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Victoria’s passion for diverse movement styles began as a child. Despite being an excessively clumsy kid and breaking her arm three times before learning how to properly fall, she excelled in mixed martial arts and horseback riding at an early age. These activities provided her with an escape and an emotional outlet to process the difficulties of growing up in a home impacted by addiction. In college, Victoria worked as an outdoor program instructor and led various adventure trips in the Blue Ridge Mountains including backpacking, whitewater kayaking, and caving. While completing dual bachelor's degrees in biology and psychology at Sweet Briar College, she discovered that yoga helped her find relief from chronic anxiety and and a restless mind due to childhood trauma and neurodiverse characteristics (sensory processing sensitivity, hyperactivity, etc.)

Consistently practicing yoga postures (asana) and breathwork (pranayama) calmed her hyperactive mind, significantly improved her ability to regulate her emotions, and taught her distress tolerance. Driven by an analytical mind and a strong sense of justice, Victoria worked as an HIV Research Coordinator at an LGBTQ+ non-profit after college. Meanwhile, she earned her 200-hour Power Vinyasa certification from master teacher Mimi Rieger and began teaching yoga in Washington D.C. in 2018.

In 2020 Victoria earned her CPC (certified professional coach) from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and devoted herself to teaching yoga full-time.

She completed her 500 hr Functional Ashtanga Yoga Training with her yoga mentor, level 2 authorized Ashtanga teacher Michael Joel Hall in 2021. FAY applies the scientific principles of functional range conditioning alongside the traditional Ashtanga yoga system. In 2022 she completed her Rocket Vinyasa level 1 (100-hr) with David Kyle, and later that year she traveled to Mysuru, India to study with Sharath Jois.

As a dedicated practitioner, former medical researcher, and multi-passionate movement enthusiast Victoria appreciates the benefits of both a scientifically-informed, systematic approach to movement, as well as exploratory movement that facilitates proprioceptive learning and a creative flow state. She aims to plant mindful seeds in vigorous yet playful classes designed to help people cultivate strength, functional mobility, self-awareness, and joyful bodily autonomy.

No stranger to career pivoting, in 2022 Victoria took a two year-long sabbatical from her life in Washington D.C. to travel and practice with ashtanga teachers abroad. During that time, she began working remotely as a freelance writer and content creator. Victoria's extensive travels in India, Jordan, Occupied Palestine, Japan, Puerto Rico, and Southeast Asia, immersed her in a variety of cultures and led her to confront the stark parallels of injustice around the world, and the interconnected nature of liberation. This deepened her understanding of individualism and privilege, and the critical need for a shift towards equitable community development in the West. Victoria returned to the DMV area in 2024 and strives to combat unjust systems and racial inequity by demonstrating and encouraging collective responsibility and radical compassion-centered action. Victoria believes the “point” of yoga is freedom, and as Toni Morrison once said "The function of freedom is to free someone else.”

Victoria considers herself a lifelong student of yoga and remains devoted to studying and sharing the practice that has so deeply impacted her life with anyone who seeks to learn in perpetuity.