I like to say that I discovered yoga in 2001, but that Yoga discovered me in 2009. Having dabbled on and off for years, it wasn’t until I went to India and took a class in Varanasi (more on that story here) that I became hooked. I couldn’t explain what had happened; the teacher’s instructions weren’t very clear, flies buzzed relentlessly around our mats and I was stiff as a board, but I instinctively felt that I was onto something, and for the rest of my trip tried to make space every day to recreate the postures that we had been shown.

One of my favourite yoga sayings is ‘never try to have yesterday’s practice’. In other words, don’t assume that you’re the same person that you were the last time you practiced, or even the same person as you were yesterday. We all have our stories- by teaching us to be more present, yoga reminds us that we are all shifting like sand. Change is possible. As the wonderful Norman Blair, yin teacher extraordinaire, says, ‘shift happens’.

In 2012 I deepened my commitment to my practice by teacher training with the wonderful Ryan Spielman and have been teaching regular classes ever since. In the years since, I have trained in vinyasa flow with Seane Corn, teen yoga with Veronika Kloucek, yin yoga with Norman Blair and pregnancy yoga with Uma Dinsmore-Tulli. An eternal student, I have also (to date) taken workshops, immersions and intensives with the likes of Danny Paradise, Matthew Sanford, John Scott, Matthew Sweeney and Kino MacGregor.I am currently studying the yoga sutras with Mysore-based teacher Arvind Pare. 

You can find me teaching online yoga, or in person in South Devon.