My Story

i am a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT), Level 2. I did my teacher training at the New York Iyengar Yoga Institute under the mentorship of James Murphy. I have been a member of the faculty at the Institute. since 2017. Since the Covid19 pandemic I have also been teaching classes online.

I am eternally grateful to Geeta Iyengar, Prashant Iyengar, Abhijata Iyengar and Raya with whom I studied in Pune, India. I am thankful for the teachers with whom I’ve studied in the United States —James Murphy, Tori Milner, Naghmeh Ahi, the late Lisa Rotell, Lois Steinberg, Patricia Walden, Rebecca Lerner, Firrooza Razvi, Stephanie Quirk.

I grew up in Malaysia. At 17 I came to America to study Music and Modern dance at Ohio Wesleyan University.  My interest in dance and its relevance to society and culture led me to a graduate study in Dance Ethnology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In Hawaii I studied and performed Butoh, an iimprovisatory dance originated in Japan in the 1950s..

I returned to Malaysia in the early 1990s to teach Dance Ethnology at the University of Malaya and the National Arts Academy. I founded a dance company to teach, choreograph and perform Butoh. I performed and taught dance internationally between 1990-2007. In 2006 I settled in Montclair, NJ with my husband and two children. I turned to yoga when dance became a challenging pursuit while raising my children. Yoga was a way to continue my relationship with my body, physically and spiritually.

The teaching and practice of Iyengar Yoga opened up a whole universe of awareness, intelligence and spiritual awakening. The depth of B.K.S. Iyengar’s teaching makes practice and teaching an endless exploration of the body, mind and consciousness.