Embodied, yoga-centered life coaching for the space between burnout and breakthrough.

Half Light Coaching is a structured, action-oriented approach that combines collaborative life coaching with personalized yoga practices.

By integrating yoga philosophy, physical postures, meditation, and strategic breathwork, clients develop greater awareness of their body's signals and build habits that engage the body to support clearer thinking, emotional regulation, and effective decision-making.

This process fosters a stronger connection between body and mind, leading to deeper self-knowledge and greater self-trust.

“No one else has your answers.

The work is learning how to hear your own voice.”

Why “Half Light”?

The imagery of the half light is inspired by the ancient Vedic time of day known as Brahma Muhurta.  Brahma Muhurta is a segment of time before dawn (approximately 1 hour and 36 minutes before sunrise) when spiritual processes, such as meditation, are said to be most beneficial. Brahma Muhurta means “the time of the creator.” 

Half Light Coaching is your Brahma Muhurta any time of day - a special and auspicious space to practice creating yourself. During Brahma Muhurta, the darkness is beginning to thin, but it is not yet light. Similarly, HalfLight Coaching honors the space between.

“You can’t hustle your way into healing. You have to slow down and meet yourself.”

Working Together

Coaching programs designed to meet you where you are — whether you're ready to spark a change, ignite your momentum, or nurture deep, lasting radiance.

Spark Package

4 weeks / 4 sessions

A powerful short term container to kickstart change

Best for new clients, life transitions, stress reset, or those seeking a powerful jump start


Includes:

Weekly 55-minute coaching sessions

Personalized weekly yoga, breathwork, or mindfulness practices

Some text/email support between sessions

Final reflection and next steps guide

Investment: $500

Sustain Package

3 months / 6 sessions

Spacious, sustainable integration and growth

Best for those who need time to process, heal, and expand with gentle, embodied guidance


Includes:

Bi-weekly 55-minute coaching sessions

Personalized bi-weekly yoga, breathwork, or mindfulness practices

Additional resources such as guided meditations, podcasts, playlists, or articles relevant to your particular goals

As needed text/email support between sessions

Closing reflection and next-steps plan to maintain your growth

Investment: $700

Payment plans available

Ignite Package

3 months/12 sessions

Steady energizing and deep support to ignite transformation.

Best for those ready for deep change, habit-building, and decision-making.

Includes:

Weekly 55-minute coaching sessions

Weekly personalized yoga-centered practices to integrate mind and body

Additional resources such as guided meditations, podcasts, playlists, or articles relevant to your particular goals

Some text/email support between sessions

Final reflection and next steps guide

Investment: $1,300

Payment plans available

Radiate Package

6 months / 18 sessions

Full, embodied growth for long term success.

Best for those seeking lasting transformation, not just situational change. For people who have done significant work in therapy and need a next chapter of embodied action. Sensitive high achievers, changemakers, and heart-centered leaders who are learning to sustain their energy without burning out. Those who want to build a lifelong relationship with themselves grounded in somatic intelligence and authentic growth.


Includes:

Weekly or bi-weekly 60-minute coaching sessions

Deep embodiment work: Personalized yoga, breathwork, mindfulness, and energy regulation practices that evolve as the client evolves

Customized Integration Tools: Worksheets, journaling prompts, somatic check-ins, and tailored resources (playlists, articles, podcasts etc.)

Text/email support between sessions: Unlimited light support

Two personalized recorded meditations/mantras: Tailored to current life themes (grounding, expansion, confidence, etc.)

Quarterly Reflection and Reset Sessions: Every three months, an extended 90-minute session to reassess goals, embody the growth, and set fresh intentions

Closing Radiance Session: A deep reflective session celebrating growth, identifying new anchors, and mapping the next self-led phase

Investment: $3,300

Payment plans available

About me + my philosophy

I’m not going to sugarcoat it -

I’ve faced some very challenging life circumstances and I’ve had to do a lot of work on myself. Deep childhood wounds, generational trauma, immigration as a teenager, grief and loss, multiple career changes, divorce, moving across the country and back… No matter what was happening in my life, I always felt pressure to appear confident and well-adjusted.

