Hartford Yoga

I teach yoga both locally at the Hartford Yoga Studio and also around Cheshire in addition to offering national and international yoga retreats.

My first experience of yoga was in 2001, when I was pregnant with my first child – I am now the mother of three boys! – and it was from here that my yoga journey began. The way a yoga class left me feeling was a combination of feeling blissful, strong, stretched, more flexible in not just the body but the mind too and ultimately made me feel relaxed.

For many years I’d suffered with anxiety and depression and found that yoga helped massively with calming the anxiety and easing some of the discomfort from the battles in my mind. I also used to struggle with chronic and debilitating migraines but thanks to yoga, and some lifestyle changes, I now only suffer from them occasionally.

For over a decade I practiced under the guidance of some truly inspirational teachers from different yoga traditions and after at least 10 years of regular practice and workshops I decided that the natural progression for me was to train to teach.

I began the BWY Foundation Course which led me to be accepted to study under Sarah Beck for the BWY 500 hour Level 4 teacher training diploma. I spent over three years studying with Sarah, which was an amazing experience providing not only an excellent standard of teacher training but in- depth teachings of meditation, pranayama and yoga philosophy too.

My teaching style is constantly evolving but ultimately I strive to create a safe space to enable students to explore their own self enquiry and I try to bring to my classes and retreats what can so often be lost in the modern yoga classes today, and combine the asana practice with nuggets of philosophy, pranayama, meditation and mindfulness.

I have since trained and qualified as a Yin and Yin/Yang yoga teacher with IYN, a 150 hrs level 3 diploma in traditional Tantra with distinction and Sound Healing level 3 diploma with distinction. I have been a student of Swami Nishchalananda and his teachings of the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra belonging to the Kashmir Shaivism Tantra written around 800AD and based on Tantric beliefs that are thousands of years old.

l trust to share my love and the benefits of yoga with you in Hartford at our very own yoga studio or at other local venues.

Namaste