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 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, a reliable way for me to reconnect and find calm.

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

My background is in contemporary dance, teaching for 15 years and performing professionally, before working as an academic registrar in higher education for 21 years. Balancing a stressful, desk job with an innate need to move was challenging but it brought me back, time and time again, to my own yoga practice. Burn-out, with its steady erosion of my self-confidence, sleep, and memory, pushed me toward making significant changes that have brought me back into alignment with my values and helped me reclaim joy.

I now work as a movement and breathwork coach in South East London supporting groups and individuals to regulate their nervous systems and to connect with themselves. Typically clients are seeking to develop their own embodied practice, to improve their breathing and reduce tension. I work with the overwhelmed and overworked; people in transitional stages who are searching for change, clarity, calm and deeper thinking; people who are burnt out and need to restore their confidence, rest, repair and recover; people who long to move, breathe well and be in their bodies as well as people with an existing embodied practice who want to expand their experience; and individuals who want to find safety and connection in their own body, perhaps after a long-term illness. My lived experience means that I can work alongside clients and class attendees with empathy and understanding. As a coach I am on your side, want what’s best for you and will support you with your own agenda.

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 200 hour certified yoga teacher and and 100 hour breathwork teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals.