Some people find yoga in a studio. I found it in a 400-year-old church in Belgium, poor French, perfect silence, and a body that suddenly remembered what it felt like to relax and come home. So the seed of the practice I continue today was planted thirty years ago.
I’m a teacher and forever student of yoga, facilitator, retreat host, somatic therapy student, ocean swimmer, and event producer, also a mum and wife who knows that the practice happens off the mat, when life gets beautifully messy.
I grew up between mountains and ocean in Nelson, and now teach in Wellington, Aotearoa. Those landscapes shaped something in me, a sense that we are nature, that we belong to something larger, and that reconnecting with that belonging is, these days, a radical act.
In Europe I encountered extraordinary human diversity and felt, firsthand, our shared longing: to be seen, to heal, to feel at home in ourselves. That sense of shared humanity led me into studies in Psychology and Environmental Science, and eventually, in 2019, into my 200hr YTT with the phenomenal Nico Luce, an experience that was nothing less than transformational. I begin my 300hr with him in 2026.
I’m as passionate about the philosophy and psychology of yoga as I am about the asana. I see yogis as the original psychologists, and psycho-immunobiologists (right?!). Yoga is not a performance. It is the practice and art of being a human practicing to live in alignment with soul, with purpose, agency, and bliss. Yoga builds the inner resources we lean on when life asks more of us than we thought we had.
Yoga wisdom isn’t mine to give. It lives in each of us. My role is to help you remember, to reconnect with your own innate intelligence, your soul truth, and your agency. It is an honour to journey alongside you on the path for a while.
I’m also the founder of Goodlife Collective, a platform for social innovation and unlocking collective potential – because I believe what’s true on the mat is true in the world: we’re more capable, more connected, and more alive than we’ve been told.
Why I teach? I love watching the lightness, the deeper insights, and glow return to someone’s smile lines. That’s the whole thing, really.
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