As soon as I was introduced to yoga, I was fascinated ... by its beauty, by how good it made me feel, and by the way in which it seemed to affect all the different aspects of my being. Far too soon I was teaching it, for in the early 1970s there were very few provisions for teacher training. I was sustained by my enthusiasm and deep love for what I was teaching.
In the 1980s I trained with the British Wheel of Yoga, and fairly soon after that started training teachers for the Wheel. At about the same time I met Gill Lloyd, and through her, Paul Harvey. When I attended a weekend with him, I realised that this was a teaching that made sense, that I could trust, and which could take me as far as I wanted to go. Paul was a student of T.K.V.Desikachar. He had lived in India for two years, studying with him, and on his return to the UK, had set up the Centre for Yoga Studies. I did his Practitioner Course from 1989 to 1992, and his postgraduate course. Since then I have continued to study in this tradition, both in England and in India, at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram. I served on the Council of the Association for Yoga Studies (which is what the Centre became, after a period known as Viniyoga Britain) for several years, and taught the aYs Introductory and Foundation Workshops. I trained teachers for the British Wheel of Yoga, governing body for yoga in the UK, and was on its Education Committee for several years, chairing it for three.
I am now a teacher trainer for the Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation, and I am training with them as a Yoga Therapist. Kausthub Desikachar is my mentor.
I have also studied and taught Vedic chanting for many years, loving the way it makes states of silence and wonder accessible to many.
My admiration for yoga and its ability to enhance anyone’s life has only grown over the years. I feel extremely privileged to have found it, and to be able to share my love for it.
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