About Angela
Angela (she/they) is a naturotherapist, yoga teacher, and community builder specializing in trauma-informed, body-based practices for healing and connection. Sobriety and recovery have been central to their own healing journey, and their work reflects a deep understanding of how trauma, addiction, and disconnection can live in the body, and how movement, breath, and stillness can open pathways back to wholeness.
Angela began practicing yoga in 1998, first drawn to its physical benefits and the quiet relief, focus, and calm it offered. At the time, they didn’t yet have the language for why it felt so meaningful, but even through years shaped by addiction, pain, and survival, yoga remained a steady anchor that helped them return to their body when so much else felt out of reach. When they entered sobriety more than a decade ago, the practice deepened into a powerful catalyst for change. Yoga became more than movement. It became a path of physical and emotional healing, and a spiritual and communal practice rooted in reclaiming safety, truth, and agency.
Teaching since 2017, Angela holds over 1500 hours of certification in yoga, meditation, acupressure, and somatic therapy practices. Their approach honors the roots of yoga while centering trauma-informed accessibility, authenticity, and inclusivity. Each class invites participants to meet themselves with compassion and presence, nurturing resilience through gentleness and honest self-inquiry.
In 2020, Angela founded Shakti in response to the isolation of the COVID 19 pandemic and the need for a safe, accessible place to practice. What began as personal necessity has grown into a community rooted in clarity, transparency, and inclusivity.
Now, Shakti is being reborn as a reclamation of what yoga can be: authentic, accessible, and inclusive. Centering BIPOC, queer, and neurodivergent folks, they strive to create a space for healing grounded in safety, honesty, and collective growth.
At its heart, Angela sees yoga as an act of remembering, of coming home to the self, to one another, and to the wisdom of the body.