About me

I share practices that not only help you become stronger and more flexible but also discover that the way you breathe can change how you think, that the way you hold your shoulders reflects how you hold your life, and that a few simple words can change your relationship with yourself and the world around you.

How I got here

Physical and emotional inquiry were part of my foundation from the beginning. I grew up with a mother who had attended the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram in Canada in the 1960s and a father who was a psychotherapist. Our household was one where both the wisdom of the body and the landscape of the mind were treated as worthy of exploration.

My fascination with language and consciousness began with literature and poetry, and after studying English Language and Literature at university, my interest deepened through years of watching how words could unlock or imprison people in ‘real life’ as I worked in various publishing and editorial roles. From managing high-stakes communications in counter-terrorism to co-authoring The Book of Rest (HarperCollins), I've seen how the right words at the right moment can completely shift someone's reality.

In 2014 I co-founded Restful Being, a yoga nidra training school for which I headed up branding, communications, and marketing, and I now serve as Creative Director at Soma - Listen. Feel. Heal., a wellbeing tech startup set to launch the first sound-healing-enhanced yoga and exercise mat.

I’ve practised yoga since the late 90s and in early 2013 headed to India to complete my teacher training. I've since spent over a decade developing a teaching style that honours both ancient wisdom and lived experience, and all the while I’ve studied and explored other movement practices such as Pilates, Barre, and calisthenics.

Often my classes incorporate a fusion of techniques and somatic enquiries that sit outside the ‘yoga’ label - in fact, there have been times when I’ve completely dropped the word ‘yoga’ from my work. I find the Western yoga tradition often contradictory and overly aspirational and have wanted to distance myself from it. But, the word ‘yoga’ still represents balance, harmony, self enquiry, acceptance, and simplicity - and these themes remain key to my teachings.

The anchoring, soothing, and future-focusing power of the practices I share became deeply personal when I navigated a difficult separation from the father of my two children. It was during this time that yoga, meditation, and breathwork revealed themselves not just as helpful and enjoyable, but as genuine lifelines - tools that could hold me steady while everything else shifted.

My approach

In my sessions, you will discover how moving your body with intention becomes a form of meditation, a sanctuary away from the chatter of your mind, and a means to reconnect with the earth under your feet and the vast spaciousness of the universe around and above you. You will grow stronger, more flexible, and steadier.

Through questions and enquiries, I also create space for people to examine the thoughts they think are "just true" and discover they're actually optional. To realise that their body and breath hold wisdom their mind hasn't caught up to yet.

In all my work, ultimately, I want to help people let go of the idea that they are a project that needs to be improved or that their life is a thing to be conquered or even understood.

Just being here is astounding.