Hi, I’m Tess.

I’m a movement artist, wanderer, music lover, and devotee of the life force.

I was raised by the wise rocks and generous rivers of Boulder, Colorado, USA. My grandmother, a practical mystic and scholar of religion, first pointed me down the path of yoga and spirituality. Years later, somatic rebellion led me back to yogic practice in search of relief from chronic pain and anxiety. My body has been my guide and truth-teller ever since.

My experience of body-mind healing through yoga led me to study the miraculous microcosm of the inner landscape. In graduate school I studied movement science, filling my frontal lobe with bodily blueprints and hoping to grasp the mysteries of somatic intelligence. But the fluorescent lights of academia didn’t shine on many of the questions I had, so I turned to ancient traditions that inquired into body, mind, and consciousness through direct experience. These wanderings led me to live in India, where I spent two years studying yogic systems of embodied healing and liberation.

On paper I have steeped in over 3,000 hours of accredited study in yoga, movement, and meditation, and hold certifications in Vinyasa Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yin Yoga, Somatic Yoga, Myofascial Release, Non-dual Shaiva-Shakta Tantra, Tantrik Meditation, Sound Therapy, Authentic Flow, Somatic Ecstatic Dance, Shake the Dust, and Embodied Yin. I hold group embodiment workshops and retreats, one-to-one sessions, and continuing education courses for yoga teachers.

My offerings are always a collaboration with the body-mind-hearts they are shared with. My intention is to show up all-the-way human and I hope you will come as you are, too. Sound is at the heart of my offerings - I love to play with words and rhythm, sing with my harmonium, and make a playlist that feels like a story. My classes are trauma-informed and rooted in animate wisdom traditions.

I share these practices in deep reverence and gratitude for the South Asian lineage holders through which the yogic practices have emerged and been passed down. My work flows from many people who have walked this path before me, and has been greatly influenced by the teachings of Anja Bergh, Hope Henley, Nikhil Kulshrestha, Prasad Rangnekar, Satu Tuomela, Evy Ferrero, and Joshua Schrei.