Wearing the mask of a high-achieving professional, I devoted myself to my career as a way to avoid dealing with my Self. But it wasn’t sustainable. Burned out and stuck in severe people-pleasing, I realized I didn’t know how to make decisions – and had never truly felt like my life was “mine.”

It was as if I was waiting for someone else or something else to tell me how to fix it. But nothing that others offered me ever truly worked. Intuitively, I knew I needed to build skills to make decisions aligned with who I am and who I want to become – and to finally move toward meaningful action. My journey has been neither easy nor graceful and I couldn’t have become who I am today without many phases of significant support.

In addition to a serious amount of specialized therapy, I started a yoga practice. The practice didn’t come easily to me — I didn’t trust my body.

Honestly?

I was the weirdo who didn’t talk or make eye contact with anyone in yoga class for…at least two years. I was intimidated by the instructors, felt weird in the tight clothes, and often almost didn’t make it to class because of my overwhelming anxiety.

But over time, with good instruction, I built body awareness, reduced my anxiety, and learned how to regulate my nervous system. I became a certified yoga instructor in 2013 and added additional certifications in pranayama, meditation, and reiki.

Looking back, I cannot even believe I was ever the person who was scared of yoga!

Still, I am not the stereotype of the typical yoga practitioner. I teach in thrift store clothes, I am short and have T.Rex arms, and I don’t go around telling everyone they need to try yoga.

Yoga isn’t a panacea, but firsthand, I know it’s a powerful system for growth and change. While it takes many years (if not a lifetime) to develop a deep yoga practice, there are many helpful tools and lessons within the umbrella of yoga that can provide insight into embodiment, decision-making, and problem-solving and lead to authentic contentment within.

At Half Light Coaching, I offer a down-to-earth, body-centered approach to growth. Our work together blends real conversation, mindful movement, breathwork, yoga philosophy, and practical tools to help you connect with yourself NOW. I’m here to walk alongside you as you clear out the noise, trust your own wisdom, and take the next right step — whatever that looks like for you. You don't have to have everything figured out. You don’t even need to own a pair of leggings. You just have to be willing to begin.

Let’s get your burning questions answered…

  • The premise of embodied, yoga-centered life coaching is that everything you need to make informed, authentic choices can be accessed through harmony between the body and the mind. When we lose contact with our body’s cues we, instead, exist in the mind, repeating patterns that ultimately leave us feeling unfulfilled, numb, and burned out. You are not broken and you don’t need another product or “hack” to fix your life or to make you more productive. You simply need to learn some sustainable skills to bring yourself back into alignment with your body so that you can make embodied choices, which are authentic to you.

  • The pace of contemporary life is not conducive to listening to your body’s cues and we often lose contact with our own autonomy and feel a lack of agency because we are so indoctrinated by what the world is telling us to do. Sometimes, we think if we could just remove ourselves from our lives - our jobs, our families, our relationships - we would come back rested, stronger, more capable. But, no matter how many self-care days or vacations or retreats we take, we come right back to our overextended lives feeling depleted, close to burn-out. Most of us are so numb to ourselves that we cannot even identify or express what we want or need. We’re just too tired and change seems impossible.


    The solution isn’t the next gym craze, fad diet, or miracle pill. It’s attunement to yourself. But even yoga has become a corporatized product, a “fitness regime” that waters down the true wisdom contained in the intent of that practice. Embodied, yoga-centered life coaching allows you to access the aspects of yoga that might best benefit you now in a one-on-one, accessible format with personal guidance in a collaborative, supportive environment.

  • Through strategic guided conversation, we clarify what issue or obstacle is hindering you and what progress toward success looks like to you. Then, based on your goals, I draw from yoga, mindfulness, and somatic techniques to create a personalized framework to begin implementing into your life. This framework allows you to build habits that attune you to what your body needs and skills to adjust accordingly, giving you loving control over your own nervous system. Through incorporating these habits and skills over time you become more attuned to what you authentically want and need. This, ultimately, allows you to make clear, embodied choices that honor who you are.

