Yoga

The invitation

The invitation of my classes is always to come as you are. I include myself in that.

I want to create spaces where we can all be more real. So there will always be an opportunity to arrive together - to speak, to be heard, to witness, to belong.

My approach to movement comes from a place of awe, and humility. Less how can I make my body move? and more an invitation to wonder at, and respond to, that which is already moving. A sense of ‘show me’.

As such, while our practice together includes both recognisable yoga postures and flows, there will also be space for movement to arise or take shape from what is sensed from within. A chance to listen. And then respond.

There is always choice.

I love to look around the room and see different expressions of movement.

I hope you will also recognise a deep honouring of the roots of yoga, of the wise ones who came before, and all of those who have contributed to these teachings being available to us today. We explore philosophy - in some depth - language, imagery, meditation, music, poetry and mantra. And we discuss, collectively how the wisdom of these traditions continues to inspire our own lives.

Please come. As you are.

If you're curious, here is a little more about the philosophy that informs my teaching.

What yoga means to me

We live in a culture that is very good at asking ‘what is wrong?’.

Very often, that question is turned inwards and can solidify around a fixed belief that there is something wrong with us. That there is something to make up for. And believing this can itself begin to feel like personal failure.

Yoga, and especially non-dual tantric philosophy (which is at the core of both my training and my offerings) comes from the perspective that we are always and already whole.

No exceptions.

No missing pieces to collect.

The only mistake we make is in forgetting this essential wholeness. In allowing that which is layered on top to obscure the view.

Remembering

The yoga I teach is not about self-improvement.

It is about remembering who we already are.

It is an invitation to recognise, embody and trust that wholeness, in community and increasingly, to recognise it in each other, in the world around us, and in life itself.

From a non-dual tantric perspective, the path to recognition is not through transcending our lived reality but through becoming more intimate with it. By diving so deeply into our lived experience that it becomes the gateway.

By including more, not less.

There is a line from a Mat Moberg poem that one of my teachers shared recently:

“Look, look again. Look until looking becomes love.”

This line gets to the heart of what I am discovering in my own practice and what I aspire to bring through my offerings.