My life experience includes anxiety, panic attacks, frustration and a general lack of fulfilment - experiences common to many of us. The above mentioned practices changed everything for me.
So, I learnt about them. I learnt about them. And, I learnt about them some more.
My yoga classes, yoga therapy sessions, courses, retreats and massages are all designed with one intention: to change your life too. To help you reconnect to your true nature - peaceful, calm and joyful. To help you overcome whatever is standing in the way of that - stress, anxiety, depression, challenges with sleep and lack of fulfilment. And, to provide you with the practices and tools that facilitate this journey.
I’m passionate about these practices and tools, sharing them, and the amazing ways they help us feel the way we want to. Check out my instagram for many useful tips.
My yoga classes, yoga therapy sessions, courses and retreats are all designed with one intention: to change your life too.
Through my childhood and teenage years I was an anxious young man. Sure, I had a great life, but almost everything I did was dampened by underlying fear and anxiety. Then, in my early 20s, the panic attacks started and grew increasingly prevalent more disruptive. Some days they stopped me leaving my flat. Other days, they happened on the tube, or in the bathroom at work.
After I moved back to Jersey to 'sort myself out', my mum encouraged me to join her in a yoga class, and quickly things started to really change for me. Yoga classes had a unique ability to captivate me and slowly the whirring and rumination in my head began to settle. I would walk out of the yoga studio with a sense that I was grounded, and also spacious and free. A friend of mine recently described how yoga makes her feel less “scrunched” - both physically and mentally - like her body and her mind are ironed out in some way, and she cultivates this sense of freedom in both. From my experience of yoga, I think she nailed it.
Before long, I found myself sat in a Yoga Studio in London waiting for Day 1 of Yoga Teacher Training to begin and thinking "what on earth am I doing here?"
Yoga had become a habit, something that was making me feel so much better, I wanted to know why's and how’s and I wanted the transformation to keep going. To be honest, I was doing it for myself, and I wasn’t sure whether I would ever actually teach a yoga class. I believed that I wasn’t a “natural public speaker”, I wasn’t confident enough, I was inherently too anxious. On top of that, I was also very concerned about what people thought about me, and whether I would be judged if I got things wrong.
Teacher training was, however, hugely transformational. Dylan (my teacher) guided us through yoga practices everyday, taught us yoga philosophy that changed our relationship to the stresses and anxieties we face in day-to-day life, and supported me in confronting many of the “demons” that has previously held me back. By the end of the training, I had truly begun moving past them - a continuing process that I have vowed to myself to continue moment-by-moment and day-by-day.
‘To take one step is courageous; to stay on the path day after day, choosing the unknown, and facing yet another fear, that is nothing short of grace’. Donna Faulds.
By the end of teacher training, I was really excited to get out into the world and teach. After all, yoga had been so beneficial for me, it would have been deeply selfish of me not to share it with others.
So, I committed to learning and practicing, and that's what I have been doing for the last 6 years.
To transform my life and help other people transform their lives, so we can all be 100% ourselves, and live with more health, joy, peace of mind and love for ourselves and others.
I know what it’s like to be anxious. I know what its like to have panic attacks. I know what it’s like to run and hide away from things that I find challenging. I know what it’s like to have days when all I can think is ‘why is the f*ck is this happening to me?’ and ‘why won’t this anxiety go away?’.
I also know that yoga provides the antidote, a pathway to break through, and it is my mission to help others do just this.
Yoga, meditation and breath work are the greatest tools I have personally, and the greatest tools that I have to share. And, yoga now carries an exceptional amount of scientific and anecdotal evidence backing it’s transformational capabilities.
My invitation to you is: give yoga a go.