About Me
I have been practicing yoga for over 15 years and have always been interested in how the body affects the mind and vice versa. I have been fortunate to travel extensively and learn about myself and the world around me through experience, this in combination with a degree in Sociology and Politics has taught me the beauty that lies in observation. When I returned from my travels I trained as a teacher of Religious Education and Philosophy and enjoyed learning more about spirituality, ethics and moral conundrums with the students that I taught. In 2016 I experienced a overwhelming desire to return ‘home’; I gave up my career as a teacher, left Malaysia and moved back to Stroud. Although at times this transition was more difficult than I had anticipated, yoga supported my transition and allowed me to listen to my body and what it was telling me.
I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn how to grow organic food in a way that supports soil health and vitality. I now work at Stroud Community Agriculture and feel privileged to experience the seasons so profoundly. When I feel moments of self-doubt it is yoga that reminds me that I am on the right path.
Although I have been practicing yoga since 2004, it wasn't until 2016 that I began to see yoga as an integral part of my life. In 2018 I completed The British Wheel of Yoga foundation course and in April 2019 I completed my 200 hours (Yoga Alliance Professionals UK accredited) teacher training certificate (TTC) in India. My approach to yoga is one of self-inquiry; yoga is not about creating the perfect shapes or indeed the perfect body, it is a tool to teach you to respect and support the body that you have been given. Yoga is a tool to show you how we can be both strong and supple, overwhelmed and grounded. Most importantly, it is way to help you accept exactly where we are; for that is where we are supposed to be.
All around us nature follows its regular rhythm: it has a time for energy, growth and vitality; a time for relaxation and plenty; a time for storing and harvesting and a time for withdrawal and solitude. In my classes we honour these cyclical rhythms which align us with the changing energies of nature and the seasons. Each class is designed to improve your physical strength and flexibility and bring balance and harmony to your life. In the word of Donn Farhi, ‘the practice is the reward - there is as much pleasure in digging a hole for a sapling as there is in admiring the fully grown tree’.
