Movement has been central to my personal journey of becoming. I first dabbled in yoga as a teenager and then returned to yoga in my mid-20s.

 Suffering with burnout and vicarious trauma after years of working in the refugee sector without a space to process what I was witnessing, I was anxious and hypervigilant. Insomnia, gut issues, and various autoimmune illnesses followed, as I became increasingly disconnected from and mistrusting of my body.

My yoga practice allowed me to slowly come back into relationship with my body and increased my ability to be with different bodily sensations. As my self-awareness increased I began to be curious about what my body was communicating to me, the deep knowledge that it holds way before my mind catches up to what is going on.

 My journey through different yoga traditions eventually brought me to Somatics, a practice of connecting deeply to our felt sense and allowing it to lead. I am now in deep reverence of the wisdom held in the soma – the body. I practice in order to learn to listen, discern and continue increasing my capacity to feel – ultimately allowing me to be more present with all of the richness of life, the sweetness as well as the darkness.

 This is what I offer you in my Somatic Flow Yoga classes – a space where you are held deeply, safely and intuitively so that you can feel what needs to be felt and move in a way that serves you.

Somatic Flow Yoga supports embodied awareness through deeply experiencing each body system (skeleton, muscles, organs, fluids, etc) and re-exploring early movement patterns from our infancy. These explorations are placed within a framework of familiar yoga asana to facilitate a moving meditation and creating a deep connection between mind, body and movement.

Classes are fluid, flowing and creative. We build up to moments of strength before ending in deep rest. Alignment is used as a way to increase body awareness and feeling is always prioritised over form. Somatic Flow classes are not spaces of perfection, but rather of deep listening. I draw on my training and experience as a therapist specialising in trauma while facilitating – while classes are not therapy, somatic yoga can be deeply holding and therapeutic.