About Ally

I first discovered yoga in late 1999 while pregnant with my first child. What started as a way to improve strength and maintain flexibility soon evolved as a way to manage the demands and stress of a busy job.

As a senior corporate executive in the wealth management industry, yoga helped me balance a busy career while raising two kids and navigating the inevitable challenges of constant life changes. Yoga became a really important part of my life. By the time I had my second child I was totally hooked.

Yoga became a critical component for my health and wellbeing when I started to experience strange symptoms in 2015, went through medical processes of elimination, and finally was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Another health challenge arrived in 2021 when I experienced a lower back injury, which developed into sciatica and resulted in micro-discectomy surgery.

Finding ways to manage MS symptoms and maintain back health is just one aspect of my yoga story. Yoga is more than just maintaining a healthy body. It’s about balance - for the mind, for the nervous system, for self-care. And it’s about moving through the world in a way that is aligned both on and off the yoga mat.

I am grateful for the ancient wisdom of yoga, for my teachers and for the opportunities to learn more about how yoga can benefit every one of us.