She studied with the accomplished teacher Emily Branden, with whom she extensively refined her skills of adjusting postures and built a solid foundation in alignment and mantra with. Shawn’s personal goal in the practice is to use the tools of yoga to connect the community. She is committed to aligning her students with their ability to share joy, build, and internal fire through asana, to gain resilience to global changes, and to build a strong physical core and energetic core of compassion for themselves and one another.