EXPERIENCE & TRAINING

I bring over two decades of experience in yoga and embodiment, including thirteen years of teaching and mentoring yoga teachers. I am a Senior Yoga Teacher with more than 1,200 hours of specialist training across Vinyasa Flow, Yin Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, non-dual Tantra, Yoni Shakti Well Woman Yoga Therapy, and trauma-informed approaches to women's health.

Alongside this, I am completing an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling and have undertaken extensive training in Jungian psychology where I hold various diplomas including Jungian Dream Work, and Jung and the Tarot. My work is deeply informed by depth psychology, symbolism, dreams, myth, and the imaginal, alongside existential philosophy, attachment theory, somatic psychology, Polyvagal Theory, and nervous system regulation. I am also a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

I am also a trained Embodiment Coach, Thai Yoga Massage practitioner, and Reiki Master Teacher. Spiritually, I have been initiated into Transcendental Meditation and two non-dual Shaiva-Shakta Tantric lineages.

THE AWAKENING BODY

These experiences have gradually woven themselves into what I now call The Awakening Body: an embodied ecology for understanding human experience. It is the living framework through which I explore the dynamic relationship between body, psyche, and the imaginal, and the way our lives become organised into patterns that shape how we think, feel, relate, and participate in the world.

Whether I am counselling, teaching, writing, or creating educational content, my intention is the same: to offer a compassionate and intellectually rigorous space where people can make sense of their experience, reconnect with themselves, and participate more fully in their own lives.

Everything I offer is trauma-informed and grounded in deep respect for the complexity, mystery, and wisdom of being human.

You can find a full list of my qualifications here.

THE HUMAN BEHIND THE WORK

Qualifications tell you what I've studied, but they don’t tell you who I am. At heart, I'm endlessly fascinated by people and why we behave in the ways that we do. Why do we repeat patterns we desperately want to change? Why can two people experience the same event yet carry it so differently? How does the body remember what the mind has forgotten? Those questions have shaped far more of my life than any qualification ever could.

I'm curious to the point of obsession. I love ideas as much as I love muddy woodland walks. I'm equally at home discussing Jung, Tantra, mythology, neuroscience, or sitting around a fire wondering why human beings dream. I can disappear down a rabbit hole researching symbolism for hours, then emerge convinced I've only scratched the surface.

I'm also wonderfully contradictory!

Part of me wants to spend an evening in deep conversation about consciousness and the meaning of life. Another part wants to throw a paddleboard on the car, chase the sunset, and see where the road leads. Sometimes I dream of retreating to a cabin in the woods with nothing but books and silence. Other times I want to gather people together and explore what it means to be fully alive. I've now stopped trying to resolve those contradictions because they're all part of me.

When I'm not counselling, teaching, writing, or creating for The Awakening Body, you'll usually find me wandering on Exmoor with my dog Luna or somewhere near water, remembering that some of life's best insights arrive when we stop trying so hard to find them.

Thank you for being here.