Yoga is the missing puzzle piece between body and mind.  

I began my yoga journey when I was 15 years old in a small community hall in the UK, in order, mainly, to avoid doing PE outdoors in winter. However, there was something in the Trakata (fire gaze) that finished off each class that captivated me beyond wanting to avoid running around a cold football pitch. This was my first introduction to the heavenly silence of sitting.    

In my late teens I discovered Buddhism. I both practiced and studied Buddhism throughout my twenties gaining a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Gender Studies and Religion. The philosophies of the East have given me a solid framework from which to understand myself, my reality and those around me.  

This self-reflective practice cultivated a calling for me to begin to integrate what I resonated so deeply with in the East with our current modern lives in the West.  At the time that translated as becoming a Child Psychotherapist and gaining an MA in Child Psychotherapy. For the following ten years I worked with children and young people who have experienced complex and developmental trauma. My work in the trauma and attachment field once again segued into the practice of yoga. Like an old friend, yoga began to resurface in Western research and literature around trauma. Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk, amongst others, became a bastion for the use of yoga in healing from trauma. Yoga as a link between healing the body and mind was being uncovered in the West.   

Motherhood became the unexpected bridge for me to deepen and more explicitly connect the dots between the yoga of the East and our modern lives in the West. The birth of my babies led me to the depths of postnatal depression and brought me back to healing in its most personal and raw form.  During this time I trained as a yoga teacher and journeyed back towards health. I began the practice of Ashtanga yoga (despite my lack of inclination to physical exertion) and found an avenue to channel both my lived and learned experiences of yoga, healing and Western modalities of care. 

Becoming a yoga teacher for me has given me the opportunity to amalgamate my life's learning. To master and share all that I know to be true in the pursuit of healing both myself and others. In my classes you will hear and feel me weave both Eastern philosophy and Western psychologies of mind. Above all, I want to provide a safe and sacred space. A space with kindness at its core from which to sit, breathe, move, heal and transform.