My dedication to helping people navigate their own life journeys is a core part of my life purpose, and I’m passionate about sharing what I have learned in ways that can support others. I bring a trauma aware practice to all of my work and draw on body awareness and somatic practices, breath, nervous system regulation and nature connection.
I began teaching yoga in 2010, after completing a Dru Yoga Teaching Diploma, a path that grew alongside my journey of motherhood. My children are some of my greatest teachers, reminding me to remember presence, gratitude, joy, connection and compassion alongside the messiness of being human.
My teaching is inspired by the practices that have supported me in cultivating a sense of wholeness and inspiration in my own life. I aim to offer inspiration and empowerment, inviting joy and holding space in a way that offers choice and honours each individual’s unique path.
In 2012, I started working with children, sharing yoga in a play-based way and supporting them to explore movement, breath, emotions and relaxation. Having my own children opened me to the worlds of children and sparked a passion to support them to remember their own worth and feel empowered to be themselves.
Following training with Mindful Schools in 2016, I discovered a profound wisdom within mindfulness and began integrating mindfulness practices into all my classes. I offer children and adults practices that can support them in navigating the stresses and complexities of everyday life.
I completed training in holistic psychotherapy in 2023 and began offering one-on-one therapy sessions for adults, children and teens. This work has allowed me to offer deeper and more specific support, while also adding so much value to my own life.
I seek to help you or your child to ‘get to the heart’ of what’s difficult, while honouring your own internal guidance system and working collaboratively. Working with the body and somatic approaches therapeutically is a particular interest where this feels supportive for my clients.
For children, sessions are play-based, with yoga and mindfulness, alongside a holistic psychotherapy lens and therapeutic practices to assist with patterns, emotions, behaviours and needs.
Most recently, my work has begun to extend into ecotherapy, returning to my roots in nurturing our relationship with the natural world. I believe we are not separate from nature; we are part of this living web. I offer space to explore this connection, and to remember something of our own nature through connection with the land, the elements and other-than-human beings.
My intention, across all of my work, is to create a warm, grounded space where you or your child can be exactly as you are, reconnect with yourself and find your own way forward, with support, self-compassion, curiosity and a sense of possibility.
I believe that beneath the busyness and complexities of modern life, there is an innate wisdom within each of us, and I love supporting people in reconnecting with this.
Holistic Psychotherapy takes a whole-person approach, considering our mental, emotional, social, physical and spiritual wellbeing. This psychotherapy approach is taught by Lee Trew of Connection Culture and, among other techniques, draws on somatic psychotherapy, working with the body, and narrative psychotherapy, exploring how we see ourselves and our place in the world.
My psychotherapy work with children and teens uses yoga and mindfulness as a base and weaves holistic psychotherapy and individual therapeutic support into the sessions.
A therapeutic focus is on emotional needs: how can we understand and meet our needs so that we can live a life that works for us?
In this approach, we are guided by your or your child’s own internal guidance system, rather than the therapist having all the answers. This creates space for a collaborative process for understanding what is happening, and exploring what feels right for each individual.
I offer yoga and mindfulness
-group sessions for adults, children and teens and families, and
-one-on-one and parent–child sessions for
children and teens – one-on-one play-based yoga, mindfulness and holistic psychotherapy, and
Parent and child – play-based yoga, mindfulness and holistic psychotherapy
The yoga style I teach for adults is Dru yoga, and for children, teens and families I teach based on the various specific trainings I have completed for working with children and teens.
Dru Yoga is a subtle yet powerful form of yoga, based on soft flowing movements, guided breathing and visualisation. With foundations in the ancient yogic tradition, it works with body, mind and spirit, guiding movements for strength, flexibility and core stability, while inviting mind-body connection, nervous system regulation and deep relaxation. Dru Yoga is suitable for all abilities, experience levels and ages.
Dru Yoga is heart-based and can bring awareness to the flow of energy in the body and invite a sense of empowerment. It incorporates modern science and healing therapies, supporting emotional wellbeing and the mind-body connection.
Energy Block Release Sequences (EBRs)
Dru Yoga uses unique flowing sequences developed to release tension or blocked energy. Each class includes an EBR to enhance the flow of energy before focusing on postures to maximise benefits for our whole mind-body-energy system.
Tuning in to what feels supportive for your body
Students are invited to notice what feels supportive for their own body in each moment, without needing to achieve any particular level of physical practice. I bring a trauma-aware approach to my teaching, supporting choices that honour each person’s body and needs.
The practice of mindfulness means bringing our awareness to the present moment, including our thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations and surrounding environment, with openness and curiosity. It can help us be more present moment-to-moment, reducing the sense of busyness, stress and anxiety that can arise when our thoughts become caught in the past or future.
Mindfulness can help us bring greater curiosity and compassion to our experience, help us bring awareness to our emotions as they arise, and begin to untangle thoughts from emotions. Research suggests it can significantly benefit mental and emotional wellbeing.
Mindfulness also includes cultivating heartfulness, expanding kindness, gratitude and compassion towards ourselves and others, opening us to greater connection and joy.
I bring a trauma-aware lens to my work, weaving mindfulness throughout all that I offer.
Ecotherapy invites us to explore our relationship with the natural world as part of our wellbeing and healing. Spending time in nature can support us to reconnect with ourselves, as we come into relationship with the land and the other-than-human world, allowing us to reconnect with a sense of belonging that is a deeply felt experience.
This approach uses somatic ecotherapy, bringing particular attention to the body and its ways of knowing. It can offer a restorative space to step away from the pressures of modern life, and support us with stress, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, grief, disconnection or to explore our sense of meaning.
In ecotherapy, we honour the wisdom in whatever arises in your own experience and allow the practice of connecting with nature to unfold in a way that can support and hold you.
