My teaching is all about enjoying the practice but being clear that this is alignment based Āsana. So I use alot of words encouraging you to use your intellect in your practice to embrace your inner teacher. To tune in to how the pose feels in your body.
There are 3 things areas that inform my yoga teaching – Yoga history & Philosophy, Nature and Creative Living. The history of Yoga is a history of the World, no matter how we come to Yoga we are met with compassion, guidance on how to live a true life and are taught acceptance of our true selves. Yoga is a tool to use through life’s journey rather than a fix it all pill. Nature as in how we inhabit this world, how we show up. This involves the relationship to ourselves, to all human & sentient beings & to Mother earth herself. Creative living meaning the food we eat, embracing the ever seeking & curious mind, going for a dip in the sea no matter how cold, digging your hands in the ground, smiling at the sun and making time for music and dance.
After studying Social Science in the London School of Economics I knew I wanted a career that involved seeking to understand our united and communal role on this earth. My initial training was in the Yoga Rooms Dublin with Ciara Cronin, studied with Doug Keller, have been shaped & influenced by practicing with the wonderful Lou Horgan’s female centric yoga. Summers have been spent practicing with Sol Viegas enjoying the precise direction of the Iyengar lineage. In 2023 I studied Katonah Yoga with Abbie Miller. The techniques underpinning the Katonah practices come from classical Hatha yoga, Taoist yoga and the panpyschic vision belonging to western esoteric philosophy.
Each class with me is intelligent, fun, functional, but most of all, authentic.
I was a teenage mother, a wild child, a person who did the things most people wouldn’t and most certainly shouldn’t. Here’s the thing about life and it’s learnings, teachers take various guises, not just those who stand at the top of a class but people you meet along the way. In my case these are people who have helped guide my path when I’ve strayed (and my ability to stray is vast). As with all miracles, my kids have been my greatest teachers, they keep me in check and make me a better person. Each time I come to the mat I take away a renewed sense of peace and calm, a returning to myself. Yoga has offered me this opportunity to connect with my inner child. There is no option but to do the work, face myself, my whole self and accepting myself for who I truly am. In yoga terms this means embracing what’s referred to as the Shadow side. This has been my yoga journey. At the heart of everything I do is curiosity. This has brought me to some crazy places in the past but it’s also what brought me to yoga. A wise woman and good friend asked me to join her at a yoga class in Portugal. I remember stepping into the studio and seeing the other students and my wonderful teacher Sol, being nervous because I wanted to ‘be good’ at yoga but mostly being overwhelmed by the beauty of this tiny studio in the hills that smelled of oils and mats.
Like most people I came to yoga for the physical/ the asana practice. It complemented my running and I could fit classes in while the kids were in school. It took me a while but I began to realise yoga is so much more than the shapes we make with our bodies. As beautiful as those shapes are they are the prep for the real work; the inner work, and when that journey begins it’s transformative, mind blowing even. My dedication to yoga (which found me and not the other way round) over the past number of years has meant leaving the corporate world, training as a yoga teacher and teaching full time. I teach public classes in studios but outdoors is where I’m most at home, workshops, retreats & in office yoga.
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