My love of yoga started as a teenager when, after reading Aldous Huxley's novel 'Island', I took a meditation tape out from the local library, the meditation led onto a me finding a yoga class and starting to have a physical yoga asana practice. At this age practicing yoga brought me the understanding that I could take a breath and pause before reacting to situations, this was a revelation and incredibly useful!

Yoga has continued to accompany me through my life. I attended a variety of classes, including pregnancy and baby yoga, and had a home yoga practice. I qualified as a primary school teacher and became very interested in helping children to develop their emotional intelligence and resilience, again, yoga seemed to show the way forward. I trained as a children's yoga teacher and started to teach child and family yoga in my own school, other schools and nurseries. I also set up after school yoga clubs. I had lots of good feedback from parents who also asked if I did an adult class. I'd been thinking of extending my training to teaching adults and had already completed British Wheel of Yoga Foundation 1 course with Hazel Faithful to deepen my own understanding of yoga. Encouraged, I signed up to teacher training with Wendy Teasdill and loved it right from the start, my teacher was inspiring and deeply knowledgeable and the people I trained with were great too. I was very proud to qualify as a yoga teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga and to start my own classes. I have now been loving teaching adults and children's yoga for over 10 years, there is always something new to learn and to teach. I am very thankful for the opportunity to share yoga with others.