About the Practice
My work is grounded in the tradition of Hatha yoga and deeply inspired by the approach of Vanda Scaravelli. Central to this way of working is the understanding that yoga is not a method to be imposed, but a process of listening — allowing the body to reveal how it wants to move.
Vanda herself resisted the idea of her work becoming a fixed system. That spirit of curiosity, responsiveness and respect for the body remains at the heart of my teaching.
How I Came to This Work
I came to this practice through my own experience of living with a bad back and years of physical struggle. Initially sceptical, I arrived at a yoga class almost by accident.
What I discovered felt revolutionary. Instead of being asked to hold or push into shapes, I began to move and wiggle, to explore sensation and make new connections. Slowly, a sense of freedom returned — one that I hadn’t felt for years, perhaps even since childhood. The body began to unravel long-held patterns, revealing space, lightness and ease where there had once been effort and pain.
This experience shaped not only how I practise, but how I teach.
A Slow, Exploratory Approach
This is a creative and mindful way of working with the body. Rather than instructing the body into postures, the practice invites an inquiry:
What wants to move? What can soften? What happens when effort is reduced?
Working slowly and deeply, I support students in tuning into their own movement patterns. Together we explore how the body may arrive at a posture through listening and adaptation, with the intention of finding release, balance, lift and freedom rather than achievement.
Postures are shaped around the individual body, not the other way around. Strength and space develop naturally through awareness, sensitivity and patience.
Experience and Training
I have been developing this work for over 25 years and have trained in teaching yoga as well as myofascial movement. While my background provides a strong foundation, the emphasis in my teaching is not on instruction or correction, but on gentle guidance and embodied exploration.
The practice is non-competitive and non-ambitious. There is no expectation to perform, compare or push beyond comfort. Instead, the invitation is to slow down, notice and trust the body’s innate intelligence.
Yoga for Everyday Life
I am deeply interested in how this way of moving supports us beyond the mat. By working with gravity, the spine and the breath — fundamental elements of this approach — we begin to inhabit the body with greater intelligence and awareness.
Over time, this can translate into everyday life: moving with more ease and grace, responding rather than reacting, and learning how to drop through layers of tension to a place of softness and support.
This work is for anyone, regardless of age, experience or physical limitation. It is not about acrobatics, flexibility or ambition, but about reconnecting with the body’s natural rhythm and rediscovering a simple joy in movement.
