About Me
Hi! I'm Rebecca &
I'm so glad you're here!
I’m a Meditation Teacher, Yoga Instructor, Energy & Breath Worker, Business enthusiast, and overall wellness advocate.
I love spending time cozied up in my log cabin in the woods with my sweet cat Gunner and amazing partner in life: my husband Chris. Yes, I live in a log cabin in the woods and it is even better than I dreamed it would be!
I love the woods - the smell of the damp earth, the calm, grounding nature of beautiful trees (I’m a total tree girl - tree art, jewelry, tattoo, all of it), the sounds of the life within them, it makes my heart sing and my worries melt off of me.
I feel the most amazing when I’m moving my body in yoga, on a long hike, or skiing down a mountain. I’m a foodie at heart and love to go out to eat, cook a nourishing meal, or laugh with friends over yummy coffee or wine and cheese.
Being an introvert, I love my time alone spent meditating, with books, my journal, or a good movie.
While I connect so deeply with the blissful world of yoga, meditation, breath, and energy, I value being deeply grounded for it all to click. I love to have one foot in the spiritual world and the other in the science of anatomy and the brain, or the inner workings of planning and business.
I love sharing meditation and yoga through this balanced lens: guiding my students in rooting, anchoring, grounding in conjunction with expansion, wonder, and bliss. That’s where Deep Rooted Bliss was born…
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Don't get me wrong. I haven't always felt this way...
If you're curious, read on...
Here's a little history...
I’ve been a worrier for as long as I can remember. As a kid I remember nervously looking down at a thin orange carpet in the basement of a church, as a therapist taught me how to use a worry journal.
I was always sensitive to the emotions of others around me. I didn’t know there was a name for that (empath) until well into my twenties and it often left me feeling drained, overwhelmed, and alone.
I didn’t know how to be around others and feel well at the same time (unless they were feeling well).
One of the ways I coped with this was through a fascination with how people (including myself) tick. I thought that if I could understand why someone would feel a certain way, I could feel better.
As I grew up I was drawn to the personal growth world, I eventually realized that the more fascinated I became with how and why I felt a certain way, the better I continued to feel.
I tried other ways to feel better...
I always wanted to feel better. I wanted to enjoy the day and did on special occasions. Surprise day trips to the ocean, last minute lunches in town, or a fall hike were times that sparkle in my childhood memories.
In middle school I decided that I wanted to grow up to do something that made me happy and content - thinking that that was the pathway towards what I wanted. I wanted a career that would be wonderful and fun. I always loved to bake so I decided I would go to The Culinary Institute of America.
I loved my time at CIA, yet graduated so tense, exhausted, and drained that I thought the way to feel better was to change careers. While I loved what I did, my mind and body felt burnt out before I officially even started my career.
From kneading bread to kneading muscles...
Over the next few years I tried out other career choices, always thinking that if I changed my circumstances, that would help change how I felt. It was during this time when I massage therapy found me.
I was bartending when one of my customers told me she had signed up for massage therapy school and it felt like something inside of me lit up; clicked.
I really can’t explain it more than that. Now I know it was the stirring of my path, a nudge from the universe telling me it was time to find the REAL way to feel better.
A week later I was enrolled in the next program.
Massage Therapy turned out not to be the career for me. Instead it was the stepping stone that I needed to bring me into a world that taught me how to heal myself, how to create happiness and contentment - not from my circumstances, but from within.
It led me to become a Meditation teacher and a yoga instructor, and pushed me to open my own business.
