Yoga Alliance Professionals Training Academy

My yearning to become a yoga teacher stems from my urge to want to help others live their lives to their full potential. One can only live in this way when they are free from the shackles of the own limiting beliefs. Yoga helps us to tap in to the intelligence of our mind, body, soul connection. In the west we are not taught this in school, which is a real shame. Trauma starts young, in our formative years and if the root of this trauma is not dealt with then it can manifest in a myriad of issues as we grow into adults. Trauma does not have to be extreme to make it valid. Each and everyone of us has our stories and we can either create a prison within of our own beliefs or a paradise where we can share of our full potential with others. My job is to help create a safe space where in one can move and breath and expand our awareness in order to heal and free ourselves from the limiting beliefs that tie us down and keep us from living in the present moment. I like to honour the cyclical law of nature. Its almost like I've come full circle, as my grandparents left the UK after the 2nd World War and took a leap of faith. They joined another family on a year long trip down from the top of Africa in a Unimog Overlander. They settled in Zimbabwe and had my mum in the mid 50's. They never returned to the UK, however here I am back again after being born & raised in Africa. Life sure can take its toll on our health, but it doesn't have to. If we are taught the right tools & techniques on how to manage the stressors of life then we can live abundantly. Unfortunately my father had not yet mastered that and suffered a life changing stroke at the age of 38 which rendered him partially paralysed. I was left to fend for myself from the age of 15. My mother succumbed to early onset dementia at the age of 50. I suppose this is the main drive behind my passion for helping others as all these things are avoidable. Awareness of ones body, thoughts, words and actions speaks for itself. I took a pledge to help mend the hoop of the people, for it is broken and the bird of humanity is tired of flying with only its right wing in circles. I am honoured to be living in a time when the left wing is slowly beginning to unfurl. Join me in the amazing window that we have to make a difference. My students feel seen and welcomed in my classes, the focus is very much on correct alignment but there is also a lot of play and a massive attention to breath and how we use it in connection with the mind body awareness. Every day I am in deep gratitude to my students, they are my biggest teachers and although I've seen some dark days, they are the reason for me continuing with my quest in life. I am in deep gratitude to my mother that stuck by my dad throughout the trauma and pain that his stroke had on our family and I am in deep gratitude for my dads developed enthusiasm for life and how he continues to trudge on through with only the use of half his body, the left side in tact. Sat Nam My first yoga class was at the age of 19 with Pat Deacon, Head of the Iyengar Institute of South Africa. She was my first teacher and I felt inspired by a women that was so much older than my parents but who could effortlessly stand on her head. I drifted in and out of yoga for the most part of it and in 2006 decided to go to India and spend some time in an ashram. I completed my foundation in classical Hatha Yoga and went back to the same ashram in 2009 to complete the Advanced training. In 2011 I went to California to study Bikram Hot yoga and after that Fierce Grace Hot yoga in London. In 2013/2014 I studied with Ana Forrest and completed the Foundation as well as the Advanced Teachers Training Courses in Forrest Yoga I completed various short courses and intensives with Shiva Rea and Manju Jois in 2016 as well as completed my Sound Healing training with Don Conreaux and became a Gong master in 2018. I completed my year long training in Shakti Dance with Sara Avtar (Kundalini Lineage - The Yoga of Dance) in 2018/2019 I offer yoga in many various styles through studio and private online zoom classes. I specialise in Sound Healing Therapy and Cacao Ceremony. I find great healing in teaching Mindfulness, Breathing & Meditation.