A first-generation immigrant, woman of color in science, and lifelong yoga practitioner, Whitney is well-accustomed to the journey. She was introduced to yoga as a preteen shortly after emigrating to the US, and it greatly eased this profound transition. She took her first hot yoga class two weeks after a major invasive surgery, and knew she would be dedicated to this practice for the rest of her life. Various transcendental experiences as a teenager revealed that these states can be attained through pranayama and meditation, which intensified her practice and literally changed her mind.

A meditation practice of Neti Neti (Sanskrit: नेति नेति) “not this, not that” took her along the road less traveled, where she surrendered her seat at medical school and devoted herself completely to yoga for the next several years. Drawn to the discipline of tapas and the intelligence of transitions, in 2015 she began studying Ashtanga yoga with Kino MacGregor, then under Swami Atma in Rishi Kesh, India, first in Ashtanga, and later in Meridian Yoga, Dharma Yoga, and Bishnu Gosh lineage (formerly Bikram). For over a decade, she has led classes and workshops in Washington D.C. and abroad, integrating somatic bodywork and sonic therapy for a full spectrum practice. In 2020, she received Usui-Ryoho Reiki transmission from John Latz.  

Whitney holds a Master’s of Science in biochemistry and applies her understanding of anatomy, proprioception, and neurobiology to her teaching. She integrates sound healing, Reiki, Ayurveda, and Jyotish into her classes to honor the ancestral practice of yoga as a sacred, decolonial tradition. 

Her lifelong aim is to reconcile science and spirituality, and she embraces frequency medicine as a potential bridge between them. She has lived and directly witnessed that every act and experience can be medicinal when approached with intention and mindfulness. Only through the power of yoga was she able to undo the doom-diagnosis narrative fed to her by doctors. She surmounted the many prognoses they gave her, emerging with only breath as her medicine. 

She curates each offering, from challenging asana flows to sonic ceremony as an invitation to explore deep stillness, discipline, and liberation. Her classes aim to reconnect students to the boundlessness of Being. Her highest priority is to hold sacred space in an increasingly secular culture so we may become whole, together.