My yoga practice started more than 30 years ago when I learned the foundations of Hatha yoga at the Yoga Education Centre in Chapel St, St Kilda, under Vijayadev Yogendra.

Since then my personal practice has evolved through other yoga and meditation styles, including Krishnamacharya, Satyananda, Asthanga, Iyenga, Oki Do, Yoga Chi Gung, Zen and more recent styles such as Vinyasa and Yin. My practice has also been influenced by Eastern martial arts, including Tai Chi, Chi Gong and Taekwondo. All the major branches of yoga are integrated to help develop physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, cultivating the original intention of yoga, that being to bring awareness into the body and calm and focus the mind. 

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My yoga teaching approach uses the breath, asana (movement) and relaxation to help the practitioner (you) experience yoga at a deeper, personal level. You are invited to connect with your body, build strength and stability, and cultivate peace, focus and clarity. I generally follow the Hatha form, with a focused, mindful and supportive class style.

Outside of yoga, I have worked in health, community, politics and education, in nursing, communications, quality, project, program and campaign management. I have a deep connection with India, having travelled back and forth since 2008. With my partner I run a tourists' desert camp in the rugged west of Rajasthan, India, in the Jaisalmer region of the great Thar Desert.

I run general and private yoga classes, specialised courses in back care and healthy ageing, and yoga therapy which applies yoga techniques to address the specific health and wellbeing needs of individuals. I am currently not teaching group classes. Please contact me if you wish to arrange a course or private session.