Elizabeth is located in New York and travels to teach throughout the larger New York City metro area as well as the east coast.

I first discovered the path of yoga through poetry.  Through the words of poets singing about human experiences too big and too deep to be fully encompassed by words, the words rather pointing the way through their artful resonance towards something infinitely moving and beautiful. 

I was on a search for this in my early adulthood.  Over my desk I kept a line of poetry that stood in for what I didn’t know.  It wasn’t until I took my first yoga class that I heard something in the words of the teacher, a certain perspective on life that resonated.  I became a yoga teacher, drawn by the joy and transformative capacity of the movement, for sure, but even more, by my desire to somehow get at the heart of things. 

I dove into the philosophy of Classical Yoga, and the Shaiva-Shakta Yoga tradition, so famous for its source teachings on mantra and the house holder practices of deep meditation, which allow any human being to walk the path of yoga and receive its full fruits, even as one remains very much engaged in the world, is in fact leveraged in one’s action and fulfillment in the world. 

But here was the rub: While I was receiving tremendous inspiration from my yoga practice, my teaching and my studies, none of this was fully translating into my actual experience.  How, when would the fruit begin to ripen?  It felt like something was missing. It was at this point in my life that I had the good fortune to meet Paul Muller-Ortega and to learn Neelakantha Deep Meditation. I discovered that missing link within myself. 

At heart I am a student, but I am also a teacher.  My greatest fulfillment is to share this precious knowledge and potent prescription for practice with others.  It’s a knowledge that really by right belongs to everyone. It is so simple and natural, giving every human being the key to their own castle’s keep and the treasure contained within.