TT Cert (200 hrs); Panmana Ashram, 2015; TT Dip (200 hrs); YogaCampus, 2020; Sauna Master Level 1, International Bath Academy 2022.

Teaching Yoga

I went to my first yoga class in the late 1990’s when I was still getting over the loss of my childhood obsession with gymnastics. The movement part I understood, but the breathing, the stillness, the lack of competition and prizes took a bit longer to get used to! The physical benefits kept me coming back and eventually after years of practice with a long line of dedicated teachers in India, the UK and the US, I learnt that the competition was usually against myself, the rewards were within, and by tuning into the breath, and listening to my body, I may sometimes get a glimpse of the prizes.   

I wanted to go deeper and so in 2015 I completed my Teacher Training Certificate (TTC) in India. I thought that this would be when I’d learn all the really difficult moves, but instead I learnt to go back to the beginning. To simplify. To be still. I learnt how repetition leads to insight. To listen deeply. I learnt the power of a steady practice.

When I finished my first TTC my teacher, in all of his elegant wisdom said, ‘Remember. If you practice you should teach and if you teach you should practice.’ And so, the student becomes the teacher and the teacher remains the student in an on-going exchange. Thank goodness. And so I continue to practice and study with inspiring teachers and completed my Teaching Diploma with Yogacampus in 2020.

Teaching yoga is an exchange, where we share our practice, the benefits and the philosophy. Practicing yoga is also an exchange. It’s a continuous return to the breath, an on-going invitation to your body to open, soften and strengthen. My gymnastics days are long behind me but there’s no time where my yoga practice will be ‘finished’ or ‘achieved.’  It continues amidst life’s upheavals, losses, illnesses, recoveries, physical changes, getting older. It continues when I need it the most.  

And so I invite you to build a practice to which you may return again and again, which may change with you, and which with conscious intention, can become a mainstay, a refuge, a source of inspiration and renewal. Indeed it can become whatever it is you need. Your body is unique. It contains the story of your life, and no one knows it better than you.

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