For the talent show at the end of our six week yoga teacher training program, my friends and I decided to create a Rishikesh version of the ever-so-popular Pharrell Williams “Happy” video. . . I had such a blast filming these ladies in the Beatles ashram, alongside the Ganges River, and on the Laxman Jhula bridge. It’s good to know I’ll always have a fallback career as music video director/producer! A shame the video doesn’t convey how amazing the food is here, or how much cow poop there…
For the last two years I’ve been living and working in Rwanda, East Africa. While there I started teaching yoga and co-founded Yego Yoga Rwanda with my friend Allie. Our classes attracted Rwandans and people from around the world: Europeans working for the UN, Americans starting social enterprises, East Africans running regional companies. It was exciting to see how everyone’s different approaches contributed to a mixed yoga class; I was constantly learning and adapting my class to cater to the wide range of yoga styles that each individual…