I started practising yoga to relieve the symptoms of much illness after the birth of my son. It certainly worked and after a couple of years I began practising Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga under the guidance of world-renowned and certified ashtanga yoga teacher John Scott, completing his ‘Advanced Ashtanga Intensive’ in 2007 and ‘Ashtanga Vinyasa Intensive’ in 2008. I am fully qualified and insured with the British Wheel of Yoga  after having completed a 3 year teaching diploma study course with them through my BWY diploma tutor Swami Vivekananda Ma (Val Davies) and being awarded their Teaching Diploma.  I am also a member of REPS (Register of Exercise Professionals).

My inspiration for sharing the practice comes from my teachers, John and Lucy Scott, but I have also had the benefit of practising and studying with Sri K Pattabhi Jois (‘Guruji’ - founder of Ashtanga), Sharath (director/grandson) and Saraswati (daughter), when they visited London in 2005. I have also had the benefit of attending workshops with Manju Jois (son of ‘Guruji’), Danny Paradise, David Swenson, Lino Miele, Mark Whitwell, Richard Freeman  and Reema Datta and have completed ‘The Art of Adjustment’ Ashtanga Teacher Training with Mark Freeth in 2006 and ‘Anusara Module 1 – Teacher Training’ with Bridget Woods-Kramer in 2004. I continue my learning of this amazing practise mainly from my teacher John, from Lucy, from within and without.

I run regular Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga classes and workshops near my home in Northamptonshire and just across the county borders in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.

*According to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, the classical text on yoga, the purpose of yoga is to lead to a silence of the mind (1.2). This silence is the prerequisite for the mind to be able to accurately reflect objective reality without its own subjective distortions. Yoga does not create this reality, which is above the mind, but only prepares the mind to apprehend it, by assisting in the transformation of the mind – from an ordinary mind full of noise, like a whole army of frenzied and drunken monkeys  – to a still mind.* (www.hinduwisdom.info)