I have been practicing yoga and meditation in a Buddhist context for over 25 years. My journey with this combination of practices began in 1994 when I became inspired by the story of the Buddha’s enlightenment and set out to learn more. This I have done in the context of the Triratna Buddhist Community and was ordained in 2006. A significant aspect of my path has been working with the body particularly through yoga. I had many personal challenges and issues in myself to deal with and an engagement with yoga gave me an invaluable way to work with myself enabling ease in a way that nothing else had. Inspired by my own experience of the practice in 2003 I qualified as a teacher in the Iyengar tradition, in more recent years my practice and teaching have moved significantly to a more breath led movement practice more inspired by Gary Kraftsow and Donna Farhi. To reorient my teaching I have undertaken training with Sadhita and Sudaka, two Order members of the Triratna Buddhist Order who have over 40 years of yoga experience between them. Their approach of Bodhiyoga draws on the Buddha's Satipatthana teaching; by applying this teaching to traditional hatha yoga postures, yoga asana becomes a mindfulness practice