My Story - Why Yoga?
I grew up in Broughty Ferry and sport was my thing. Although I sustained a serious back injury as a child it was not until my late teens and a student at Glasgow University that I started experiencing 24 hour back pain every day.
I dipped into yoga on and off for years but most yoga classes I had been to at the gyms seemed generic and didn’t resonate with my need for a good workout. But as I got older with a stressful job as a busy television producer and journalist with little time to exercise, my back problems escalated especially after the birth of my three children.
Back to the yoga and a small class in London, where I lived for 12 years, led by a wonderful Indian girl called Anil who showed me another side to the healing power of yoga. I began to feel a difference in my body - in the way it moved and felt. My muscles started to feel ironed out and yet strengthened in a way I hadn’t experienced before. But the benefits were so much more than physical. I became calmer in my daily outlook and more mindful about what it was I needed in my life and where I wanted to be. Oh and my back? It’s never been better!
After moving back to Broughty Ferry a few years ago my personal yoga practice in Ashtanga yoga took hold and it became clear to me that what I really wanted to do was to tell the world about the healing power of yoga to the mind, body and soul. I enrolled on a 200 hour yoga teaching course with International Yoga Alliance Accredited CYS Teacher Training in 2015 and an intensive 60 hour Atmavikasa Classical Hatha Yoga Immersion course with renowned Indian yoga gurus, Yogacharya Venkatesh and Acharye Hema at Union Yoga, Edinburgh. I now teach yoga in the heart of Broughty Ferry.
I am also a qualified CMA Registered Reiki Master from the University
of Dundee and offer Reiki Healing by appointment.
I grew up in Broughty Ferry and sport was my thing. Although I sustained a serious back injury as a child it was not until my late teens and a student at Glasgow University that I started experiencing 24 hour back pain every day.
I dipped into yoga on and off for years but most yoga classes I had been to at the gyms seemed generic and didn’t resonate with my need for a good workout. But as I got older with a stressful job as a busy television producer and journalist with little time to exercise, my back problems escalated especially after the birth of my three children.
Back to the yoga and a small class in London, where I lived for 12 years, led by a wonderful Indian girl called Anil who showed me another side to the healing power of yoga. I began to feel a difference in my body - in the way it moved and felt. My muscles started to feel ironed out and yet strengthened in a way I hadn’t experienced before. But the benefits were so much more than physical. I became calmer in my daily outlook and more mindful about what it was I needed in my life and where I wanted to be. Oh and my back? It’s never been better!
After moving back to Broughty Ferry a few years ago my personal yoga practice in Ashtanga yoga took hold and it became clear to me that what I really wanted to do was to tell the world about the healing power of yoga to the mind, body and soul. I enrolled on a 200 hour yoga teaching course with International Yoga Alliance Accredited CYS Teacher Training in 2015 and an intensive 60 hour Atmavikasa Classical Hatha Yoga Immersion course with renowned Indian yoga gurus, Yogacharya Venkatesh and Acharye Hema at Union Yoga, Edinburgh. I now teach yoga in the heart of Broughty Ferry.
I am also a qualified CMA Registered Reiki Master from the University
of Dundee and offer Reiki Healing by appointment.