The heart behind my teaching
Yoga has been far more than a series of techniques or postures in my life. It has been a way of understanding myself, navigating change, becoming more present to life as it unfolds.
A creative beginning
I grew up naturally drawn to the arts—dancing, singing, and painting from an early age. I went on to train and work professionally in dance, and studied fine art at college, where I considered a path in textile design, fashion, and art history. During this time, I became especially interested in Asian and Eastern art, eventually specialising in it. It was here that I first came across mandalas and geometric designs used in yoga and meditation traditions as tools for focus and reflection.
At the time, I didn’t know it would become significant later in my life—but something had been quietly set in motion.
Life unfolding
Near the end of my art degree, I was offered an unexpected job that changed my direction entirely. What was meant to be a short break became a long period of living and working in Asia, mainly in Hong Kong, for almost eight years.
During this time, I worked in the creative industry and also taught movement and dance, but my deeper interest began to shift toward health, wellbeing, and inner development. Eventually, I moved into the health and fitness field, working as a personal trainer, lifestyle coach, group instructor, manager, and pre-opening operations and facilities launch lead, for leisure, spa and fitness facilities across Southeast Asia.
This period gave me a grounded understanding of the body, structure, discipline, business start up and practical wellbeing.
Coming home to yoga
Returning to the UK marked a turning point.
A chance introduction to a personal development course led me into life coaching, which eventually opened the door to yoga, Ayurveda, and a more integrated approach to wellbeing. It felt like a moment where many strands of my life began to come together—movement, creativity, psychology, and a deeper interest in awareness and philosophy.
Teaching and development
I was fortunate to be guided by a teacher whose work integrated many disciplines as a teacher and healer. Her approach was broad, grounded, and deeply human, and she remains a steady supportive presence in my life. Over time, my training expanded through different lineages and approaches, including:
Classical yoga teacher training in India (Sivananda tradition)
Yoga therapy studies in the Krishnamacharya lineage
Breathwork and energy-based practices
Yoga Nidra training within the Satyananda tradition
Advanced pranayama studies
Kriya Yoga studies
Further exploration of Ayurveda, including classical texts
Alongside formal training, my work has continued to evolve through personal practice, teaching, and ongoing learning.
How I work now
Today, my approach is simple, steady, and grounded. I draw on classical yoga principles, breath awareness, and gentle, accessible practices that support people in reconnecting with themselves.
I am also influenced by a broader understanding of wellbeing, including traditional systems such as Ayurveda, which views balance as something shaped by daily life, rhythm, and environment. Alongside this, I continue to study and explore different perspectives on human experience, including astrology, numerology, Human Design, and related systems—not as fixed truths, but as lenses for reflection and understanding.
What supports me
I support my own wellbeing through regular practice, time in nature, long walks, acupuncture, and ongoing learning.
More than anything, it is continued practice that keeps my work alive and evolving.
where i am now
At its heart, this path has been a gradual unfolding. From movement and creativity, to structure and discipline, and finally to stillness, awareness, and simplicity.
My teaching now is an expression of that journey—offering space for others to slow down, reconnect, and explore their own experience more directly.
inspiring change
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Relax
If you become conscious of it, evolution - or any change - cannot happen without the necessary energy. Yogic relaxation is a concentrated form of rest and the charging force behind it. Do you know what parts of you need rest? Step 1, re-learn relaxation, a simple common sense way to joyful, healthy living. It will release tensions and spontaneously lead you into profound stillness deep within - the foundation for all yoga practice.
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Reflect
Do you know you are literally sitting on an endless untapped source of energy called kundalini - your own power source. You don’t need to get it from outside of yourself. When you organise and hold your focus for a substantial amount of time you plug into it, a door opens and everything can be explored: all internal movements directly observed and experienced, reflected on, understood and refined. If you are deeply involved in something, focus naturally comes.
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Refine
If you are alive and energetic liberation is a natural longing. If you long for it consciously it may find fulfilment. If you go through the life process unconsciously you may get lost in it. So what is binding you? What is compulsive in your life? What are you entangled in and currently limited by? If we unlock like this, layer by layer, you will become alive and energetic again. The highest and most important human value is freedom, and anything other than this causes pain.
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