MY JOURNEY
In 1994, when I was 19, I fell off a cliff while rock climbing and broke my right leg.
My tibia and fibula were both broken. I ended up in a wheelchair and endured a thigh-high cast for months. I lost feeling in my right foot and had to teach myself how to walk again.
Having grown up dancing, I’d always felt confident in my body — it was the one thing in my life I could control. Suddenly, that confidence was taken away.
FINDING YOGA
I didn't have enough money for physical therapy, so I turned to yoga. But it quickly became more than just a way to recover.
Yoga gave me a new mindset, a new set of values. For the first time ever, I began to feel in control of my healing, my health, my future.
By 2002, I had completed my teacher training, and I cleared out our tiny living room to start teaching yoga classes to friends.
From 2004 to 2009, my husband and I had three children, and I spent the next decade balancing family life with teaching yoga six days a week.
In January 2018, I opened my first of three yoga studios.
My private client base grew steadily, and in January 2018, with the help of 61 supporters in a Kickstarter campaign to raise $12,000, I opened my first of three studios, called SyteraYoga.
DISCOVERING THE ROOT CAUSES OF PAIN
When I began teaching yoga, I noticed that many of my students struggled with poor posture, chronic pain, and stiffness caused by hours of computer work, driving, and staring at our phones.
I turned to my training in Thai Yoga Massage to perform manual assists to help students get into poses. By applying pressure along the lines of fascia, students who were too tight to reach certain poses suddenly found themselves able to move in ways they hadn’t before. My hands were somehow helping them to rewrite old patterns, allowing their bodies to open and move in ways they couldn’t before.
I didn’t know it at the time, but the reason why it seemed magical was because I was affecting their fascia. This realization sent me on a journey to learn more about how fascia works and how to manipulate it.
The Nadi Method for fascia fitness was born.
As my classes grew in size, there was not enough time to provide manual assists to everyone. I needed some kind of tool that students could use to replicate the results that they were getting from me manually.
The perfect tool didn't exist, so I invented it: The Nadi Ball.
You don't need a major hardship (like a broken leg)
to put you on a better path.
Instead, you can do it bit by bit, day by day, slowly but surely rewriting the patterns in your body and in your mind. The compounded impact of doing this is powerful, so much so that it seems magical. But it’s not magic.
It’s simply learning how to tap into your body’s natural ability to grow and heal.
