During the first six years of her sadhana (yogic discipline), she studied and practiced four styles of yoga: Kundalini, Tao, Tibetan and Hatha Yoga.  She studied and received tantric empowerments and initiation from Tantric Buddhist Masters, the Venerable Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche of Bhutan, His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche and Lama Tharchen.  She completed a three year training in conscious sexuality, received an initiation of Mary Magdalene from Flo Magdalena (Calhoun), a channel of Mary Magdalene, and began to share publicly this teaching and training. She co-founded the Seattle Yoga Center and ran practitioner houses in Seattle and Los Angeles. 

   

Rudi began to partner with her teacher, Mursshud, in 1990 to create a tantric school through their relationship, which Mursshud named TSiSoM (Tantric School of the inner Secret and the outer Manifestation), and also to create a yogic retreat center (now called Liberty Advance) in East San Diego County.  For three years, she taught yoga at their public center called uNIT, and at two aerobic studios in the San Diego area.  She developed a personal training course called You Are Responsible (Y.A.R.), which assists people in clearing and empowering their outer relationships and inner dialogue so to manifest what one intends in life. In 1992, she traveled to Japan with Mursshud to receive traninig in O’Sazuke, a healing modality that combines prayer and energy work.  Also in 1992, she began a course of study and practice in the Yungdrung Bön tradition through Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

   

At the end of 1992, she began organizing and teaching The Womb of Passage, which was a comprehensive course in yoga based on her own training in the four yogic traditions as well as the Sufi and Tantra paths, consisting of eight 5-day intensives.  At the same time, she developed a Yoga Teacher Training which offered a two-year comprehensive or one-year certification.  From 1993-2000, she participated in developing the World Evolution® Loft project, located in downtown San Diego, by offering yoga and Y.A.R. Training to the program which primarily provided access to computers, musical instruments and recording equipment, photography and video equipment, healing machines and other creative tools.  In 1994 she founded the new Liberty Advance on a 165 acre property in Boulevard, CA and began teaching yoga intensives there.  During the Sufi intensive of the first Womb of Passage cycle (1996), Mursshud initiated Rudi as a Murshida in Sheikh Hassan’s Sufi lineage.

   

In 1997 and 1999, Rudi traveled to Russia and Australia to teach workshops and develop TSiSoM communities.  In 2000 and 2001, she traveled throughout the U.S. and made a trip to India to continue this work, helping to ground the Traveling Love Show project which promotes artistic communication, yoga workshops and TSiSoM community development.

From 2003-2005, Rudi completed basic training in the Feldenkrais Method® and began integrating it into her yoga teaching and teacher training.  From 2007-2008, she trained at the mastery level in the Anat Baniel Method℠ led by Anat who was Moshe Feldenkrais’ prodigy.  During this period in 2005, Mursshud initiated Rudi as a Bopsa in Dr. Il Bung Seo’s Dharma lineage. 

   

Currently, Rudi is teaching yoga through the five-year comprehensive study of Rudra Yoga, Rudra Yoga Teacher Training, weekly classes and monthly workshops.  She teaches the Feldenkrais/Anat Baniel Method through weekly classes, monthly workshops, and private sessions by appointment.  She participates as a mentor in the New Being Project which is grounding the teaching and practice of conscious child-raising.  And she is training in Somatic Experiencing®  (SE), which is a method of therapy for trauma resolution.