My yoga journey started back in 2015 when I found taster sessions at a peace festival and felt a sense of calm and groundedness. Since then, my practice brings me back to that feeling. I started to find myself, a strength within me, and a willingness to open a conversation with my body and my mind. Yoga became a tool that I used to help me find calm and balance within, and has helped me through periods of poor mental health.

The space on my mat that yoga classes offered me at that time and still now is a place to try to reconnect my mind and my body, to listen, receive gratitude from myself, accept, and learn.

I believe that yoga is for everybody, and I try to make my classes as accessible as I can. I encourage students to come as they are to class and hope to offer a nurturing place where they can just be.

Outside of teaching, I work as Administrative Assistant for Nourish Yoga Training and Studio Manager for Every Body Studio. This includes general administrative support, inbox management, support with class schedules, and writing and uploading bi-weekly class descriptions for the Community Library. I have 10+ years of experience in administration within the Charity sector and Higher Education working with research groups tackling how to make the world a better and safer place. I pride myself on being well-organised and effective at my work. I volunteer at OSARCC, a charity close to my heart and have recently become an active member of the Yoga Teachers Union. I have first aid and mental health first aid training and have, prior to teaching, completed an introduction course to psychodynamic counselling.

Qualifications

• Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200 (Registered Yoga Teacher 200 Hours)
• Enhanced DBS

Training

• 200-hour Teacher Training (Yoga Alliance), Yoga Quota/Nourish Yoga Training 2020
• Yoga Alliance CE Hours/300 hours:
• Teaching Inclusive Yoga.. Sept 2020 (Nourish Yoga Training)
• Yoga, Trauma & the Nervous System. Nourish Yoga Training. Jun 2021 (Nourish Yoga Training)
• Professional Development & Mentoring Program. Jun 2022 (Nourish Yoga Training)
• Teaching Yin Yoga. Feb 2022 (Nourish Yoga Training)
• Introduction to Restorative Yoga. Feb 2022 (Nourish Yoga Training)
• Vinyasa Immersion. Jun 2023 (Awakening Yoga Academy)
• Meditation & Breathwork. Oct 2023 (Awakening Yoga Academy)
• Daily Sadhana & Body Reading. Nov 2023 (Awakening Yoga Academy)

Other training:

• Trauma and teaching relationships, Dr Theo Wildcroft, June 2020
• Emergency first aid at work, November 2021 +MHFAT
• Workshop: Reflecting on Roles, Nourish Yoga Training, Jan 2022
• 38h specialist training in the Violence Against Women & Girls sector with OSARCC covering sexual violence and abuse and the skills required to respond to survivors (2021-22) - This includes ongoing clinical supervision
• Healing Trauma Through Yoga: A TCTSY E-course Oct 2022
• Awakening Yoga Vinyasa Immersion - Awakening Yoga Academy 2023

Experience

1000+ hours of teaching
Currently teaching 12 regular classes a week

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