You are stronger than you’ve been told.
You are capable of healing more than you’ve been shown.
You already hold the keys inside you.
Why I Created Daily Downdog
In 2005, I began sharing this path with others, guiding thousands of students through yoga, meditation, breathwork, and mindful movement under the name Yoga with Aria.
For two decades, I witnessed people from all walks of life reclaim their bodies, their calm, and their potential.
Now, through Daily Down Dog, I am expanding this vision and making the tools of healing, energy sovereignty, breath, and mindful movement accessible to anyone ready to move beyond limitations — physical, emotional, or energetic — and embrace what is truly possible.
Meet Aria
My healing journey didn’t begin in a yoga studio, but rather on my 14th birthday. I was walking through a crosswalk when a Suburban speeding over 45 miles per hour hit me without slowing down.
The SUV skidded 80 feet before stopping, and threw my body across the street.
Everyone told me I should have died.
Doctors proclaimed that I would never walk normally again and that I would live an immune-compromised and limited life.
But I didn’t accept that story.
Instead, I rebuilt my body — with breath, love, and a relentless curiosity about what was possible.
After a week in ICU, a month in the hospital, three months in a wheelchair, and six months in a full-body cast, I began re-learning how to walk again, joined the local gym and took up bodybuilding to rebuild my atrified physique.
Over the course of the next 4 -6 years, I underwent two corrective surgeries on my femur. Life was a lesson in patience and gratitude, during which I explored swimming, hiking, bicycling and dance.
Ten years after emerging from the full-body cast, I discovered yoga and qi gong. I learned new movement and breathwork techniques that helped shape my transformation and reinforced my belief in mind over matter.
What You'll Find Here
At Daily Down Dog, you’ll find:
- Free guided meditations and breathwork resets
- Grounding energy practices for daily life
- Yoga flows and Qi Gong sequences
- Movement meditations that integrate breath, body, and soul
Each practice invites you to breathe deeper, move freer, and remember the healing power already living inside you.
My Invitation to You
Healing is not just a dream.
It’s not reserved for the few.
It’s your birthright.
I’m honored to offer you the tools, practices, and space to walk your own healing journey — in your own time, and your own way.
Start with a breath.
Start with a step.
You’re already on the path.