The values that weave through my work and life are;
Authenticity brings joy
Simplicity is a superpower
Knowing your inner cycles is a pathway to peace.
I have been teaching yoga for 8 years and have supported hundreds of practitioners in classes, retreats and trainings. I teach yoga to help people come back home to their bodies. My classes are a mix of everything I know to positively support the body, mind and spirit combined.
Specifically, I have trained in vinyasa, forest, hatha, yin, yoga energetics and even SUP yoga. However mostly I would suggest coming to a class to find out through feeling. What I am especially known for is my ability to hold space. This means to create something that is beyond and around the poses.
I am a firm believer that to hold space effectively we must allow yoga (and life) to be paradoxical. My sequences are simple yet intelligent. My practice is as light as it will go deep. Both/and gives us room to be.
For adhoc updates on weekly classes and life as it unfolds sign up to my newsletter or follow me on Instagram.
As well as a yoga teacher I am an anthropologist. My research is about cycles, menstruation, psychology, and women’s health. In 2022 I qualified as a cycle awareness practitioner. Living in alignment with my own inner cycle and seasons informs my life, work and how I run my business.
I am training for a diploma in transformational coaching. To be honest, I am not entirely sure about the word transformational. At best I see transformational as a quiet internal shift that happens gradually and then all of a sudden. I will qualify in the summer and am looking forward to weaving this way of supportive individuals develop into my existing work.
Professional Qualifications
-
Diploma in Transformational Coaching
Animas, 2024
-
Cycle Coach Practitioner Training
Clare Baker, 2022
-
100hr Forrest Yoga & Body Psychotherapy Mentorship
Sandra Robinson, 2021 - 2022
-
MSc Psychological & Psychiatric Anthropology
Brunel University, 2020 - 2022
-
Level 1&2 SUP Instructor
ASI, 2017
-
50hr SUP Yoga TTC
KiteWest, 2016
-
280hr Yoga & Energetics TTC
Cat Kabira, 2016
-
MA Psychology
University of Edinburgh, 2009 - 2013
3 ways to work with me
Join a retreat, training, or workshop.
Sign up for a season of Ground & Grow.
Or we could work 1-1 together.
Storytime
I began practicing yoga over 12 years ago whilst at university. I had been active and sporty my whole life, so didn't arrive to yoga with big expectations of it being a physical challenge. I just wanted to relax a bit and calm a 20 year old anxious mind. I underestimated yoga’s potential on both accounts.
At the time I was studying psychology and I have always been interested in topics of living well and how we heal. In the beautiful way hindsight does, it makes sense that yoga is a path I may have stumbled across. However, often we don't see the corners until we are around them. Those first few yoga classes were one of those corners.
Gradually my yoga practice became a part of my every day and my interest in health and wellbeing spurred on. I went to Bali to train as a yoga teacher, stayed to teach on a tiny island over there and ended up spending hours out on the water paddleboarding. I moved back to the UK having trained in both.
Over the years that followed, pursuing work that felt authentic to me became a necessity. I built a thriving yoga career in London, founded a social enterprise come paddleboarding club, burnt out a little from all of that building. Let go of things and rebuilt things, decided to teach fewer classes and instead more retreats and trainings. I went back to university to get my masters, experienced heartbreak, found solace researching the cycles of women, moved to Portugal, trained to be a coach. I am still learning all the time. But I really believe in these practices; yoga, cyclical living, being outside often and finding work that you love, as tools to do just that.
I love swimming when it’s cold and cups of tea in bed first thing. I am a big sister, a daughter, a cousin, and a romancer of my best friends. Wanderlust is my most consistent vice. I have found homes and loves in many places. I am from London but currently live in Lisbon.