What an exciting year!

RCYT! I’m now a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher. This is 95 hour training and acknowledged by the Yoga Alliance. This training with Yoga Ed. and Breathe for Change included Trauma-Informed Yoga for Youth, Yoga for Children and Yoga for Teens. While I have integrated yoga into my work with children for 17 years, I now have the credential to make that official. I am now a Registered Yoga Teacher, RYT-200, and Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher. I am also in 300 hour training, and have completed Chair Yoga, Restorative Yoga and Trauma-informed Yoga.

Almost finished: Berklee College of Music! Bachelors of Arts in Songwriting, with minor in Music Business Entrepreneurship.This is a degree I have been working on since 2017, when I went back to school to pursue this "music thing". I'm an unexpected musician, starting by writing the music my family needed, then continuing to write the music my community needed. I had written over a hundred songs, had taught over a thousand people with my unique ukulele method, Ukify™, and had performed a lot. I know my music was going somewhere and I had enough to give, that I needed to grow my skills so I could express what I have in my mind.

I completed a Master Certificate in Songwriting with Berklee College of Music just before the pandemic. My commencement is this month, in Boston, and I will finish my final two courses in August. I started off using my GI Bill and have continued for eight years taking the classes I could between parenting, Frolicking and creating professional development for teachers. But that’s not all.

Master's of Education in Social Emotional Learning, Mindfulness and Yoga with Breathe for Change

Somehow, I started a Master's of Education with Breathe for Change as well, with an anticipated graduation of December. My research for this degree will begin in the Fall, and includes studying the benefits of my GuideNotes™ programming in public schools,

Two colleges at the same time is a bit much, but they naturally go together with the things I'm building for my community.

I wouldn't be able to do this without the support of my family and the two ladies helping me behind the scenes, Christina Jankovitz and Terri Hartman, as well as the teachers who teach at critical times.

I am so grateful to my community.

Thank you so much for being along on this journey!