“Your life is an occasion... rise to it!”

Mona came to find a passion for yoga through playing competitive sports and required yoga cross training. Mona has been a devoted yogi for 15 years and has attended classes, events, trainings, and workshops in the thousands! She is a 200-hour certified Yoga Alliance instructor currently finishing her 500-hour certification with the goal of hosting both teacher trainings and retreats. Mona has specialty certifications in Yoga Nidra, Trauma Informed Yoga, Yoga for Public Service professionals, and SUP Yoga.

Mona hopes to provide relief and healing through the practice of yoga. Yoga has taught Mona that the benefits of coming to the mat extend well beyond anything physical, yoga is the total package, truly ‘yoking’/joining mind, body, breathe, and soul. She frequently shares with others that yoga saved her life. In struggles that seemed impossible to “survive,” Mona found that her mat provided grace, space, peace, solitude, strength, clarity, and most importantly, taught her the powerful life-force of breath (pranayama).

Yoga teaches you to breathe through discomfort, through difficult postures… and that, transfers directly off one’s mat. If you can learn to breathe through the struggles of life, both physical and mental, then invariably, you will have the fortitude to not just survive, but to thrive.

Off her mat, Mona also teaches spin and HIIT classes, she is an adventure junkie, avid skier, snowboarder, surfer, paddle boarder, runner, hiker, backpacker, outdoor enthusiast, reader, thrill-seeker, and animal-lover. She is a 7th generation Colorado native with Blackfoot Indian heritage, wife, and mom to three AMAZING children! Mona is a former roller derby athlete who travelled worldwide competing. You may also recognize Mona from the CBS reality TV show, “The Amazing Race - Season 22,” where her and Beth, a lifetime dear friend and roller derby teammate, traveled the world.