In 2010, Colette’s parents brought her to her very first hot yoga class at a studio called Sunstone Yoga located just outside Dallas, Texas. The rest is history! Yoga became her space of solace and grounding as she navigated her teen years, often taking classes before and after school as soon as she could start driving.
In 2020 Colette began practicing at PLAY, and in 2021 she went through PLAY’s 200 Hour Teacher Training. In 2022, she began teaching classes.
In addition to teaching yoga, Colette is also a 500 Hour PMA certified Reformer Pilates Instructor at Club Pilates Del Mar and Club Pilates Oside. In fact, it was Pilates that led her to discover PLAY in the first place! In 2020 she met Monique Saunders while working at Club Pilates San Marcos. Shortly after, she took her first class with Jesse Macchio and immediately recognized our studio as a very special place. Colette feels grateful and blessed to now consider PLAY her yoga home. When she is not on a mat or a Reformer, you can find Colette dancing with Play Hard Dance Company, led by Janelle Murphy.
Colette’s favorite part of teaching is helping build and participate in community, as well as witnessing engagement shift in the body and mind to enhance awareness and improve quality of life. Her teaching style is based on alignment, center-leading movement, and easy-to-understand language. As a guide, she wants to help you discover what Yoga means for you, yourself.
For Colette, Yoga has always been a space of meditation, exploration, joy, and ultimately a practice of letting go. PLAY’s dedicated, kind-hearted yogi community continues to inspire her endlessly. Finding her place in PLAY is one of her greatest blessings in life!
