AND WE'RE OFF ...

Welcome to my first ever blog post and thank you so much for visiting my site. It feels like the official launch has been a long time coming and I know some of you expressed interest in my classes a while ago so I very much appreciate you sticking with me through this start up process. For those of you who want to dive straight into securing your place for a mum and baby class feel free to use the Book Now buttons below or perhaps you'd prefer to navigate your way through the site for other offerings from my website home page. Other offerings include Throne Yoga (chair yoga) and private 1-23 sessions in person and Online.

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To be honest it has been a joyful slog getting my new business up and running for a multitude of legitimate reasons muddled with a few good old excuses, self doubt and Netflix procrastinations. The story starts in Summer 2019: I was just married and feeling like it was time to put my West End Musical Theatre career on hold for a while to create a lifestyle more conducive of health, calm and stability. I also wanted to encourage my body to conceive and create a schedule that was more suitable for motherhood. I was bursting with ideas about what I wanted to do instead of acting and singing because these ideas had actually always been there lying dormant waiting for the right time. Helping people to feel good were the basic ideas and my head swam with pictures of sound therapy, retreats, counselling and more. However, I knew that Yoga would be a great place to start considering that I had already been teaching movement for twenty years and had been practicing some forms of yoga for at least a decade.

Everything happened so incredibly fast. Within the course of a single week I decided to stop singing on the West End enrolled onto a Yoga course and discovered I was pregnant!

It was November 2019 and suddenly my world had been turned upside down in the most amazing way possible. Little did I know that just a few months away was an even bigger global summersault. During the hardest and most uncertain days of the pandemic I found myself feeling lucky in many ways, strange as that may seem. My husband was being paid to teach from home as was I. We had time to nest and get some time together before the baby arrived and I was also right in the middle of studying something new that I respected and genuinely fascinated me. I feel so thankful for the position that we found ourselves in during that time.

Jump forward to 2022 and why it's taken me over two years to officially start the business. I am proud and grateful to be the primary caregiver to a delightful two year old and i have found the transition back into consistent "workhood" harder than I expected. I was supposed to go back into Secondary school teaching around the 8 month mark of my maternity leave but in the Winter of 2020 when my headteacher checked in with me because my start date was looming... I really did not feel up to it at all. Despite the fact that there were many things to be grateful for during the pandemic I can't deny that like many, many people it did really make me rethink my values, hopes, dreams and let's face it - fears. I did not feel excited about the prospect of going back into a secondary school to teach a demographic who were said to be passing the virus around at a hirer rate. I am supposedly in the high-risk group (more on that in another blog) plus I needed to get on two underground trains and then walk a further twenty minutes from the station just to get there. My high-risk Postnatal body and new-mum-mind literally recoiled at the thought and I decided to leave the job much to my headteacher's disappointment.

There was all kinds of shame and guilt attached to this decision because I knew that some people were being laid off left right and centre...

...or having hours cut and a lot of people were concerned about how they were going to pay the bills and here I was saying no to an income. Of course this didn't sit well with me but I just knew in my heart that it was the right decision for me and my new family. Luckily my husband agreed and said something like "I like beans on toast anyway". I have since done a few singing gigs which rendered me almost paralysed with anxiety. After nearly three years off the stage putting on a skin tight dress, showing some flesh and then trying to embody some of the the most confident and inspiring female singers of the last century after a day of toddler tantrums and motherhood was daunting to say the least (more on that in another blog).

So the reason I have finally made it here to this page, this blog and this website offering you classes of Yoga and wellbeing is because I have never been more sure about how to direct my energy. At some point in my life I realised that the most effective way for me to lessen my own anxiety or feelings of helplessness was to help others.

I have always loved connecting with, talking to and inspiring others which is supported by curiosity for the human condition and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge about all facets of wellness.

I have such a strong compulsion to share every morsel of what I learn whenever I am engaging with people. This compulsion is unparalleled by almost any other motivating emotion within me. I want to share all the ancient wisdom as well as cutting edge advancement in modern medicine that I think could be helpful to someone who is looking for ways to feel better or simply optimise the way in which they are showing up in the world and In their own mind-body. Something inside of me lights up when I impart my learnings and I feel like I am being of service. As of today October 30th 2022 it's a service to which I am completely devoted.