Shani has been a dancer for as long as she can remember. Dancing professionally taught her two things: that movement is her language, and that the dance world can be brutal to a woman's body.
She found yoga from a wounded, painful place. On the mat, her body was accepted. Her strength was a good thing. Movement stopped being about what it looked like and became about how it felt.
She went on to teach for more than ten years and earned a master's degree in dance movement therapy, a practice that almost does not exist online.
Aliven exists because every woman deserves what the mat gave her.