Mikki’s Story
Mikki focuses on being in the moment. This is what drew her to yoga and what she shares with others. Her classes focus on proper alignment and precision through movement. Mikki empowers her students to leave the world behind and be present.
Mikki fell in love with intelligent movement in her late twenties, and found that it’s through these healing modalities that she finds strength, peace and tranquility.
In 2000, Mikki was certified in the Pilates method while practicing and studying at Physical Mind Institute, Power Pilates, and the Pilates Method Alliance. In 2001, Mikki taught in Tel-Aviv, Israel where she worked directly under physical therapist Dror Raz.
In 2003 Mikki received her Gyrotonic Expansion System® certification under the guidance of Master Trainer Maria Rosa Gugielmi, and in 2004 after the birth of her first child, Mikki studied Itsy Bitsy Yoga® (baby and toddler yoga). In 2006 she pursued further training in the method by Helen Garabedian, Certified Yoga Teacher, Infant Development Movement Educator and founder of Itsy Bitsy Yoga® International.
“Do not live in the future, only the present is real”
-BKS Iyengar
Mikki completed her power yoga training at the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute in Boston with master teacher Gregor Singleton in 2009.
During the summer time Mikki teaches in Vermont, where she first discovered and fell in love with Iyengar Yoga. She was drawn to the method’s brilliant alignment, precision, and philosophy, and upon returning to New York City she began to study at the Iyengar Institute of New York. Mikki is a CIYT and completed her teacher training in 2017.
Today Mikki continues to work, grow and study with many highly skilled Iyengar Yoga teachers including her mentor and the New York institute’s director James Murphy.
Aside from her experience in bodywork, Mikki has a background in advertising and marketing and holds a business degree from Boston University.