Namaste! I'm Tori. I found yoga at 16 years old when I stumbled across a video tape called “Yoga for Dummies”. I was an instant fan of yoga's balancing, empowering, and joyous qualities. Almost ten years later, I've floated from San Diego to South Africa to Japan and finally San Francisco, always with a yoga mat in hand and still drawing life lessons from yoga every single day. As a volunteer yoga teacher for two years in Japan, I was profoundly impacted by yoga's ability to transcend language and culture to resonate with our inate compassion and interconnectedness.
I received my 200-hour Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training from Yoga Tree San Francisco, studying under Darren Main, Elise Lorimer, Stephanie Snyder, Jamie Lindsay, and Chris Tompkins. I have practiced extensively in the Iyengar tradition and like to blend the alignment wisdom from Iyengar with the rhythmic dance of vinyasa yoga. All of my classes weave a tapestry of philosophy, strength, balance, flexibility and of course breath.
Inspired by experiences in my over 15 years of Buddhist practice, I am now pursuing my masters in Buddhist Studies. I am excited by any chance to integrate the yoga path with my education in Buddhist Studies, drawing from the infinite wisdom in the two traditions.