Yoga & Yoga Trainings
I have been practicing yoga since 2002 and teaching since 2015, previously called Sphinx Yoga. Current yoga offerings include the Imbolc 2025 workshop, Inner Hearth Yoga sessions in February, the BYRP training and a workshop in the pipeline with the wonderful Fay Rosamond (contact us for waitlist).
You can also join me for a class as part of an event , at festivals, and during private or corporate bookings. I co-lead the 200-hour YTT and teach on the 300-hour ATT at Yogasara, and deliver trauma-informed yoga teacher trainings at BYRP.
Below is a little more about my relationship with yoga if you’re interested!
Strength in softness, freedom through devotion, divinity in the every day
Yoga illuminates the playful truth hiding in even the darkest, most complicated parts of our human experience.
MY JOURNEY WITH YOGA
I discovered yoga at age 15 at a very dark time. It transformed me, little-by-little, taking me on a life-long journey of healing, awakening and self-discovery. It is a deep honour to be able to share some of the practices that have helped me so much (with gratitude to my teachers).
Yoga is the container that holds me, sometimes gently and sometimes fiercely. Yoga has given me the tools to do the work that so needs doing. This includes the work of exploring my own social location in relationship to yoga and how to honour the incredible depths of this path (work that BYRP attempts to address).
Through becoming more embodied, self-aware and present to life, I have a deeper understanding and healthier relationship with both suffering and joy.
I have experienced that once you recognise the interbeing of all things, on a visceral as well as cognitive level, you find a burning inside that sparks a revolution from the heart. I believe that yoga urges us towards justice, honouring unity through championing diversity and loving all of life. Yoga invites us into an infinite dance of acceptance and change.
लोकाः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु
Lokāḥ Samastāḥ Sukhino Bhavantu
WHAT YOGA MEANS FOR ME
In my teaching I lean into the philosophies of non-dual shaiva tantra and the sri vidya path. I seek to offer a practice to awaken our body-minds to presence so we can more fully embrace this great mystery. I aim to facilitate compassionate connection to self, others, nature and spirit. It is my intention to create a welcoming space for everybody, although I appreciate intention does not always translate into impact and welcome feedback on this.
Yoga is a creative practice of curiously & courageously opening to what is. Through this ancient and ever-evolving wisdom we find ways to connect to, nourish and empower ourselves and others in radically authentic ways.
The galvanising potential of yoga to ignite change in big and small ways off of the mat is of key importance. By revealing our interconnection with nature and the communities around us, yoga can guide us to value justice, compassion and skillful action. We start to see more clearly the systems that cause suffering for so many, including our beautiful planet, by creating illusions of separation, which manifest in very real inequalities. Our yoga practice helps us to develop the tools to face the shadows within and without.
Yoga is not about feeling good, it’s about waking up to reality beyond the stories and veils. It’s about truly living this phenomenal life!