Welcome!  I teach Sustainability Studies with a focus on building sustainable communities.  As a cultural anthropologist, I’m interested in how people all over the world are working to build healthier communities and to enrich the natural resources upon which they depend. I am interested in ways that yoga theory and practice can help to move people toward their sustainability and justice aspirations. My research has focused on communities in the North India Himalayas, the Missouri Ozarks, the wilds of Alaska and local communities right here in Olympia, Washington.