband’s company offered him a position across the country, we decided this might be the fresh start our family needed. I could take a break from my career, focus on our growing children, and reorient myself to my true calling.

But becoming a stay at home mother after years of success in my career was a tremendous shock to my identity and ego.

Suddenly I felt disempowered, invisible to the world, with no social status of my own. I went from feeling so clear about my value to questioning every aspect of my life, simply because I was doing something so fundamentally female.

And so I found myself redefining my role as a mother. Embodying my yoga teachings to view every interaction with my three children as a chance to reveal my Self and shed the Ego. Because THIS is the true calling. My children are not here to fulfill my egoic fantasies. My children are here to challenge ME, over and over and over again, into releasing MY ego. I am called into the deepest level of self-awareness and non-attachment as I navigate my relationships with each child. Mothering is the hardest job there is, but not in the ways I expected. I’ve grown more as a human while consciously raising my children than in any time I spent in meditation or yoga.

Mothering isn’t easy, but it can be fulfilling in ways you didn’t even imagine.

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My Credentials

Master of Arts in Women, Gender, Spirituality and Social Justice

California Institute of Integral Studies, Fall 2022

2022 Select Courses:

“Spiritual Activism & Transformative Social Change”
“Teaching to Transform: Liberatory Feminist Education”
“Alternative Economic Systems”

2021 Select Courses:

“Women and World Religions”
“Womanist, Feminist and Decolonial Worldviews”
“Birthing Futures: Mothering as Radical Methodology”
“Animal Ethics: Ecofeminist / Ecowomanist Perspectives”

2020 Select Courses:

“Building Conscious Allyship”
“Sacred Arts and Rituals of Ancient Crete”
“Sacred Lineages: Goddesses, Foremothers and Activists”

Yoga Instructor

RPYT - Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher - 85 hour prenatal yoga teacher certification earned 2011 Yoga Garden, San Francisco, California

E-200 Hour RYT - 200 hour yoga teacher certification earned 2009 At One Yoga, Scottsdale, Arizona with over 1,000 hours of teaching logged.

500 Hour RYT - 300 hour yoga teacher certification earned 2020 at PranaYoga Institute, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Select Teaching Positions 2008 - Current

At One Yoga, (Studio Manager 2007 - 2011), Phoenix & Scottsdale, Arizona
Flooid Yoga, Scottsdale, Arizona
Sanctuary Spa, Scottsdale, Arizona
Glendale Community College, Glendale, Arizona
Desert Song Yoga, Phoenix, Arizona
YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Crystal Heart Yoga, Corning, New York

Infant Massage

CEIM - Certified Educator of Infant Massage - certification earned 2011 Infant Massage USA Flagstaff, Arizona

Founder, Infant Massage Classes of Fort Wayne, April 2019 - July 2020

ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network)

Chapter Leader, ICAN of Fort Wayne, Feb 2019 - July 2020

Professional Associations

IAMAS, member since 2021: “International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship is a scholar-activist, interdisciplinary, non-profit organization designed to promote empowered mothering via research on and advocacy for (and with) mothers.”

Yoga Alliance, member since 2011: “Yoga Alliance fosters and supports the high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable teaching of yoga.”

Infant Massage USA, member 2011 - 2020: “Through training, education and research, we promote nurturing touch and communication so parents, caregivers and children are loved, valued, and respected.”