YOGA & ME, YOGA & YOU

After qualifying with a 500 hour teaching diploma in September 2014 with the British Wheel of Yoga, I taught in and around Whitby, North Yorkshire before relocating to France in September 2020. I have undertaken additional training in Women's Yoga Therapy, Yoga Nidra and latterly Somatic Movement.

My yoga classes are suitable for all ages and all levels. They are taught in a slow considered style to encourage you to connect truly and deeply you’re your body, your mind, your emotions, your very soul. Integrating somatic movement you will connect and feel your body in a completely new way and learn to understand all that it is trying to tell you in a unique experience.

As a yoga teacher I firmly believe that EVERYBODY benefits from yoga whether it be physically, psychologically and / or emotionally.

Yoga is not just a physical practice. It works on the whole of the self, each and every layer - the physical, mental and emotional selves and all of the systems in the body that allow you to function as a cohesive whole. Therefore care must be taken at all times, treat yourself with kindness and care and gentleness, if something doesn’t feel right, causes discomfort or pain ease back or quite simply don’t do it.

Exercise Ahimsa, the first Yama at ALL times – non-harming in action word or deed and that starts with you. Forget the phrase no pain no gain, that is not a phrase to be used with regards to yoga, it is all about getting to know yourself, understanding yourself, listening to yourself and above all accepting yourself.

We all have things we can do with ease, we all have things that we can do with practice and we all have things that we are never going to achieve, living with that and accepting that is key.

Always work within your own range of limits and abilities for that specific time irrespective of what you did last time or what you may do next time, we can only ever work with the now.