Being embodied is essential for staying connected with ourselves and understanding our lived experience. Life’s stresses can be pretty imposing, yoga offers a space to find ourselves amongst all of the noise. 

Our bodies crave movement, it is intrinsic to our health and wellbeing. I find it unsurprising that my body has lead me to many different movement practices throughout my life, but yoga has been a constant companion, a reliable way for me to reconnect and find calm.

I have practised many forms of Hatha yoga for over 30 years including Sivanada, Astanga, Vinyasa and Kundalini. Today my practice is inspired by Vanda Scaravelli, with her focus on the spine, gravity and breath. Combined with my dance background, my practice brings creative explorations of what it feels like to move intelligently, to be still and to breathe.

My background is in contemporary dance, teaching for 15 years and performing professionally, before working in higher education for the last 20 years. Balancing a deskjob with an innate need to move has been challenging but it has brought me back, time and time again, to my own yoga practise.

I trained with Catherine Annis and other inspiring teachers on the Intelligent Yoga Teacher Training programme, ‘a uniquely incisive, thoughtful and intelligent approach to yoga teacher training, driven by current scientific developments in anatomy and movement research’.

I am a certified yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance.