About
There’s something about yoga: something really powerful. It can knit together all the separate parts of ourselves, remind us that we are ONE, body mind and soul, not just a bunch of different bits for different occasions.
I felt pretty fragmented for most of my life: I had a traumatic childhood – if you want to, you can read a bit about it here – and grew into a woman with a host of issues: desperately low self esteem, depression, anxiety, anorexia, then overeating and back again to anorexia. Who needs a fun-park ride with a crazy life like that! Thankfully, in my twenties, I stumbled into a yoga class.
As I became physically strong, balanced and capable in my yoga practice, I developed the emotional strength to deal with the nastiness of my past, and start to heal.
In the thousands and thousands of classes Ive taught, I’ve seen yoga work its juju with other people too. I’ve seen how people move out of pain, how they get stronger, more flexible, more emotionally stable. People tell me they are sleeping better, that their headaches and backaches are gone. People say that they have begun to reconnect to their spirituality. And all this from a bit of breathing and stretching.
Gotta love that.
My style, grounded in the Krishnamacharya tradition, is what I’d call slow and strong: fluidly repeated movements to build flexibility, followed by long holds to increase strength and stability. Those long-held poses are a great place to practice svadhyaya, or self-examination: asking questions like -
Am I as comfortable as I could be here?
If not, does anything need to change?
Do I give myself permission to change or come out of the pose if I need to?
Do I want to move because I am bored? What happens if I stay?
A yoga practice, done in this way, can provide amazing emotional change, and powerful integration of mind, body and breath.
If you’d like to practice with me, please come to one of my retreats or other events, as I am currently on sabbatical from my regular classes in Docklands (so I can get my book finished).
In addition to working on my book, I write for a number of online and print publications on the topics of yoga, trauma, and healing.
And I am the creator of the yogAttitude cards, workbook, and DVD which you can find here!
Oh, and? I might have mentioned that I love getting email. Feel free to drop me a line or friend me on Facebook if you want to connect (and know what I am up to!)
Still want to know more? Read this Blisschick interview.
