About me

I am passionate about healing and have devoted my life to healing and connecting to my authenticity. This is what I aim to do for my students.

My personal mission is to stay connected to my heart and live from an authentic place - to speak, think and move from my truth. That is the essence of wholehearted living - to move from your heart rather than all the noise in your head.

Through my journey of self-exploration and education in yoga, I have developed my authentic and compassionate practice of wholehearted yoga, which means to connect to, and move from your heart; to find your truth and live authentically.

My style of teaching

I focus on integrating the different yogic practices to help ground students, release tension and stress, relax the nervous system, and bring our attention to presence. This often helps bridge the gap between our mind, body and soul, which cultivates self-awareness and helps connects us to our selves. This can often have profound healing effects on our selves and often leaves us feeling joy and an overall sense of wellbeing.

I teach hatha, hatha-vinyasa, yin and restorative yoga as well as meditation, but my favourite style of yoga is hatha because it integrates different practices of yoga to create a holistic experience and facilitate the exploration of the self. My classes integrate movement, breathwork (pranayama), meditation, together with mantra and sound-healing

As a lover of sound and song, I also love sharing sound healing and bhakti yoga (reciting mantra) and will almost always include some aspects in sound in my classes.

All of my classes are inclusive and accessible to everyone and I am a trauma and pre-natal informed instructor. My style of yoga is gentle and guides you safely to move to your edge and my core focus is to help you releasing tension, come back to the present moment and cultivating self-love and awareness to re-ignite the connection between your body and mind. 

 Living wholeheartedly means to show up in the world as you really are, and always follow your intuition. This is how I teach my classes - from my heart to yours. I create my classes intuitively - with what my body and heart feels is needed at the time and deliver these classes with love, acceptance and compassion. 

My goal is to create a safe and welcoming environment for people to freely explore their voices, breath and bodies through yoga and sound. I offer a lot of props and modifications so that anyone can do the pose as I strongly believe that yoga is intended to be available to anyone who seeks it. It's not a competition to get into the most difficult pose. It's about wherever you are in the moment and what feels good for you.

My yoga journey

I've been practising yoga since I was 17 and completed my 500 hour Yoga Teacher and Meditation Training in 2023 at the beautiful Kookaburra Yoga Centre with my amazing teachers, Mandy BeckerKnox and Robert Becker. Since graduation, I have been fortunate to be practising under the guidance of my teacher and mentor, Jean Campbell to continue deepening my practice, learn about my body and heal my past injuries.

I initially started yoga as a way to stay fit while doing something that wasn't too hard or strenuous on my body. I kept practising over the years, on and off, mainly for physical appearance.

I went to many yoga studios, most of the time feeling out of my depth or not properly enjoying the classes but just doing it because it seemed like a good way to get fit. That was until I discovered Yoga with Adrienne (youtube online sensation) who showed a style that really resonated with me and taught me that yoga was more than just doing a really strenuous difficult pose where you're balancing on your hands with your legs up. It didn't have to be that difficult and could be at a level that suited you. You could really tailor it to suit how your body felt in that moment. That's one of the things I fell in love with about the practice ~ That yoga meets you where you are in this moment

After practising more and more, I started to develop a deeper awareness of mindfulness and wellness and began exploring further and deepening my practice to include mindfulness, meditation and pranayama (breathwork)

 In 2020, I started wondering - "what would it be like to be a yoga teacher"? The thought sat there but never really eventuated. After all, the plan was for me to become a lawyer

 In 2023, my life was in a dark place and I was feeling lost ~ I decided to dive into my curiosity and sign up for a 500 hour yoga teacher and meditation training at Kookaburra Yoga.

My journey to authenticity

My journey has been an interesting one ~ and has shifted from disconnected from my emotions, my body and my self, unhealthy habits and obsession with material possessions and success, and an unhealthy and injured body, to a life that feels well and whole from the inside, a life that is fulfilling, and an authentic life.

Yoga among a number of other supports have most certainly helped me on my journey to find my authentic self ~ I used to be solely focused on what was outside, rather than inside - completely disregarding that happiness and health came from within. I used to want only material success - to be a successful corporate worker, lawyers and entrepreneur (I changed my path many times). I filled my life with unhealthy habits and addiction. I used to be overweight and had an array of different addictions. I had an eating disorder, depression and so much anxiety and stress.

Growing up, I was scared to share who I really was and often did things to please others even when I didn't want to do it. I rarely spoke up and expressed my needs and vulnerabilities, which ultimately led to feeling misaligned with who I was while trying so hard to fit into the world. This included so many years of going on fad diets and exercise programs to “get fit” and “look beautiful", even though no matter what I did, I never felt “good enough”. I tried so many things and met so many people without really thinking about it and thinking about who I was or what I needed. I couldn't at the time because i was disconnected from who I was. Through my journey, I also unfortunately experienced two debilitating spinal injuries, caused from years of poor posture and neglect to my body.

Through the journey of self-discovery, traveling and yoga, I was able to heal my body, find my true self, and my voice, and know what I really wanted to do.

Slowly but surely, as I began to shed the layers and connect with myself more, I started embracing what i thought was flaws within me - my sensitivity, creativity, my voice, writing and intuition and began living wholeheartedly. I always thought wearing my heart on my sleeve was a bad thing because of the pain I experienced from it but I was just in the wrong places at the wrong time.

This is how I live today. And this is how I teach - from the heart to yours. I create my classes intuitively - with what my body and heart feels is needed at the time and deliver these classes from the heart with love, acceptance and compassion. 

 This is what I hope to share with others in the power of wholehearted living through yoga.