Specialises In
Women’s health including pelvic pain such as endometriosis, chronic health conditions, older people working on strength, balance, flexibility and functionality, people living with cancer
Qualifications
Bsc Physiotherapy
Active birth teacher
200 hour TTC yoga teacher
Yoga for people living with cancer
Women’s yoga with Birthlight
Advanced yin yoga with Norman Blair
Restorative teacher training with Judith Lasater and Nidrarestore with Helen Moss
550 hour Minded yoga therapist
About
I have long been interested in health and well-being and started by studying massage and shiatsu when living in San Francisco in the early 1980’s. I found my way to yoga when I was pregnant in hope it would prepare me well for the birth. Following a less than ideal birth experience I subsequently trained with Janet Balaskas, maybe to help heal from my own birth story.
Over the ensuing years I did many alternative therapy trainings, ran shiatsu courses, worked in homeless charities and volunteered with the rape crisis centre and AIDS helpline and a women’s homelessness project, locally. On return from 8 months travelling with my 10 year old son, I decided I wanted to do a degree and trained to be a physiotherapist later in life. My first job was in a psychiatric hospital where I used my massage and yoga skills with patients. I then did my ‘junior’ rotations in a large acute hospital before finding my ideal job in women’s health. I still work part-time seeing pelvic health, obstetric and patients with breast cancer and over the past several years have been doing various yoga teacher trainings culminating in graduating in 2020 as a Minded yoga therapist.
For me yoga offers many tools to help me better accept myself, to notice and be able to either act on or sit with arising feelings and to appreciate the wonderment of my body despite it getting older and a bit creakier. Yoga has never been about getting my body into intricate shapes, although I admire and get huge pleasure in seeing people in such shapes, for me it is about feeling a sense of comfort and ease, a coming home.