About

Franciska is an Ayurvedic Practitioner and herbalist, yoga teacher, and sound healing facilitator. She has been teaching yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises for over 20 years and has a specialized focus on pelvic floor health and movement. Her Ayurvedic practice focuses on personalized digestive health, herbal support, lifestyle (re)education, and spiritual support. 

Journey

Art, movement, spirituality, and science have been the through lines of Franciska's life. Her journey began with Buddhism, eastern philosophy, and earth traditions in her teenage years and continued through her college years at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She trained in the traditional practice of hatha yoga at the Sivananda ashram where she discovered, among many other things, the healing power of meditation and mantra. Franciska also has a background in dance, specifically Flamenco and experimental.

After over a decade of teaching, a complicated birth (and a resulting pelvic floor injury) led Franciska to begin intensive study of the pelvic floor, herbal medicine, pre/postpartum healing, and teaches Pelvic Floor Yoga and Pre/postnatal Yoga. She's trained with herbalists and top Ayurvedic doctors in the US and India. In addition to meditation and breathing, she uses tuning forks, mantra therapy, and other sound applications for subtle body healing. 

In her "other life," she works as a video producer supporting national and global nonprofits in the area of women's health and rights, healthcare, and education.