Contrary to popular belief, yoga isn’t just about contorting the body.
The purpose of yoga is to seize and calm the fluctuations of the mind in preparation for meditation. Meditation is, simply put, the practice of conscious awareness. To be aware is to be awake. Through awareness, comes acceptance. And through radical acceptance, comes radical change.
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Where it all began…
My introduction to yoga began when I was a teenager living in Northern Ireland studying for my GCSEs. I borrowed my mum’s at-home yoga video and watched it on a tiny box TV with a screen smaller than the laptop I’m using to type with right now.
A few years later - 18, living in Canary Wharf, working for a law firm in London - I signed up to an unlimited trial month at a Bikram studio down the road…
I was hooked.
Yoga accompanied me through my early twenties in the form of traditional Hatha. Not that I knew what that was at the time. Without really understanding why, I followed my intuition and booked my first training in Bali.
A hobby turned into a career…
My 200hr YTT on a tiny island off the coast of Bali was fuel to a fire I didn’t know I had. One week after returning home to the UK I began teaching at my local studio. One studio became two, two studios became three…
Before I knew it a community was born.
It became clear to me pretty quickly that the next step was to continue my studies and travel to India to live life a little less conventionally…
My 300hr YTT and a Diploma from Rishikesh led me back to Indonesia where I lived and taught yoga on one of the Gili Islands.
This led me to host yoga retreats in the mountains of Sri Lanka, and eventually led me to the Sri Lankan coastline where I ran the yoga department of one of the largest retreat centres on the island.
The story continues to unfold…
From teaching hot yoga in chilly Belfast, to leading retreats in the misty Sri Lankan mountains, yoga has taken me far and wide, and transformed my life in ways I could never have predicted. As I grow and change, so does my practice.
Because yoga meets you where you are.
Whether I am leading a traditional Hatha class, or a Vinyasa flow, one thing is certain: my intention for every single class is to inspire conscious and passive observation. To gaze inwards without judgement. To appreciate the body exactly as it is. To accept the moment exactly as it is. And to acknowledge you are exactly where you need to be - exactly as you are.
Because that is all that there is, and always will be.
Yoga means many things to many different people. Yoga has meant many different things to me in many different stages of my life. The dichotomy of depth and simplicity that yoga encompasses is the reason why my infatuation continues, and remains to be such a huge part of the path that I am following.
If I ever have the pleasure of sharing a class with you as a student or as your teacher, just know that I am unbelievably grateful to share this with you. I hope that yoga can in some ways inspire you as much as it has inspired me. Because you never know, it could take you around the world.
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