Beyond Research

Well, if you’ve landed here, I’m guessing you want to know what I get up to outside of research. Fair warning: this is a research-free zone.

My main refuge from all the thinking and hustle of work is yoga and meditation.

It started at 17, on my first trip to India — somewhere between the chaos of the streets and a quiet morning practice, I was hooked. I did a short teacher training back then but kept yoga as a private ritual rather than a profession. That changed in 2024. After a conversation with a postdoc who was visibly worn down by academia, I realized how much grad students could use this. So, in the middle of my PhD, I signed up for a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Pranashanti Yoga School in Ottawa (thankfully on their scholarship). Balancing intensive training with research was… an experience. But would I recommend it? Honestly, yes. In 2025, I began teaching a flow class at Carleton’s Athletics Center.

This February, I finally made it back to where it all began: two weeks in Rishikesh, India practicing along the Ganges at sunrise. It felt like closing a loop I’d opened at 17.

Rishikesh, India, 2026 — at a jungle ashram in the Himalayan foothills.

If our paths cross at a conference and you need a stretch between talks, you know who to ask!

Warrior II pose at a lakeside cottage in Antoine-Labelle, Quebec, Canada — Fall 2024.