Dedicated, energetic, and motivational personal coach, Tricia is devoted to high-quality, accessible yoga and mindfulness for all. Tricia inspires people to work differently than they’ve ever worked before. She creates a compassionate, supportive foundation for you to work on your muscles and heart daily as you build your overall strength to achieve beyond what you thought you could. If you would like to win a grammy, expand your dream into a business, feel inner joy, power, and possibility- let’s start now!
Students and private clients include: Lady Gaga, Chelsea Clinton, Whoopi Goldberg, Jim Carey, George Stefanopolis, Jon Bon Jovi, Bob Harper, Allan Cumming, Natasha Lyone, Janet Mok, Josh Lucas, Mx Vivan Bond, John David Washington, Brandon Maxwell, Diplo, Metallica, Lykee Li and Dua Lipa.
Tricia is a positive and passionate leader with decades of training in the wellness space. Tricia’s heart landed in New York City in 2001, and she began teaching yoga the following year. In 2003, she opened Bikram Yoga Lower East Side on a once forbidding block of the Lower East Side. Since then, yogis aspiring and advanced flock to the studio for Tricia’s particular combination of compassion, outrage, humor and hard-core fitness training. Tricia has inspired a loyal following among her students including celebrity clients.
Tricia engages children and teens mindful movement and breathwork to create communication and safe boundaries to empower children to make smart choices for themselves. Tricia trained at Karma Kids, Little Flower Yoga, and Street Yoga to address underserved areas and special needs populations including autism, reactive attachment disorders, anxiety, attention disorders, addictions and homelessness. Tricia was recruited in 2019 by New Design High School to design and implement a Mindful Movement and Breathwork program as a part of the IEP Curriculum.
Tricia started her career in the restaurant business. She ran her own sandwich shop until 1994 when President Clinton awarded her a grant to open a restaurant in an Atlanta Empowerment Zones. She turned that one restaurant into three, ultimately employing 100 people from that neighborhood.
Running a business at that pace led Tricia to her first Bikram Yoga class. The kick-ass workout appealed to the former college soccer player and in 2001 she became a certified instructor. In 2010 Tricia completed Dharma Mittra teacher training, deepening her dedication to cultivating compassion through yoga. Tricia has completed other trainings to expands her knowledge including Baron Baptiste and Fierce Grace Yoga.
For Tricia, success is predicated on the growth of her students and the health of her community. Her monthly Nite Sweats party has raised more than $100,000 within the past four years for the Lower East Side Girls Club. In 2012 Tricia joined the Girls Club’s Board of Directors, and directs their in-house yoga and journaling program. In 2009, Tricia began work with Street Yoga, a group that teaches yoga to youth and families struggling with homelessness, abuse, addiction and trauma.