A bit about me…
Dear Reader, I’m so stoked to have you here in whatever divine way you have landed.
I’m honored that you’ve spent your precious time and energy reading through what I do.
I’m a Sydney girl born and bred, currently residing in Melbourne, Australia.
I first tried Yoga at the local bowling club when I was 18 years old. My Mum dragged me there. I thought it was boring. I didn’t return to the mat for another four years.
I find the way life unravels to be so fascinating - sliding doors moments, chance meetings with strangers that change the course of your life forever and the way things ripen only when they’re ready to…
I had chronic anxiety for three years and experienced frequent panic attacks. I told no one about it at the time - I was young, I was partying and after fainting with every panic attack I’d wake up feeling ‘back to normal’.
I also considered that ‘maybe this is just what adult life is like?’; that it was normal to race through our days, our weeks and our lives with a constant under-current of distress. It was like trying to drive a car with a dirty windscreen not knowing I could wash the mud away. I didn’t know that things could be different.
One conversation on a beach in Cambodia in 2014 changed my life forever. The first person I spoke to about my experience of anxiety told me ‘you should try Yoga’. At that point in time, I was ripe and ready.
I came back to Sydney and from the very first studio Yoga class I took, I was hooked. I found the practice challenging on many levels but the sense of peace it left me with was worth every moment of discomfort.
It’s funny how it tends to be that way… that transformation or expansion disguises itself as discomfort. ‘The edge’ - or what ‘feels edgy’ - continues to open me in the most spectacular way, time and time again.
I believed Yoga was medicine. I knew it had the capacity to transform lives - it did mine. My curiosity to understand why and how lead me to complete my first Yoga Teacher training in 2018.
Six months later, with encouragement from my mentor to ‘follow your dreams’ I quit my corporate job to teach and share Yoga.
It’s been a wild five years since.
I’ve met extraordinary people along the way. I’ve had the privilege of learning from some of the greatest teachers of our time who’ve devoted themselves to this path for decades. I’ve assisted my teachers in Australia and overseas. I’ve ran multiple sold out Yoga Retreats. I discovered Zenthai Shiatsu (another love language of mine) and in 2023 I completed my Zenthai Shiatsu Therapist training.
The more I devote myself to these ancient philosophies, practices and ways of being, the more I recognise and remember that we are all part of something much greater than what we think and know; the Great mystery.
With time, practice and devotion my heart continues to crack open wider and wider; The gratitude I have for Being here and for Being human deepens; my connection to land, country and all its creatures grows with reverence (and grief); and the more Joy I find in existing, now.
I’m not perfect. I don’t get it right all the time. I slip into the separation story and I forget. But my devotion is the thing that helps me remember again and again and again.
It’s my hope and dream to help you remember too.
Through teaching Yoga classes, running Retreats and workshops or holding space in a Zenthai Shiatsu treatment my hope is to facilitate a journey where you remember your wholeness and your holy-ness. Where you return to the knowing that we are all interconnected, and that that remembrance may fuel you to live courageously, whole-heartedly and without abandon.
Honouring my Teachers
I’ve had the absolute privilege of studying from some truly extraordinary People. To my teachers on the path so far:
Noelle Connolly, Simon Park, Brookie Elliston, Gwyn Williams, Merryn Penington, Sam Belyea, Lara Zibilowitz, Abhi Jyoti, Maty Ezraty & Shiva Rea.
I am eternally grateful that my path lead me to each of you. I bow in deep reverence to your spirit, your teachers and your lineage.
And I am most grateful to my first teachers: my Mum, my Dad and the One within.