“To know the body is to know it as a medium for the divine.”

- M. Jacqui Alexander

Powered by a belief in a community where all can experience freedom and wellness, Shirley uses community organizing and yoga asana, pranayama, meditation and mindful movement to engage in an embodied approach to healing that isn't built by and centered around dominant culture. It is time to remember that we hold the strength of our ancestors in our bones, our spirit as breath, our cultural traditions - and the wisdom of healing and remembering are in the lineage of our peoples. It is time to explore the ways in which the western spiritual world has remained too small by the invisibility of Black Indigenous and People of Color, women, femmes, trans and queer people.

 Shirley’s work doesn’t just de-center dominant narratives, but creates spaces which uplift the colonized and invisibilized memories, to revitalize an approach to healing and movement that is made for and by us.

Shirley’s Yoga Experience

Following her education in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western Physical Therapy and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, her asana teaching focuses on moving the energy through the body in ways that promote better organ function, improved postural alignment, and preventive holistic medicine. She has trained with renowned Tantric yoga teacher Amy Ippoliti specializing in Pranayama, Advanced Asana and Meditation techniques, Tantric Yoga and Buddhist Dharma teacher Lama Rod Owens, Yoga teacher Angel Reverend Kyodo Willaims and Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Tiffany Cruickshank of Yoga Medicine,  where she is currently enrolled in their 500 hour specialized therapeutic yoga training.

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