About Me

I began practising yoga in 2016 while I was studying for a degree in Chemistry. University had made me unmotivated, lonely and depressed, and I really needed to find a way to feel confident in myself again. I finally took the plunge to attend a class organised through my students' union and was expecting something that involved mainly stretching and meditation. Whilst these things were involved, I found the class way more challenging than I anticipated and I stumbled and sweated my way through it. As someone who had never been particularly sporty, I began thinking that maybe yoga was an ideal form of fitness for me as it combined breath, meditation and movement.

Ever since, I've had a regular practice and even became involved in the student society that organised yoga classes at university. After graduating, I decided that I wanted to spend some time travelling India and completing a teacher training course. Sadly, just weeks before my flight everything shut down due to COVID 19 and I was forced to cancel my trip. The school I was planning to attend, Sampoorna Yoga in Goa, offered me an online course instead which I agreed to. Although it's not quite what I had planned, I'm really grateful that I still got to train as a yoga teacher and can now begin this new journey. I'm hoping to reschedule my trip and attend an in-person course at Sampoorna in the near future. 

Over the years I've dabbled in various styles including Ashtanga, Kundalini and Yin, as well as the more general types like Hatha and Vinyasa. It's too hard to say which is my favourite as they all offer my body and mind their own benefits, and the thing I love about yoga is that I can adapt the practice based on what I want and need at that time. My training focused on Ashtanga and Vinyasa, however the freedom to be creative is something I really enjoy when designing a class. I always want my students to be creative in their own practice and encourage them to find what suits their body.

I'm very interested in anatomy and I continue to read up on this topic all the time, so I'd say my signature teaching style is incorporates this. I want to encourage safe, functional strength and flexibility in my students' bodies as well as my own so that we can keep practising long-term. Other than yoga, I love strength training and hiking to keep myself fit. Most importantly, I believe one of the best things we can do for ourselves is to meditate and practice mindfulness. My classes always include a short meditation and/or a breathing exercise, one of my favourites currently being a technique called yoga nidra or 'yogic sleep'.

With the current situation being so uncertain, I'm spending most of my time enjoying my own yoga practice and teaching some classes online. Right now I'm living in Northumberland but planning to move to Bristol around September, after which I hope I will be able to start teaching in person! Once I have some more concrete plans I will be updating this website regularly with the details, so stay tuned!