Hi, I'm Talon!

For a long time, I was very good at doing yoga.

I showed up on my mat every day. I flowed. I held plank a little too long and tackled every chaturanga (because… achievement). I flaunted the cute leggings and matching sets. I stayed for the extended savasana. On the outside, it absolutely looked like I was living the practice.

But off the mat? I was still rushing. Still striving. Still measuring my worth by how productive I had been before 10am.

Yoga was something I checked off the to-do list.

I’m a third-generation Colorado native, raised by a single mother who modeled grit, resilience, and independence. Hard work was normal. Pushing through was admirable. You handle your business and keep going. And I did.

At the time, I was building a successful career in corporate IT. You know the drill: high expectations, tight timelines, performance reviews, and a calendar that looked like a game of Tetris. I knew how to perform. I knew how to produce. I was an expert in pushing through.

What I didn’t know was how to pause.

Underneath all that forward momentum was a quiet, slightly inconvenient question that wouldn’t go away:

Is this aligned… or am I just going through the motions?

Yoga philosophy (the true ancient wisdom within The Yoga Sutras) began to answer that question and unravel everything I knew to be true.

Through breathwork, meditation, long walks with my dog, and seasons of both burnout and awakening, I started to see that yoga was never meant to stay on the mat. It was meant to shape how I live my life. How I make decisions. How I define success. How I relate to the changing of seasons, internally and externally.

I’ve now been a student of yoga for 14 years. I’m an RYT-500 teacher with over a decade of teaching experience and more than 5,000 classes under my belt.

Little by little, my practice both as a student and a teacher shifted from performance to presence.

And here’s what I learned: the most important shifts didn’t come from simply showing up and doing what's expected of me or my practice.

They come from the wisdom within and our ability to access it.

Learning to live yoga meant listening to my nervous system instead of overriding it with caffeine and willpower. It meant honoring winter chapters of contraction instead of expecting constant growth. It meant redefining success as alignment, not applause from the outside world. It meant choosing rhythm over resistance.

Eventually, yoga stopped being something I did for an hour each day.

It became how I move through my life.

Today, everything I offer—seasonal ceremonies, philosophy-infused courses, women's circles, and so much more—comes from that lived experience. 

I don’t teach yoga as choreography or another gold star to earn each day. I teach it as a way of being. A way of living wholeheartedly in whatever season you’re in—whether you’re blooming, unraveling, or somewhere beautifully in between.

If you’re ready to move from doing yoga to living your yoga, I would be honored to walk alongside you as someone who has made the same shift myself.