  • If you feel like your life is mostly okay, or generally together, but you still feel “off,” this is for you. I am passionate about working with people who are not typical contemporary yoga practitioners. So if the idea of yoga or going to a yoga class has ever made you feel anxious or overwhelmed, but you feel like you could really benefit from yoga, I’d love to work with you.

  • I offer in-person sessions and virtual sessions, or a combination of both, depending on what best suits your needs and schedule. If you're located in the Portland Metro area, in-person sessions can take place in your home, or at a location convenient to you that I will suggest. Additionally, I have access to a full yoga studio and a home studio, should you prefer that.

  • No! Whether you have an established yoga practice, or you’ve never stepped foot in a yoga class before, you will benefit from personalized guidance. As a licensed yoga teacher of over twelve years, I strive to meet each person where they are, using strategic modifications and supportive props based on your particular body. I truly enjoy working with people who are not the typical “yoga person,” as I often feel that way myself. Coaching with me is more like hanging out with someone who just really likes yoga and wants to share it with you in ways that support you right now. You will be surprised at what you can do!

  • Yes. I have over a decade of experience as a high school teacher and love to work with adolescents toward establishing healthy embodiment, setting goals, and making life choices. When working with minors, I design a package that suits parent and child and each party signs a mutually-agreed upon contract that sets clear expectations and healthy boundaries. Contact me for more information.

  • Talk therapy is a highly valuable tool that can provide critical skills. Therapists are trained and licensed to evaluate and assess someone’s mental health in order to provide treatment. 

    Life coaching is NOT therapy and it is not an adequate substitute for therapy. As a coach, I do not provide treatment. We work together to find solutions. Additionally, since coaching is not a regulated health profession, I am free to draw on alternative techniques such as meditation, chanting, and energy work, to enhance my offerings. Coaching is NOT an appropriate space to process deep emotional trauma. 

    If you have already done therapy, coaching can be highly beneficial as it allows you to participate in finding your own solutions, providing concrete steps toward your goals. It is action-based, allowing you to practice implementing changes until they stick. 

    If you’re not sure if you need coaching or therapy, I am happy to refer you to a licensed therapist who can guide you to an informed decision.

  • No. Yoga Therapy addresses specific health conditions and mental and physical ailments using yogic principles and practices. Yoga-centered life coaching is about developing habits that include yoga techniques in order to move toward self-directed goals.

  • This is a complex topic that deserves in-person discourse. I am always open to this discussion. However, the short answer is yes and no. The yoga we have come to know in the West isn’t just “our” cultural appropriation of it. It was presented to the West as an appropriation of a part of ancient Vedic and Hindu culture that was combined with ideas drawn from Western gymnastics and bodybuilding. Contemporary Western yoga was cultivated by Indian nationalists in recent history (19th and 20th century) and brought to the West by members of the elite class who traditionally did not practice yoga. It is not the “pure” form of yoga as practiced by Vedic or Hindu people for centuries. So yes, yoga as we know it is a cultural appropriation of a Hindu practice that cannot be separated from its religious and spiritual contexts. And no, it is not cultural appropriation in the sense that it was presented to the West as an already-appropriated practice separated from its origins in Hinduism. Since Hinduism is a non-proselytizing religion, to become Hindu in order to do yoga “authentically” would be equally - if not more - offensive. 

    This article addresses how the yoga we know is less than 100 years old. This article from reputable Indian publication Open, addresses the “hybrid mongrel” that yoga currently is. Another Open magazine article by Meera Nanda, professor of history of science at the Indian Institute of Science and Research in Mohali, presents some interesting facts about the history of yoga that may challenge your assumptions. There are several helpful reddit threads under r/yoga that address cultural appropriation in yoga that include input from Indian and Hindu-identifying voices. For instance, Here is a reddit thread regarding the use of “namaste” in yoga classes. Point being, this is a complex topic with many conflicting and valid perspectives!

    Now, if you want to discuss the corporatization and corporate appropriation of yoga, that’s a whole other topic…