Yoga
Connect with your body, mind and consciousness — through the breath
Most of what makes a class work isn't the postures. It's what you're doing with your
attention while you're in them. I'll encourage you to practise with your eyes closed
and to focus on the breath as much as possible.
Starting from where your body actually is
Yoga for me - didn’t start with love.
That took me a long time to understand. I used to hate yoga — or rather, I hated flow, or what I thought flow was. I was new, my body wasn't ready for any of it, a lot of it hurt, and nobody ever mentioned that it wasn't supposed to. It all changed at Vikasa in Thailand, where I found out that flow didn't have to be fast, and that most of what mattered wasn't the shape at all. Today I practise every day, on and off the mat, and I love getting to share it.
The methods I teach
Hatha is the long one: slow movement and long holds, strength at the start and more stretching by the end, with breathwork and meditation built into the class rather than added on.
Flow links movement to breath, though not quickly — the holds are still long and the transitions deliberate.
Chill is closer to a meditation than to a class, with passive holds and the breath counted the whole way through.
Yin holds postures for minutes at a time, so you can stop working and melt into them. It's really about getting your nervous system to change gear.
Having trained at Vikasa, I often teach to their music, which runs on a metronomic beat that times the breathing and the holds. It sounds like an odd detail. It's also the thing that makes long holds and a steady breath possible.
Practicalities
Private sessions, one to one
Classes for companies and workplaces