I've been a Yoga practitioner since 1995, and a teacher since 2012. I trained as a Yoga teacher with the Devon School of Yoga from 2011-13, receiving my 500hr teaching diploma. (I was also a long-term student of the DSY founder, Duncan Hulin, from 2005-2015.)

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From 2012 - 2022 I taught regular weekly Yoga classes, one-to-ones, in-depth workshops and courses around Devon (including a few spots at the Devon Yoga Festival) and also taught at a Yoga retreat centre in Thailand in the winter of 2016-17. Yoga remains my foundational practice after over 30 years of personal practice. I was blessed to encounter a wealth of authenetic, experienced old-school Yoga teachers not long after moving to Devon; in later years my commitment to Yogic practice and explorations took me to Portugal, London and - most impactfully - to Maui, for a transformative month at the end of 2015..

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From Duncan Hulin and his Devon School of Yoga, I received a wide-ranging in depth Holistic Yoga education; but over time I also specialised in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga for several years: I've studied Ashtanga with Nancy Gilgoff in Portugal, Devon and Maui; with David Williams in London, with Doug Swenson in Devon and with Andrea Durant in Devon. On Maui, I discovered Jennifer Lynn's Wisdom Flow Yoga classes, which opened the door to my own ongoing practice to become more feminine, nurturing and intuitive. My practice remains rooted in Ashtanga, but a softened, lunar, feminine approach which arose from my own experience of practice, body, needs. 

 

Yoga for me has been about a holistic, embodied healing practice, opening the door to deeper meditative experience and health. I became increasingly drawn to approaches which honour the feminine, and which validate the individual needs of the practitioner rather than imposing external rules and standards on everyone. This in turn led me into a more earth/nature based spirituality, rather than many of the traditional Yogic teachings (which often seemed to condemn the feminine, and the bodily and intuitive states, and often seemed to maintain a hierarchical structure which did not resonate with me), as my spiritual foundation.
You can read more about my path here.

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ONE-TO-ONE YOGA TUITION: 

A great way to get more individual attention & modifications tailored to your specific needs, great for building confidence if you're a beginner & great for developing your practice whether you're new to yoga or have been practicing for years...

Enjoy the benefit of more individual attention & adaptations for your particular needs:
One-to-one classes are a great way to get some more personally-tailored yoga: I can show you how to adapt postures to suit your own physical needs (I'm particularly experienced in dealing with lower back & hip issues but can advise on all sorts of other issues too); this can be especially  useful if you want to come to group classes where it is not always possible to get a lot of personal attention. If you have a particular health condition or injury you are recovering from, I can give you some specific adaptations so that when you come to group classes you will know how to practice the postures safely for your own particular needs.

Build confidence & experience if you are a beginner:
If you are new to yoga and feel a bit self-conscious about coming to a group class, some early one-to-one tuition can ease you into this wonderful practice and give you the confidence to join a group class without feeling lost.

 

Develop your own yoga home practice:

One-to-one classes are a great way to help you develop a home practice routine: I can help you decide on a realistic time & plan a sequence or variety of sequences, and give you ideas for how to vary this over time if you wish. One-to-one classes are also a great way to improve your technique and develop your practice further. 

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