How or why did you start practising Bikram Yoga?
I was studying architecture at that time and looking for something to balance this demanding lifestyle.

How was your very first Bikram class?
Hard but exhilarating. That was back in 1997. The teacher would not leave me alone. He kept at me. The teacher was great. He opened the first Bikram Yoga College of India in Canada at Bloor and Spadina in Toronto. Thank you Sasha!

What is your most important advice for the students?
Keep up your practice. Look at the big picture. Both in life and yoga.

What did you want to be as a child when you grow up?
An architect.

What would you do if you didn’t teach yoga?
Design and build stuff.

What is your favourite quote?
“Don’t ever let school interfere with your education.”

Which one is your least favourite pose in the series?
Standing bow. – balance in still my greatest challenge.

What are you most proud of in your life?
That I continually move forward and welcome new experiences and people into my life.

What is your first thought in the morning?
What will today be like.

What do you treasure the most?
New experiences and challenges which keep life vital and interesting.

Tell us about your first kiss.
As it turns out girls lips don’t taste like strawberries!

When and where did you complete the teacher training?
2009 Spring Palm Desert, California

How or why did you start practising Bikram Yoga?
Thank you, Tracy!

How was your very first Bikram class?
Hot, sweaty, at the end I thought I can fly. My feet didn’t touch the Earth for hours.. at the same time if someone gave me a bow and arrow I could shoot very far and aim perfect. I felt so focused and concentrated.

What is your most important advice for the students?
Don’t take things too serious and have patience.

What did you want to be as a child when you grow up?
Jockey.

What would you do if you didn’t teach yoga?
I would ride a horse, haha, …kidding. I would learn and teach something else.

What is your favourite quote?
”We are not Human beings seeking for spiritual experience, but Spiritual beings in the human experience.”

Which one is your least favourite pose in the series?
Rabbit./Sasangasana.

What are you most proud of in your life?
Walking 800 kms in Spain on the Pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostella in 2005.

What is your first thought in the morning?
Coffeeeeee… and a great walk with the dog.

What do you treasure the most?
My friends.

Tell us about your first kiss.
I was 13, totally in love and very excited about it. It was perfect.

How or why did you start practicing Bikram Yoga?
I started Bikram Yoga when I was off work due to depression and a friend invited me to the class.

How was your very first Bikram class?
It was hot… hot, hot, hot my friend did not tell me it was hot yoga and I wore sweat pants and a sweat shirt for my first class.

What is your most important advice for the students?
Enjoy the heat, enjoy the misery and don’t be hard on yourself or your practice. It all comes with time and enjoy the journey along the way. Step by step.

What did you want to be as a child when you grow up?
I wanted to be a nurse

What would you do if you didn’t teach yoga?
I would be working at Costco I think.

What is your favourite quote?
“Live, live, live, life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.”

Which one is your least favourite pose in the series?
It changes from week to week. I just know that the posture I like the least is the one my body needs the most

What are you most proud of in your life?
Finishing my teacher training and living my truth through my teaching.

What is your first thought in the morning?
I need to get to class to teach the 6 am.

What do you treasure the most?
My parents and the relationship we have.

Tell us about your first kiss.
It was very scandalous and I was about 9 at the time.