Affected by pain, stiffness, discomfort?

• You get a fully individualised movement and mindfulness program based on your assesment as well as your goals and preferences. The teaching is adapted to what you need: taking in to account your experience, your learning style, personality and your unique body, making your learning more effective.

• Focused attention of your teacher and meaningful feedback based on your unique needs and experience allows you to progress faster.

• Increased motivation thanks to individualised feedback and notes that allow us to track your progress.

• The accountability factor of a one to one session helps with commitement.

• A safe and supportive environment and a space for personal growth. No pressure to “keep up” or compare yourself with others, or feel like you are being judged, allowing you to just be yourself. The only person that’s with you has your best interest at heart and feels called to share their passion with you.

• Ongoing collaboration and a relationship with your teacher, that extends beyond your live sessions. You can always ask any additional questions in between our classes, or use my online platform with additional practices, free of charge.

• One to one classes are a supportive environment that builds confidence to join group classes if that’s one of your goals.

• Am I doing this right? Is this exactly what I need? Is this suitable for my body? Working individually takes out the guesswork.

• People with no prior movement practice, intimidated by gyms or studios.

• Anyone needing a confidence boost before entering group environments.

• People who don’t feel as if they fit in traditional gyms or yoga studios.

• Curious people who want to understand things ‘properly’ and so prefer individual attention and guidance.

• Those who want a more nourishing, focused experience, without any distractions.

• Those struggling with motivation or discipline who would benefit from extra accountability.

• Those who work in busy, social settings and need personal space to decompress.

• People with more complex movement or accessibility needs, who would benefit from tailored support.

• Practicing in your own safe, familiar space makes you feel more settled and emotionally grounded.

• Reduced distractions and increased focus, you are in charge of how you want your environment to be.

• Flexibility with scheduling and easy integration into busy lifestyles. Online sessions are time-saving for busy or overstretched individuals.

• If gym or studio equipment gives you the wrong vibe, where reasonable, safe and practical, you can use household items for your practice.

• With a little guidance on set up and a decent webcam, I will be able to see as many details as I would in person, making this way of learning equally effective.

I believe that the best way to be effective is to harness the holistic tools of yoga through the scientific understanding of the body and the mind. I have 1000h of training in yoga, with a huge focus on the science and therapeutic application of movement and mindfulness. The foundation of my approach is the understanding of the person as a whole, inherent to yoga.

I have a deep-seated identity as a mover, through two decades of study and experience. I use my deep familiarity with movement to teach not only movement intuition but also intelligence. Understanding how our bodies move in detail, as a whole and how we learn to move. I have a degree (3600h) in contemporary dance. Additionally, I draw from the collective wisdom of other movement and somatic disciplines. My interests and education span creative movement, yoga and yoga therapeutics, rehabilitation, strength training, pain science and myofascial release.

Yoga has a strong focus on mindfulness and interacting with the world from a place of grounding and clarity. Besides extensive study of yoga psychology, experience in somatics through dance, I have engaged deeply with mindfulness through therapy, which helps me teach those aspects of yoga authentically and practically. Besides movement, I integrate scientifically supported yoga tools, such as mindfulness, breathwork and relaxation.

To sum it up, my education and experience interact with my personality to create a unique blend. I teach from a place of lived experience and deep familiarity with movement and mindfulness. I support it by intellectual curiosity and depth of study and blend it with intuitive and embodied ways of knowing. All of this built on a light-hearted, down-to-earth and above all, welcoming approach.

Physiotherapy and yoga therapy, are different but complementary approaches.

Physiotherapists are medical professionals, who specialise in diagnosing and treating injury and musculoskeletal conditions. They use injury specific assesment, movement assesment, therapeutic exercise, manual techniques and sometimes additional modalities, to help you recover. You might see them through a GP referral or privately for a treatment session, with exercise homework to do in your own time, before your next treatment. If you are considering starting yoga therapy, getting assesed by a physiotherapist is beneficial to rule out contraindications and issues that need medical attention.

Therapeutic Yoga Specialists have extensive training in all aspects of yoga, through the lens of science. That includes musculoskeletal anatomy, kinesiology, mobility and strength assesment, exercise and pain science, myofascial release, breathing techniques, mindfulness and meditation and nervous system downregulation. Although yoga therapists aren’t focused on diagnosis and treatment, the tools they offer clients typically facilitate positive changes and often result in resolution of pain. In contrast to physiotherapy, a big portion of our time together is going through various techniques with minimal homework in between the sessions.

The most poweful combination is working with both.

It all depends on whether you believe that holistic health is compatible with yoga. Exercise has gained bad rap in the yoga world, not because it's inherently problematic (quite the contrary!), but due to misguided marketing and coaching.

Strength training is a movement practice that uses external load to increase the capacity of your muscles and your bone density, an outcome that can’t be achieved with asana practice. It usually involves between 6-8 reps of a mindfully approached, loaded exercise, with an extensive rest period in between the sets.

Increasing your muscle mass and bone density are scientifically proven means of enhancing longevity and preventing frailty and disability later in life. Beyond the movement benefits, strength training is associated with mitigating the risk of multiple lifestyle diseases and often helps with injury prevention and pain.

Beyond it’s physical benefits, alongside yoga and dance, strength training has been shown to have immense positive effects on mental health. It uncovers our attitude towards difficulty, cultivates acceptance and helps us build resilience. It teaches us about discipline, helps us direct and maintain focus and bit by bit increases our confidence by giving us an opportunity to edge outside of our comfort zone.

Strength training perfectly illustrates the concept of balance between effort and ease. Intelligent effort in a well designed strength programme, leads to more ease throughout your life.