Sandi knew in her early twenties that she wanted to be a midwife, but decided that she had some learning and growing to do first. After some less than exciting experiences in academia at UGA and UMass, and a short career as a performing and recording singer-songwriter, she was fortuitously nudged into teaching yoga when her yoga teacher asked her to sub a class at the last minute.  When it turned out to be the most natural thing she had ever done, she knew this was an important path to follow and soon received teacher training at Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville in Buckingham, VA in 2000.

The real training began when teaching opportunities seemed to come out of the woodwork, and a 20-class per week schedule brought Sandi into contact with populations of diverse needs—including pregnant women.  It was a magical moment of connection with one pregnant student that sent Sandi onto her next path toward becoming a prenatal yoga teacher and labor doula. In 2004, Sandi attended Whole Birth Yoga teacher training, drawn to its holistic approach, with Robin Sale in Santa Cruz, CA and that same year attended doula training and later became certified by Doulas of North America (DONA).

Since then, Sandi has continued practicing yoga, studying yoga with favorite teachers Sean Tebor and Shiva Rea, teaching in various locations around Atlanta including Jai Shanti Yoga, Emory and Georgia State, and enjoying being a part of the grand mystery that is birth.

After attending 40something births as a doula, Sandi has now embarked on the next step towards becoming a midwife: attending nursing school at Georgia State, after which she will attend graduate school for nurse-midwifery.

As a teacher, Sandi’s intention is to create a sacred space in which practitioners of yoga can tune in to and follow their own instinctive wisdom, becoming more fully connected to the present and to the source of the breath.