MONICA

I was born on 8.8.88 in West Plains, Missouri, USA. I moved to Kansas City after high school to attend the Kansas City Art Institute where I earned a BFA in painting. I spent a semester in Germany at the Fachhochschule Schwäbish Hall studying design and digital media. After graduating, I returned to Europe for a while and worked on farms and gardens in Belgium and Ireland where I learned from permaculture methods, and lower impact lifestyles... After that, I returned to the US, and spent some time living on the East coast in New York and Massachusetts. I lived and worked at the Kripalu School of Yoga and Ayurveda, where I later became a certified yoga teacher. Following that experience, I spent three months in India, during which I completed my first (and likely my last) Vipassana.