About Me

Hi! I’m Courtney.

I’ve been teaching group, private, and corporate yoga and meditation for over a decade. Most of this teaching has been in greater New York City.

I also have a doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, and am a board-certified herbalist.

I grew up in New England. I own a tri-cornered hat from watching many Massachusetts-based Revolutionary War re-enactments thanks to my childhood crush on Paul Revere.

I was an actor from my teen years through my late twenties. I was cast as sprightly and rambunctious gentlemen in Shakespeare plays as well as ladies about to be murdered or accused of murder on television shows. One time I even played a cow in an award-winning play.

What? You haven’t heard of me?!

I have also had careers working in copy writing at a chocolate factory, and as the mascot for a bank. Given my resume item, “former NYU mascot," how could they not hire me?

I love to hike and bike, take long walks with my headphones and a favorite album, have dinners with my friends, hang out with my cool parents, and travel to beautiful snowy countries with my husband.

Teaching yoga has been a consistent pleasure for me. I get to meet lots of people who soon become community. Community is everything. Within the feedback loop of teaching I most certainly get back what I give.

Throughout my 11 years of teaching, I’ve taught thousands of group vinyasa and hatha yoga classes, traditional hot and hot flow classes, and basics and fundamentals classes for beginners or advanced students who recognize the importance of honing their technique. For years, I taught weekly corporate classes at Etsy and Pinterest where we worked especially on undoing aches and pains from sitting and keyboarding. I have a robust private practice both online and in person and through experience have become particularly skilled at teaching therapeutic privates to those in their 70s and 80s.

I’ve also trained hundreds of yoga teacher trainees in art of teaching, with a personal focus on how to sound like themselves while focusing on others, in a way that feels inclusive, safe, and fun.

It is important to me to teach bodily agency rather than obedience to somatic dominance and I believe yoga is a wonderful feel-good medium for this concept. My students have thanked me in the past for inclusive and specific cueing, refining poses from collapsed to empowered, as well as comprehensive, enlightening, and relaxing physical adjustments.                                                                             

I especially love to see a student’s face light up when they do the thing they didn’t think they could do.