During my 16 years of working in Social Care including City Roads Crisis Intervention Centre I attended many trainings as part of my work. I also trained outside of my work with The School of Energy Healing and completed my Diploma as Mindfulness Meditation and Yoga Teacher. I taught my first yoga classes there and I brought my new knowledge into groups and workshops I facilitated daily for our clients. I also worked closely with Buddhist community and run weekly Loving-Kindness for Self Meditation sessions. It was fascinating to see how positively our clients were responding to these teachings. 

I’ve been learning all my life. I ‘officially’ started on my journey of self discovery in 1996 when I attended City University to study Existential Counselling Skills, followed by Person-Centred Individual and Group Counselling One year Certificate. Since then I studied many therapeutic approaches and Psychology, Mental Health and Mental Health First Aid, Trauma Sensitive and Trauma-Informed Yoga and Care, Somatic Self-compassion, Movingness and Somatic Movement, Health and Social Care, Addictions, Family Dynamics, MI, NLP, Life Coaching, Wellness and Resilience Coaching, Reiki and Energy Healing. I have always been fascinated with psychology and how our minds affect our behaviours and our sense of well-being.

My search for for inner peace and connection led me to learning about and practicing daily Focusing (Embodied Listening) and training as Focusing Practitioner – a way to listen deeply with kindness to your inner wisdom, your body wisdom. I currently assist on Focusing trainings with a wonderful teacher Fiona Parr.

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In my private practice I work one-to-one with clients in an integrative and needs-led way. This allows us to focus on their needs and their goals, and make little accumulative changes that are right just for them.

This means a deep transformation on an identity and wellbeing levels – more inner connection and self-acceptance, deeper sense of self-trust, self-compassions and empowerment, followed with daily nourishing practices and aligned action.

In practical terms it means sleeping better, eating the right diet just for them, having less aches and pains in their body and lots more ease flow and joy, leaving behind overwhelm, confusion and burnout.

For some of my clients that meant changing their jobs, for others more connection in their relationships. And for all it meant less stress, more joy and better quality of life. It’s such a privilege to witness those changes taking place in somebody’s life when they connect with their embodied wisdom and take steps to create the life they want.

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During the last two decades I trained in various modalities including Mindfulness yoga and meditation, Mindfulness and Yoga for Pain, Slow Embodied yoga, Yin/Insight yoga, Psychology and Counselling, Master NLP and NLP for Health and Wellbeing, Life and Wellness Coaching, breathwork, Energy Healing and Reiki Master, Somatics, embodiment practices, bodywork and Thai Yoga Massage. My latest shift in teaching was towards greater sense of ease and integration with Embodiment practices and Somatic Movement.

I continue my training and recently trained with Embodiment Unlimited and attended FEC Foundations of Embodiment and Embodiement Coaching Certification, Embodied Yoga Principles and facilitated Embodiment Circles Online on Trauma: Connections and Boundaries. My learning and teaching seems to have a natural flow and forward movement and I teach practices that I found deeply nourishing myself.

I also trained with Deirdre Fay in her course Becoming Safely Embodied Professional Consultation and Certification Programme, which allowed me to take my understanding and skills further.

I believe in social justice and worked in the Social Care field for over 16 years, with individuals and families struggling with trauma, addiction, mental health and child protection issues. In February 2016 I took a step towards living my life in line with my passion – I left my social care job and committed fully to teaching yoga, mindfulness and wellness. 

This was a huge step for me and a big difference to how I practice and how I show up in my work and in my life. It’s opened many unexpected and fascinating opportunities to me – one of them is teaching Mindfulness and Resilience to young Apprentices around UK and working with young people with Porchlight charity. 

I also realised I wanted to bring together my experience of working with trauma and mental health in Social Care and integrate it with teaching yoga and mentoring yoga teachers. I noticed that there is a need for more yoga teachers to learn trauma informed/aware skills in order to bring them into their teaching. Our current world situation asks more of us as teachers and requires us to step up as Embodied Leaders. This is why I created 80-Hr Trauma-informed Yoga and Embodied Resilience (TREY) Teacher Training and mentoring course for yoga teachers and therapists.

I am active within my community – I volunteer as Communications Officer for Soroptimist International Thanet group – our local women’s group that promotes human rights of women and girls. We contribute to local projects such as POW! (Power of Women), and work closely with charities like Oasis Women’s Refuge and Shelter. Our group became Chartered in 2019 as the youngest club in the world.

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