Meet Amy

How it Begain

My yoga story began after years studying fitness and martial arts. I stepped into my first yoga class at the gym looking for a good stretch and found that it wasn’t exactly love at first down dog.

The postural practice was physically challenging but the biggest surprise was required mental steadiness and attention to detail that yoga entailed. But I love a good challenge, so I kept up with the practice. It wasn’t until I became more familiar with the asanas and their connection to the breath that I began to experience how profound the practice of yoga could be.

How it Evolved

When I started linking the movement with the breath, the practice became magical. I had an ‘a-ha’ moment and it quickly became apparent that this practice was much bigger than anything I had done in the gym.

I was learning how to pause and flow, cultivating an awareness and concentration that would not only serve me on my mat but gave me the tools to act elsewhere in my life in a way that was life affirming.

So I traded in my boxing gloves for a yoga mat and my gym membership for class packages at my favorite New Jersey yoga studio, Yoga Synthesis. I took my first Yoga Teacher Training in 2006 and have since continued to grow and feed my insatiable desire to learn more from the multitude of yoga styles and teachers in the world.

What it is Today

This insatiable desire has led me to complete over 3,000 teacher training hours (and counting) from various schools of yoga, so that I may teach others the absolute best of the practices and philosophies I’ve been taught.

In 2011, I founded iFlow Yoga LLC and established my home studio, The Down Dog House. iFlow Yoga is modern Vinyasa style that draws upon my extensive study of the yoga and ayurveda sciences. I maintain a regular teaching schedule in Northern New Jersey. I also offer 200 hour and 300 hour Yoga Teacher Trainings Programs in Ubud, Bali and The Down Dog House in Ramsey, NJ. You can also join me on one of my yoga immersion retreats in Mexico or Puerto Rico.

I strive to make my classes powerful, dynamic and spiritual, incorporating meditation, pranayama and classical yogic teachings, combining it all in a way that is relatable to students in modern times. I value intelligent alignment and work to infuse my classes with dharmic theme from years of teaching Anusara Yoga. I add a fluid meditative quality from studying breath centered vinyasa, but counter that with the occasional long hold to cultivate power and control. I love creating interesting unorthodox postures and flows that progressively take students to places they never knew existed. In turn, my students continue to teach me everyday, in ways I could have never imagined.