Everything I teach started with my own yearning to live from body, spirit, mind authentically.

I wanted to feel, not simply be told, that peace within exists, so I turned to Yoga & Meditation, practising now for over 16 years, teaching since 2012 and receiving my certification in 2013 from Union Yoga UK.  Since this time, I've been fortunate enough to study intensively with Matthew Sweeney, and have followed very closely Donna Farhi, which has included attended two of her retreats. It was both Matthew and Donna that planted the seeds for further exploration outside of the Yoga paradigm.

I felt my body asking for acknowledgment of its magnificence, so I turned to Embodiment practices first encountered in Donna Farhi's Yoga Body, Mind & Spirit.  I needed to express myself with a wider movement vocabulary, so I turned to Dance. I had to understand what influences my actions and beliefs, so I turned to Gestalt Therapy, first introduced to me by Matthew at his Rishikesh retreat.

All those years ago when I did that first Yoga class and without realising it, the seed of a senses beyond thread was being sown in the midst of sleeplessness, anxiety, and chronic bewilderment. I'll forever be indebted to Yoga & Meditation for giving me the simple tools to go within and beyond worrying through the interplay of breath-movement, and sensing the inherent peace within. I teach from this profound appreciation and the dialogue I continue to have with this ancient practice.

Through Yoga, I entered the door of body and realised I hadn't in a long time stepped inside and moved from her, even during the practice of Yoga. My journey in Embodiment began as I felt the stark difference between telling my body what to do and listening, being and moving from this vast intelligence.

My evolving experience in Embodiment, how the mind is not confined to the head but is laced in every part of the living organism we call 'body', adds another thread to senses beyond.

I had so much to express, but my vocabulary was limited. I had an urge to create a new word, but as I'd stopped dance classes in my late teens, the letters were no longer forthcoming. Learning new dance patterns paved the way to begin to communicate with myself in a way that words cannot as movement is so often under our consciousness, whereas words tend to arise out of what is already known. senses beyond gained another thread.

I was behaving in ways I didn't want to, feeling stuck in particular thought/emotional patterns. There are things I cannot see and have to see to move forward. With its equal emphasis on mind/body, and roots in Buddhism, the humanistic Gestalt Therapy has not only helped me to truly understand myself better, but brought me deeper into what it means to be alive in relationship to myself and others. The Gestalt thread was created.

And within all of these threads are people. The thousands of students I've taught since 2012, from elite athletes to the people who walk/zoom in to the class share themselves with me. Our co-created experience is shaping the web of connection practices that is senses beyond.