About

With over 500 hours of formal teacher training and more than 8 years of teaching experience, I’m a yoga teacher based in Coogee, Sydney. Born in Sydney, I returned to Australia in 2019 after many years travelling and living overseas.

Before yoga, my relationship with movement and my body was mostly dominated by the experience of physical pain and issues with food. Since developing serious spinal issues at the age of 14, I waged war on my body and struggled to accept its limitations rather than appreciating what it could do and exploring the skin I was in. 

I attended my first yoga class in India in 2013 when I was living in London. It changed something in me and arguably, the course of my life. Finally I had found a space and a way of being with myself and in my body which didn’t involve competition & comparison. Especially in the final resting pose, shavasana, I had found a place in which to let everything hang out…it was such a relief and it felt like ‘home’.

Yoga has taught me to be patient, to open to what is, let go of control, be kinder to myself and to others.

It has helped me to soften; it helps remind me again and again of what is truly important. If I catch myself being swept away by unhelpful patterns of thought and behaviour - the broken record that needs to be taken off the turntable - yoga is always there to bring me back.

Most of my yoga training has been under the teachers at London’s triyoga, primarily Anna Ashby, Jean Hall, Bridget Woods Kramer and the American teacher, Richard Rosen, who is my mentor and friend. My other influential teachers are Doug Keller, Donna Fahri, Cassandra Missio and Mitch (Michelle) Gibson.

It is entirely through our bodies that we experience everything - and through deepening our relationship with our felt experience, we can sense the wonder of our being alive, and all that our aliveness makes possible.

In recent years, my practice and teaching has focused increasingly on the slower and more contemplative practices of Restorative Yoga in the style of Judith Hanson Lasater & Lizzie Lasater, and with a focus on pranayama (the yoga of breath).

I’m immensely passionate about sharing tools and practices that can nurture and support people from the inside out and which can help address extreme exhaustion, anxiety, stress, striving and myriad other issues that stem from modern life.

I’m a self-professed yoga nerd and have more yoga books than I may ever have time to read (this goes for novels, too!) and I’m particularly interested in the myths surrounding modern Western yoga practice.

I am registered with Yoga Australia as a Level 2 Yoga Teacher.

Training & Certification

Keys To Wellness Through Yoga: Understanding And Working With Common Injuries with Doug Keller/Yogacampus, London

Menarche to Matriarch: Yoga and Physiology for Times of Transition with Leslie Howard

Level 2 Restorative Yoga Teacher Training - Triyoga, London with Anna Ashby

The Art of Teaching with Donna Farhi

Restorative Yoga Teacher Training - Yogabowl, Sydney with Mitch Gibson

The Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga - Yogacampus, London with Doug Keller

300hr Advanced Teacher Training - Triyoga, London with Anna Ashby & Jean Hall

Restorative Yoga Teacher Training - Triyoga, London with Anna Ashby

The Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga - with Doug Keller, Melbourne, Australia

Anusara Yoga 200hr Teacher Training - with Bridget Woods Kramer, Carlos Pomeda & Ananda Leone

Anusara Yoga 100hr Immersion with Bridget Woods Kramer, Triyoga London