I love handstands and moving my body and feeling strong and flexible. I love helping people get stronger and fitter, teaching handstand skills or guiding them through a yoga practice.
I’ve always enjoyed moving my body but spent my 20s either running, swimming or chasing cardio in the gym. I found yoga in my late 20s and my relationship with my body drastically changed. I stopped punishing myself with exercise and through my yoga practice started to tune in to what my body needed. I studied with many ashtanga teachers including Manju Jois, David Swenson, Paul Dallaghan, Graeme Northfield and Ryan Spielman with whom I did my first teacher training in 2010.
The first decade of my journey as a yoga teacher included the birth of my two children, and this gave me new insights into the difficulties of maintaining the discipline of a regular practice with the demands of parenthood, as well as an understanding of how helpful that practice can be. Over time my ashtanga practice and teaching adapted to the ways in which my own needs changed. I started to realise that as I age the most beneficial approach for me and many of my clients in midlife is to focus on building strength to fight the natural decline in muscle mass as we age and manage fluctuating hormone levels through regular exercise.
In 2020 I started practising the Day1Yoga method with Day Christensen, being drawn to the physicality of her handstand practice, her inspiring attitude, and her methodical approach to treating studentsβ pain and dysfunctional movement patterns. Her method helped me address dysfunctional movement patterns of my own, and achieve handstand skills that I had not thought possible. I joined her first teacher training program and became a Day1Yoga coach at the beginning of 2023. I am the only DAY1YOGA qualified coach in the UK.
