Hey, I’m Mona.

I am a Wild Woman devoted to helping you find the courage and confidence within to create your own wild path.

I create sacred spaces that bring you home to your body and your inner wisdom. I connect you with a community of loving and supportive women. 

From childhood, there was an expectation placed upon me to be the perfect Chinese daughter who would make her family proud by growing up to become a doctor, lawyer, or accountant.

But for as long as I can remember, I was headstrong in doing things differently. I wanted to have crazy colored hair and dance with eyes closed. I had no desire to wear frilly dresses and sit at the piano. I wanted to jump off cliffs and run through the jungle.

“Mona, you’re too wild!”

I heard this constantly while growing up and it was meant as a criticism right before being guided back to my seat at the piano. I dimmed myself down again and again. It’s taken years and years to rediscover and reclaim my wildness.

In January 2015, I felt an unshakable knowing that I had never experienced before. Coming from a lifetime of indecision, distrust in my own abilities, and lack of self-esteem and confidence, this was something different. It felt big. I had never been so sure of anything else in my life up to that point. This knowing inside me pointed me to become a yoga teacher.

Yoga opened the doorway to the spiritual path that I’m now walking. It was a spiritual awakening.

It was simultaneously the picturesque scene where the clouds parted to reveal the sun with an otherworldly chorus and also being dragged into the depths of myself, unearthing everything I had squashed down, denied, and swept under the rug throughout my life. All of my pain rose up to the surface, demanding to be acknowledged, felt all over again, and healed. It was like ripping open every wound that never fully healed properly, so that I could look it in the face with a chance to create new thought-patterns, habits, and a completely new way of being.

• I got certified to teach yoga and trained in various formats including Ashtanga, Yin, and trauma-informed.

• I worked with a life coach and learned who I was beyond my job title.

• I started going to therapy and realized the magnitude of adversities and complex trauma I’ve faced in my life. I realized I was in a toxic and abusive relationship, found the courage to leave, and did everything I could to heal.

• I realized I had a shopping addiction when I saw my credit card debt reach $10,000, and changed my entire mindset around money and got out of debt.

• I studied, experienced, and explored countless alternative healing modalities. I read countless books about spirituality, business, and psychology.

• I manifested new love into my life.

• I followed my heart to Costa Rica and met my spirit guides. I did a psychic development course. I pulled countless tarot and oracle cards for myself and for others.

• I trained to become a women’s circle facilitator and certified life coach.

• I stopped playing small, thinking I didn’t deserve to live in paradise or make money doing what I love. I quit my 9-5 corporate job and followed my dream of living in Southern California.

Every step of the way, I’ve chosen to keep healing and keep growing while remembering that I am perfectly imperfect just as I am.

I’m here to guide you back home to yourself.
Your truth. Your intuition. Your body.

It can be playful and light.
It can be deep and transformative.

I know what it’s like to have to hide my true self and my wildness to meet others’ expectations.

I know what it’s like to not be able to make a decision to save my life and to look to everyone else for the answers.

I know what it’s like to feel like I’m not good enough.

I know the freedom, light, and possibility on the other side.
Knowing that you are neither too much nor not enough.
Knowing that your unique gifts are exactly what the world needs.

I create a space for you to remember
your own wild wisdom
your inner goddess
your wholeness.

Trainings and Certifications

• 200-Hr Registered Yoga Teacher with Amy Beth Treciokas, Yoga Now

• Yin Yoga Certification with Darlene Van Der Hoop

• Mindful Resilience Trauma-Informed Yoga with Veteran's Yoga Project

• Women's Circle Leader with The Wild Woman Project

• Life Coach through International Coach Federation
  

Art, Design, and Photography

• Bachelor of Fine Arts with emphasis in Visual Communications and Photography from School of the Art Institute of Chicago

• Wedding and event photographer since 2010

• UX/UI Designer since 2012