All round yoga class including asana/postures, breath, mindfulness and relaxation to encourage self-awareness within a therapeutic framework.
Last updated April 26, 2021, 2:41 p.m. UTC
Fun classes for joy and wellbeing where everyone is welcome.
I took my yoga teacher training at the Sivananda Ashram in India in 2005 and more recently I have been taking courses with Peter Blackaby and Kristine Weber to further my understanding of yoga and the nervous system, chronic pain and brain optimization. What I have learnt over my many years of studying with different teachers is that yoga can help us all feel better in some way. We don’t have to be super flexible or fit, we can do simple, gentle, quiet movements and still feel the benefits. All we need to begin is the courage to be still, to listen, to breathe and to take an interest in how we feel in the moment.
The yoga that I teach encourages us to enquire into our relationship with our body, our mind, our emotions, our community and our environment. As we begin to explore these relationships we notice that our perception of them influences how we feel and behave in the world. Only then is it possible to break down old unhelpful patterns in our system and replace them with new healthy ones so that we feel more at ease. As well as being a powerful transformational tool yoga balances the desire for change with acceptance and the felt sense that we are already enough just as we are. It is this balance between self-transformation and self-acceptance that is at the heart of my own personal practice and provides the inspiration for the classes that I teach.
In 2017 I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue. I remember one of my friends saying to me, “Now you have to put your yoga into practice!” and that’s what I did. I began to practice restorative yoga when I felt too exhausted to do anything else, I practised mindfulness and yoga nidra (deep guided relaxation) several times a day and alongside changing my diet and doing some therapy I began to get well. Being ill and my journey back to health made me embody what I teach and I am passionate about sharing what I have learnt because I know from my own experience that yoga can help us to set up an internal environment that makes it more possible for the bodies own innate healing abilities to start to work.
