About Star
Star’s yoga journey began before birth. Her mother, also a yoga teacher, practiced with Star in utero and throughout her infancy. Aptly named by her father as his “shining light,” Star felt compelled to highlight this lineage into the healing practice she has cultivated as Stars Align and Flow.
Star took a deep dive into yoga while pregnant in 2008 to bring balance to her own life and has practiced regularly ever since. In 2016 she took the step to deepen her own practice and relationship with herself completing RYT 200 training at Asheville Yoga Center and has been teaching regionally ever since. In 2024 Star began working with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and witnessed her own transformation and return to Self. Star's enthusiasm for sharing this gift and passion for helping others heal, reconnect with and step into their own light motivated her to complete an Internal Family systems informed Neuro-somatic trauma therapy certification with Dr. Frank Anderson. Now, Star merges ancient wisdom and yogic traditions with modern scientific therapeutic modalities to encourage individuals to step into their own authenticity. Her hope is for all individuals to feel at home in their own skin. Through this work individuals learn to listen to their bodies expressed needs while cultivating connection to Self, allowing greater self-compassion, flexibility and freedom from dis-ease. At any stage of life, Star’s teaching is aimed to help individuals discover themselves through yoga.
“Gazing up at the stars, surrounded by the elements, I have always felt a sense of deep connection.”
Why Yoga?
“If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you have never done” Thomas Jefferson Yoga has become a mainstream part of our culture, the western world craves this 5000+ year old practice. Why? Because those wise yogis were onto something, it works if you truly practice it! Yoga is the yoking (union) of the body and the mind yoga works with all body systems to harmonize the body mind connection, individuals have to opportunity through regular practice to awaken their innate physical, emotional and spiritual awareness and open themselves to deep physical and emotional healing and transformation “Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self care” Bessell Van Der Kolk Yoga asana enhances circulation, cleanses the organs and glands, and helps regulate the nervous system. The postures help to lengthen and strengthen our musculoskeletal system, especially our core and spinal cord, which improves flow through the nervous system to our muscles, allowing the nervous system to naturally dissipate hormones excreted in response to life’s daily stressors as well as long - held and often suppressed and repressed physical and emotional trauma. Asanas invite the practitioner to use posture and breath to release emotional and psychological (energetic) blocks and connect one with universal life force energies. A state of ease rather than dis-ease is obtained when energy flows freely through the body. In YOGA we learn to go beyond our often overactive mental patterns into a yogic state. With practice we learn to disconnect more from the external world to reach a place of deep inner stillness and awareness to create a union of body and mind while improving metabolism and energy levels. Yoga has been aptly described by many as the journey of the self, to the self, through the self. Yoga is your journey, a powerful adaptogen with transformational qualities. Our physical bodies carry our entire story, beyond what the conscious mind recalls, your body keeps the score. Through developing your own yoga practice, you add powerful tools to your life toolbox to enhance the quality of your life both on and off the mat!