breaking free: a story of faith, freedom, and becoming
Transformation doesn’t happen all at once — it blooms, season by season. This April, I’m reflecting on the past few years that have shaped me, and how each spring has cracked me open into a portal of growth and awakening. Come with me on a journey of reflection — a path of letting go, rediscovering, and reclaiming myself.
April 2022
I started my first yoga teacher training with the yoga underground. Like many, I did my YTT with ~ no intention to teach ~ just to deepen my practice.
At the time, My mental health was at an all time low, and i was desperate for relief.
yoga always made me feel grounded and connected to my body, so i wanted to explore it more.
I had no idea the way it would blast my life wide open, transform me, and completely change my trajectory.
fast forward two years, and I had quit my public accounting job, moved across the country (Twice), rediscovered dance, done hours of therapy and coaching, wrestled with my religious upbringing, and was searching for something more expansive.
MARCH 2024
I journeyed with feral attuned, exploring and embodying feminine archetypes like the maiden, lover, mother, queen, sage, wild woman, and mystic.
growing up in the mormon church, i learned only one lens for womanhood — and to me, she was confined to a box. a box that was suffocating me more and more each day.
feral opened my eyes, my heart, and my body in a radical way. it was a portal into myself. a redefining of womanhood. i laughed, i cried, i screamed, i played, i nurtured, and i transformed — slowly and profoundly.
APRIL 2024
i stumbled across goddess yoga with embody tantra. I felt so called that i skipped church to go (GASP).
I found a sacred connection to my highest self and the divine. i had glimpsed it before, but it was like the fogginess of anxiety and existential dread cleared, and i had clarity and certainty for the first time.
it was time to leave the church. i sobbed — in grief, in fear, in relief, in acceptance, in love.
What followed was a rebirth — a baptism of returning to myself.
April 2025
the last year has been a beautiful and expansive journey of self-discovery.
to unveil who i am outside of mormonism and other’s expectations.
to find a remembrance of who i was always meant to be.
to reconnect to my own intuition.
to release anxiety and toxic perfection.
to learn to find true joy in the meandering journey that is life.
i’m grateful for the mormon version of me. for her lessons learned, her perspective and compassion, and even her pain.
i’m grateful for all the guides and mentors who taught me to forge a more aligned path.
i’m grateful for the support and love i’ve received from so many that has made this journey feel easy in so many ways.
I’m grateful for the way movement and mindfulness empowered me — how yoga, dance, meditation, and somatic practices led me back to myself.
i’m grateful for my passionate exploration and creative self-expression, from big career shifts to something as seemingly trivial as clothes.
and i am so deeply grateful to teach classes, curate events, and host retreats — holding space for others to find more alignment and empowerment.
i share these practices because of how much they have enhanced my life in every way imaginable.
I look forward to this next year of growth and all i will have experienced and become by april 2026.