My path with yoga started in 2016, when I was a 23 year old people-leader struggling to find her footing in a male dominated industry. I had moved over 8 times in under 4 years as a veteran, college graduate, and newly employed technical manager. I knew I had things on the right track in life—a stable, well-paying job, a respectable reputation, a home I owned all on my own, and even a new puppy. However, I couldn’t figure out why I felt so hollow—so unsatisfied, when left to my own thoughts late at night.

At the urging of a close friend, I started Turning Strawberry in 2017 as a blog to help me channel my thoughts. With aspirations of someday starting a non-profit, Turning Strawberry was a one-sided letter-to-self that would hopefully help someone to feel a little less alone if they were going through something similar. I was too young for a mid-life crisis, but I certainly wasn’t holding up very well deep inside, and I didn’t know why.

Over the last almost-decade, Turning Strawberry has progressed from a semi-anonymous platform where I wrote notes about surviving life in industry, to the business name under which I launched my first spiritual health and wellness campaign, Soul Star Unlocked, in 2022.

As a practicing professional engineer and a certified yoga instructor and holistic nutritionist, my methods combine principles of East and West—spirituality married to clinical science. As the teachings have become more refined, I decided to rebrand Turning Strawberry in 2023 to Grounded Yoga & Nutrition, now known as simply Grounded. Focused on building and repairing the foundation in body, mind, and spirit, we cultivate a healthy muladhara, a connection to Earth. By staying grounded to the earth, we are employing protective measures for when things inevitably go wrong.

Thank you, for being here, and for your trust. It is by being Grounded, that we can align, attune, and ascend, in body, mind, and spirit, and I am here to guide you along the way.

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xo Andy
Founder, Head Coach & Mentor