An invitation to land back into your body.
Float through flows to find ease, using breath to create space and expand.
Join me at class for nourishing play and rest!
Through connection, community and ceremony of rolling out my mat, yoga has created a space to come home to myself. Holistically exploring asana (physical shapes), pranayama (breath practices), meditation and philosophy have helped tend old wounds, offered comfort, softened edges and made space to be open and anchored to the present moment in this wild ride we call life.
Influenced by playful, embodied and functional movement, my offering is centered on how your body feels over how your body looks, greeting rich sensation with soft awareness.
Approach & Trainings
I have walked into classes and not felt welcome, or like I didn’t fit in.
It is impossible to be ‘bad’ at yoga. I aim to create an inclusive environment where there’s no hierarchy of movement, to share accessible ways of dropping into the body and quieting the mind.
Everything is an invitation. If you want to rest into a bolster for an hour in a class labelled as ‘flow’ you are so welcome. Subtle / not so subtle movement guided by your breath is actively encouraged before arriving into a puddle of rest. We all need different things.
Sometimes things get a ‘bit weird, in a good way’. We’ll often move around shapes, expanding and contracting to make things work for us because wow no one knows how something feels in your body better than you.
All of this is offered as a practice of connection and awareness of our bodies, breath and each other, exploring ways to remember your own innate wisdom and magic. Cool eh?
↑ Photo by Camille Bieber
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50 CPD training & mentorship with Paula Andreewitch exploring somatic enquiry-based teaching pedagogy
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A 10 hour immersion into Katonah Yoga theory with Selena Garefino
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A 20hr deep dive into trauma aware embodied movement, mindful assists, polyvagal theory and anatomy with Calli Popham.
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Embodied yoga nidra and Restorative Yoga immersions with Pip Roberts, exploring practices promoting deep restful states.
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Guided by Calli Popham and Sophie Whippy. The training included exploring flows inspired by embryology, cellular meditation, naval radiation, functional movement, deep dives into the first, second, third and forth trimesters, postnatal pre-hab + rehab and the politics and trauma of birth.
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Guided by Waking Yoga via Practice Yoga Austin. The training involved four months of self-inquiry, yoga and evidence-based mindfulness and somatic practices.
Approached through a social justice lens with the intention of creating accessible spaces for all. Inclusive language, tapping and somatic practices were shared to explore self-regulation of the nervous system through movement and breath.
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Completed Stretch London, under the guidance of Carl Faure and Calli Popham. The training offered a foundation in modern postural yoga through philosophy, embodied vinyasa, functional movement and somatic exploration.
Grateful for my teachers past and present, and their teachers before them, who bent the rules to cultivate space for playful approaches to self-agency.