I am a dedicated yoga practitioner and a passionate, experienced and fully qualified Senior Yoga Teacher based in Hackney in London, with over 16 years teaching experience and 800+ hours of teaching certifications.
I am proud to be recognised as a Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals and have also been honoured to be featured as Teacher of the Month in Yoga Magazine.
Discovering yoga was one of the best things that has happened in my life. I’ve been practicing yoga for over 24 years now and teaching for over 16 years, and feel privileged to be able to share the many wonderful benefits of this practice with others through my teaching.
I teach regular weekly yoga classes in London, as well as monthly yoga workshops and beginners yoga courses, mostly in East London, both in Docklands near Canary Wharf as well as in Hackney and Bethnal Green.
A full list of classes, upcoming courses and workshops is available here
I am also available to teach private one-to-one yoga classes in your home, at a small space in E14 or in Bethnal Green, or via Zoom, and Corporate Yoga in your place of work in London.
My current teaching is now mostly in-person yoga classes, with a few of the classes also live-streamed. I teach a range of different styles of yoga which reflect my own personal practice and journey of yoga over the last 20+ years including ashtanga yoga, hatha yoga, vinyasa yoga, yin yoga, complete beginners’ yoga, restorative yoga, slow flow yoga, pregnancy yoga and postnatal yoga as well as mindfulness meditation.
For those interested in postnatal yoga for mums and babies in Hackney E8, near London Fields, the next start date is Thursday 31st October 2024. Please email me to book.
Please contact me for more details of any of my classes, workshops and courses, or keep up-to-date by following me on Instagram 
I have been practising yoga since 2001 and teaching since 2007. I qualified to teach in 2006 after a 500 hour Aurolab yoga teacher training course, and have since completed many further teaching training courses including:
– Yin Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation with Sarah Powers at the Kripalu Yoga Institute
– Birthlight Pre-and Post-Natal Yoga Level 2 certification
– YogaCampus teacher training in Yoga, Mindfulness and Compassion for Anxiety and Depression
– Yoga for Menopause Support with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli/ YogaCampus
– Yogcampus teacher training in Yoga for Stress, Burnout, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & ME
– Yoga Nidra Immersion with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
– Pranayama & Breathwork training with Laurent Roure
– Cultivating Embodied Wisdom with Tias Little
– Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery from Stress, Burnout, Trauma, Anxiety and Fatigue with Charlotte Watts
– Yoga Therapy for CFS, Burnout & Long Covid with Fiona Agombar
– Yoga for Cancer short course with Vicky Fox
– Birthlight Well Woman Yoga for a Smoother Menopause
I continue to study and deepen my understanding and knowledge of all aspects of this powerful and healing practice and its many benefits through regular attendance of workshops and retreats, and also learning from my students on a daily basis.
I truly believe that everyone can benefit from yoga, whatever their background, age, size or current physical condition, and my approach to teaching is one of warmth, encouragement and care and is always tailored to an individual’s needs. My main aim is to make yoga accessible and enjoyable for everyone and to help people find more ease and freedom in both their body and mind.
I always encourage my students to be truly present in their practice and to explore their own body and mind with fresh eyes each time they come to their mat. In my classes and workshops I share my passion for yoga and meditation and encourage students to reconnect to their bodies, breath, strength and vitality in a safe, compassionate, joyful and mindful way.
Having lived in London and worked in a busy office job in the publishing industry for many years before teaching, I am very aware of the stresses and challenges of big city living, and know how a regular yoga practice can be enormously helpful in dealing with these and can enable people to find more balance, space and calm in their bodies, minds and lives.
Some of my favourite quotes about life and yoga include:
“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple: the philosophy is kindness.”
H.H. The Dalai LamaTen thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.”
Wumen Hui-K’ai“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
B.K.S. Iyengar“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness.
If you are attentive, you will see it.”
Thich Nhat Hanh“We don’t use our body to get into a pose, we use the pose to get into our body”
Bernie Clark – The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga“Practising yoga is a privilege. And with this privilege comes a duty to be kind, share a smile and offer the yoga from the mat into the rest of your life.”
Maty Ezraty“For you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can’t help but
see it everywhere”
Rupi Kaur“The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.”
T.K.V. Desikachar“Yoga is not just repetition of few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”
Amit Ray“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
MAYA ANGELOU“When the breath wanders, the mind is also unsteady, but when the breath is calmed, the mind too will be still.”
Hatha Yoga Pradipika“Yoga can re-educate the body and bring back suppleness. When tensions leave, the body goes back to its original state, and balance is re-established.”
Vanda Scaravelli“In this moment, there is nothing to fear.
There is only something to fear when we leave this moment.”
Ekart Tolle“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
George Eliot
