I joined my first yoga class around the same time the Internet took off. As an individual predisposed towards laziness, I thought yoga would be the ideal ‘fitness’ for me, because I’d heard that next to swimming and making love, it targets all the muscles, and mostly you just lie down. Suited me perfectly.
What I didn’t expect to discover in a yoga class attended by mostly 60-plus-year-olds, was a connection to my body that it had been yearning for.
As a teenager, I developed an eating disorder and had a horrendous relationship with Self. Through yoga, I found an appreciation of my body as a vessel that can do all sorts of awesome things, and more importantly, I started chipping away at the false narratives that I’d been housing, to discern who I confidently am!
Over time, my practice ebbed and flowed, but after discovering Jess’ classes (yes, the Movement Wisdom Jess) online in 2016, I decided to commit to yoga as my medicine of choice and started to hit the mat daily.
I became qualified to teach in 2018 through another training program, and left Australia to start a new and exciting life in Berlin, Germany. That new life included the job title of yoga teacher, where I established an incredible tribe of students who responded to my style of teaching, which was basically to encourage authenticity both on and off the mat.
When the pandemic hit, Jess told me she’d be moving her 200-hour training online; and asked me if I would like to be a part of it. I leapt on board. What an incredible moment in my life that became, looking back.
Being a part of Movement Wisdom Yoga is a dream come true for me! My personal knowledge of yoga in all its forms has developed exponentially since joining, and I love having the opportunity to guide new yoga teachers like yourself through their journeys both as mentor and also as community manager
Alongside Movement Wisdom, I teach every day on the communal farm and campsite where I live in Portugal.
My teaching style can be summed up in three Nirvana songs; Come As You Are, Smells Like Team Spirit (ok, I changed that one a bit), and Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam. And that third one basically sums up feelings I had for a long time about not being ‘yogi enough’ to become a yoga teacher, because I didn’t fit the mould I believed was required to help people uncover the incredible relationship between body and breath, and the profound learnings of this philosophical and spiritual practice. But the deeper I dove into yoga, I realized the mould doesn’t exist. I can be my own kind of sunbeam – and I am ☀️
The world is a greater place because yoga exists in it, and I am forever humbled and grateful that my spirit found yoga.
I live in a vintage camper van in Portugal with my husband, dog, and about 20 other hippie-types whom I call family. I'm a vegetarian, a movie buff, an ally, and a moon-lover who only wears stretchy pants.
My favorite yoga pose is Pigeon.
I know.
