Internationally renowned fitness professional best known for creating Forrest Yoga, a yoga style based on Hatha yoga. She has been published in magazines and papers worldwide, including frequent contributions to Yoga Journal. She released the book "Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit" in May 2011. At fourteen she took her first yoga class on a dare. By the age of eighteen she'd become a certified instructor. She went on to study medicinal practices around the world from traditional Native American medicine to the Japanese practice of Reiki.