I attended my first yoga class when I was about 19. It was in a small church hall in Hamilton, New Zealand with what felt felt like at the time, a wizened older lady with long flexible limbs. I don’t remember much about the class, other than it consisting of slow, long held poses.  I do remember Savansana. I lay with my feet turned away from the front of the room, listening to the rain pelting down on the iron roof top. I didn’t realise I had travelled  so far away until the sound Om echoed around me.  I opened my eyes to find everyone sitting up and chanting together. I left feeling embarrassed, yet totally blissed out.  The next time I visited yoga was a Sivananda yoga class in someones living room, on Old Farm Road, near my university. I was a social worker in a respite home, supporting at risk children, and was working closely with a young lady who was struggling with an eating disorder and anxiety to keep moving. I signed us up to these yoga classes once a week. It worked wonders for her at the time, peaked my interest, and opened up an easy conversation between us on the drive home. We formed a valuable connection through those classes. 

 

I committed to a regular yoga practice while living in Hong Kong a year or so later. I was fortunate enough to be able to practice and train with teachers from all over the world. Back then my practice was meaty, about physical strength, working hard, sweating, and often moving quickly. Even though I loved my spiritual practices, I kept them very separate from my yoga.  For me yoga was just physical. Yoga crept up on me though (as it does) and by the time I began to teach in 2007 my life had shifted dramatically.

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My classes are largely influenced by the Forrest Yoga method which is a practice based on the pillars of breath, strength, integrity and spirit. I have been working within this style for the majority of my teaching career and I love how grounding and versatile it is.  My practice is conditioning, and centred around deep rib expanding breaths. Slow, steady, mindful, nourishing and sometimes playful movements. An exploration of softness within strength. This is where I teach from. 

 

I have taught literally thousands of classes over the past 16 years. I have taught classes in the largest studios in Hong Kong and London, assisted workshops and trainings around the world and have led numerous workshops, retreats and Yoga Teacher Mentoring Programmes.

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The ways you can practice with me are;

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