For more than two decades, a deep curiosity about life and its miraculous unfolding has guided my exploration of therapeutic yoga, meditation, pranayama and the body’s innate pathways to awareness, connection and healing.
For over 20 years, yoga has been a path of devotion and lifelong learning through practice, study and teaching. It has taught me to appreciate and work with the body-mind as a profound source of wisdom, and to recognise the capacity each of us to experience deep awareness, connection, healing and joy.
Much of my learning on this journey has unfolded during time spent in India, through periods of ashram life, long retreats, Ayurvedic processes, and through close study of yoga’s traditional teachings. I hold deep gratitude for the teachers on this path I’ve had the grace to learn from. Clive Sheridan, Sri Sakthi Amma, Louisa Sear and Lucy Roberts, whose wisdom and devotion have shaped not only my learnings, but how I understand what it means to practice and live with reverence, humility, attention - and a loving sense of sweetness :)
Seva, or service, has been a huge part of this ongoing learning. Over five years with A Sound Life, I shared trauma-informed and therapeutic yoga and meditation within women’s refuges, rehabilitation centres, hospitals, disability communities and adolescent mental health settings. I’m deeply grateful to have been a part of the teacher training team, supporting yoga teachers to offer these practices in ways that were adaptive, inclusive and responsive. I carry the same gratitude for my time in Tanzania with ASL, sharing yoga and meditation with children and their community. These experiences continue to humble me, reminding me that the heart of the practice lies not in what we know, but in how openly and wholeheartedly we meet one another.
This work profoundly shaped the way I continue to share and teach. It taught me to meet the person before the method, to listen with empathy and attune to what may be needed, and to honour the many ways each of us may experience and seek safety and connection.
The journey to motherhood has shaped the practice in another way entirely. The teachings have moved from the quiet of the mat into birth, sleeplessness, tenderness, the practice of ongoing surrender and the daily rhythm of giving and receiving. It continues to remind me that devotion is not separate from daily life, but can be found within its most intimate, mundane, imperfect and beautiful moments.
My teachings and offerings today bring together the traditional practices of therapeutic yoga, meditation and pranayama with somatic processes, grounded in a respect for the nervous system and trust in the quiet intelligence of the body-mind. I have come to understand these practices not as things to attempt to master, but as lifelong invitations to turn inward and listen - deepening our relationship with ourselves, with one another and with the wisdom that lives within each of us.
Through these ancient traditions, I have come to recognise that we each carry the potential to awaken more fully in this lifetime, to appreciate the miraculous beauty of our human existence and deepen our connection to it, moment by moment.
As a natural continuation of this lifelong inquiry, I am currently studying a master’s degree in psychotherapy, deepening my personal and professional understanding of somatic healing and the relationship between the body, mind, lived experience and connection.
After all these years, I remain a student first, continually learning from these powerful practices, my teachers, motherhood, and from the people I have the pleasure to work with.
Should we have the opportunity to work together, I would be honoured to hold a safe and supportive space for you to explore how these practices may bring greater connection, clarity and joy into your life.
