​​Growing up the youngest of five on a small dairy farm in Sturgeon Bay, I learned at a very young age the meaning of working hard.  I began practicing yoga as a freshman at Marquette University at a time when I needed stress and anxiety relief.  I studied Iyengar yoga at Milwaukee Yoga Center. I practiced Vinyasa yoga for ten years. After fifteen years of study and practice, I was certified by Breathe for Change.  As an educator with a master’s degree, having taught elementary and middle school and now adults, I found that infusing yoga and mindfulness into the classroom was an effective way to help students learn.  The social emotional strategies I learned have helped me lead the Hilbert School District staff in a staff development and four years of weekly yoga and mindfulness classes. I worked one-on-one with a boy with autism.  See more about this under SEL.