Joined the Blissful Bee Hive 🎆

Aloha, I am Shannon, a yoga teacher and mentor from Hawaii. After taking a few years sabbatical from teaching, I am rebuilding my teaching practice, Yoga Nalu, through a new online transmission and a mentoring pedagogy that comes from my own personal yoga journey. For the last 2 decades, my practice has consisted of a home self practice with annual trips to India to learn ashtanga from the Jois family who authorized me to teach in this lineage. I've continued to expand my knowledge base with Yin and Restorative Yoga certifications and earning a yoga philosophy certification through Loyola Marymount University's Yoga Studies program. The struggles of maintaining a self-practice and teaching a Mysore program has been challenged by my “other” life as an international flight attendant. While traveling up to 40,000 miles in one month, I have struggled with the lack of sleep, time zone changes, poor eating habits and the guilt of not maintaining my practice or teaching in the “traditional” manner. Over the years, I've refined a variety of habits, rituals and just general “tricks” to keep myself on the mat. Now, I’m mentoring yoga practitioners who are working through their own practice exploration; empowering these students to create, maintain and expand a holistic practice that is tailored to their own modern lifestyle. I’m finalizing my signature program which will offer quarterly admission for committed students to define, schedule and maintain a consistent practice over a 3 month period with my support. I was enticed to join the Blissful Bee Hive because it is a community of yoga teachers. I look forward to learning about and from others here.