Mery held her first asana at an Eastern Philosophy class at the University of Southern California in 1998. This class, inspired her to take Yoga from the Sivananda Center in Madrid, Spain where she lived and completed courses for her degree. Mery has also practiced Ashtanga and a style of vinyasa yoga taught by teacher Gabriel Hall in Long Beach, CA. In Long Beach, she taught Social Studies, ESL, and Yoga at an at-risk alternative high school for both teens and adults. She feels very fortunate to have begun a yoga program there and that experience helped pave her path to continue offering yoga to people of all ages! Mery attributes Yoga to giving her a more, healthy, fulfilling, and spiritual life. Yoga has been one of her biggest blessings in life. Most of all, it helped to balance her career as a school teacher and after leaving that profession helped to balance her newly found roles of mother, wife and yoga teacher. She completed the Yoga Loka Teacher Training from Kim Orenstein in 2006 and is currently completing her Itsy Bitsy Yoga® certification with Helen Garabeidan.
