Gina’s training in all aspects of hatha yoga and meditation is extensive, beginning in 1999 with her first yoga certification program with Atlanta Yoga Fellowship/Peachtree Yoga Center under the mentorship of Graham Fowler and Elizabeth Nix. Her subsequent training in Anusara Yoga, over 1,000 hours, beginning in 2000, greatly advanced her asana practice and knowledge in biomechanics, methodical alignment principles, therapeutics, and Tantric Yoga Philosophy. In 2006, she became the first certified Anusara Yoga teacher in Georgia, and was a pioneer for the growth of this innovative hatha yoga school in Atlanta and the region. Though she resigned her license with Anusara, Inc. in 2012, she continues to draw deeply from the efficacy and potency of Anusara methodology.
Additionally, she began a regular meditation practice in 2000. In 2009, she became a student of renowned scholar and meditation teacher Prof. Paul Muller-Ortega, PhD, founder of Blue Throat Yoga, a school of sadhana in the Shakta-Shaiva Non-Dual Tantric tradition. After many years of devoted study and practice, she in 2017 she became an Authorized Teacher of Neelakantha Meditation as Taught in Blue Throat Yoga.
In 2021 she met kirtan artist Gershone Hendelberg and delved deeper into the transmission of vibration and sound in the offering of mantra music. Gina played drums as a teen and had long chanted mantras in her yoga and meditation schools. In her collaboration with Gershone she has found a joyful, creative expression and an avenue for communion that has inspired her ecstatic devotion and service.
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With mystical experiences from childhood and with an avid interest in spirituality as an early teenager, she found her home in yoga in her early 20s. Tantric Yoga Philosophy and practice ultimately resonated most deeply with its life-embracing, life-enhancing, and life-expanding orientation. She delights in the continual discovery of the parallels between the myriad mystical and wisdom traditions, and particularly resonates with the Celtic reverence for the cycles of nature.
Gina grounds her body and mind in attunement with the consciousness in nature through a dedication to Ayurveda, having completed Cate Stillman's 9-month Living Ayurveda course in 2013. More recently she has become an avid learner and devotee of light biology and the circadian lifestyle.
Her yoga journey continued in the crossroads between yoga and psychology, both for herself and as a teacher of yoga, under the mentorship of Livia Shapiro, becoming one of the first Affiliated Teachers with Applied Psychology for Yogis. Further, Gina has explored the deep feminine mystery teachings through Jumana Sophia's HER Mystery School.
Gina holds a degree in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia, with a minor in philosophy. She is also a Reiki Master and learned Thai Yoga Therapy from Saul David Raye in 2001, arts she no longer practices but whose studies inform her present day offerings.
All of these knowledge streams infuse Gina's transmissions, making her offering uniquely well-rounded, compelling, and transformative.
An E-RYT 500 and YACEP with Yoga Alliance, she teaches public classes, private sessions, and workshops, as well as modules for Yoga Teacher Trainings. She offers workshops regionally and nationally, and has presented at Atlanta Yoga Conference, Southeast Yoga Conference, Atlanta Women's Foundation Yogathon, Dirty South Yoga Fest, Mahabhuta Yoga Festival, the OM Festival, and more. Gina is a two-time lululemon ambassador, and a leader in the Atlanta yoga community, and was honored by her peers as a luminary in the Atlanta yoga community in Natural Awakenings magazine.
She wakes up every day to face the rising sun. Feeling the tremendous blessing of a life in surrender to the flow of Grace, her fierce and tender commitment is to serve planetary upliftment. May all beings be safe, joyful, and free.
