Suzanne’s Journey to STrength-based Ease

Her journey began over a decade ago as a stressed-out, pain-filled young mother and museum professional in a German Ashtanga studio. There, she rediscovered a sense of grace she had missed since her years of dancing ballet—but what stayed with her most deeply was the sense of inner quiet and steadiness the practice offered.

In California, Suzanne encountered Anusara Yoga, whose alignment-based and heart-centered approach helped her overcome chronic pain and transform her relationship to both her body and life’s challenges. This foundation in precise alignment, therapeutic awareness, and embodied philosophy continues to inform everything she teaches.

In recent years, her work has expanded to include Steel Mace Vinyasa, where she now serves as Head Coach. What began as a curiosity for functional strength evolved into a powerful extension of her yoga practice—one that develops rotational strength, joint integrity, and nervous system resilience. Rather than departing from yoga, the steel mace became a new lens through which she explores flow, alignment, and adaptability under load.

From a young age, Suzanne made sense of the world through movement—through the body’s relationship to gravity—and through a refined visual sensitivity to line, shape, and color in space. Growing up, she spent weekends immersed in the vivid worlds of Kandinsky, Monet, and other early modern artists in Munich’s museums. These abstract landscapes felt as alive to her as the mountains, forests, water, and sky of the Bavarian Alps that surrounded her daily.

Later, she studied interior design, art, and architecture at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Today, she brings this rich, multisensory perspective into her teaching—blending yoga, strength training, and steel mace movement—to help you build strength without rigidity and access the subtle sweetness of being fully present in your body, your breath, and your senses.