I discovered yoga in 2007 when I was living and studying in California. Intent on reinventing myself after a back injury cut short my career as an Olympic Rhythmic Gymnast, I was dealing with both the physical pain of my injury and the emotional pain of losing something I cared so much about. Every time I did yoga, my mind quietened and I felt like I was remembering who I was. Every moment spent on the mat brought me closer to understanding who I was and what I needed to do with my life. Yoga helped me not only to heal my injury but deeper than that, it taught me how to heal myself.

For me, yoga is ultimately a healing practice. A place where we can learn to be kinder, more accepting, more loving towards ourselves - the reverberations of which are felt by all those with whom we come into contact. I want more than anything to help people find space in their internal landscape so that they can connect to their intuition. When we listen to that still, small voice inside us, we move in the directions that are right for us. As we free ourselves from the chains we impose on ourselves, we become happier, more present beings.

I first trained to become a yoga teacher at the Sivananda School of Yoga in Kerala, India in 2011 before going on to complete a teacher training in Rasa Yoga under the tutorship of Sianna Sherman. I have a Diploma in Advanced Assisting from Sunday School Yoga Club, a qualification in Pregnancy Yoga from Triyoga UK and am currently completing a two year training to become a Mindfulness Teacher with the world-renowned teachers Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. I am always learning and evolving as a teacher and like to pepper my classes with the little nuggets that I pick up from my constant study. Mindfulness meditation and shamanic teachings deeply inform the way I teach.

I am deeply grateful to all my teachers - past and present, on and off the mat and most especially to the wisdom of the Asian heritage of the Yoga and Buddhist practices that continue to support and nourish me and so many.

When I am not teaching yoga, I write and direct films. My practice helps me to unearth the subject matters that are most meaningful to me and clarify the way to best express them.