Yoga can benefit the physical body, the nervous system, respiratory and emotional health. If you are seeking the benefits of a gentle but demanding physical yoga practice - increased mobility, stability and ease of movement and breath - or the benefits of a calmer and quieter mind, please join me, you are all welcome.
Like many others, I discovered Yoga by passing through a doorway into a yoga class. What began as a purely physical experience has matured with practice and patience into something much greater. Yoga.
In the fullest sense.
A practice both on and off the mat. Of attentiveness to the movement of the body in the present moment, the movement of the breath, the relationship to the ground and space. The movement of the mind in relation to the body and breath, and what all this can uncover about habitual or conditioned patterns, with the freedom and potential to reform them. To find stillness and non-reaction.
“Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature…” Patanjali's Yoga Sutras 1:2,3
It is a way of being in life, living from a place of non-separation, acting in a way – on and off the mat – that does no harm, from compassion for oneself, for others and for everything on our planet, realising that ultimately there is no difference despite our personal uniqueness.
“We live in the water and function as the wave” - Michael Stone
I live and teach on the west coast of Scotland on the beautiful Isle of Seil. As a yoga practitioner for over 12 years and a teacher for four, I am inspired every day by the sense of community and connection that yoga nurtures.
My personal yoga practice and teaching does not fall neatly under one label but is the result of ongoing personal exploration, drawing together threads as diverse as Scaravelli inspired practice and traditional pranayama. The practice is one of attention, of ease in movement, of acceptance of what is manifesting and felt in the present moment, in body, breath, speech and mind.
Training:
2012 - Ongoing: Pranayama training, Kaivalyadham tradition, (and so much more) with Anne Lonsdale
2014-16: Yoga teacher training at Triyoga, London with Catherine Annis and Kate Ellis
2017: Restorative Yoga qualification with Deborah Berryman at Whitespace Yoga
2016-18: The Art of Teaching 1 to 1 – Embodied Relational Yoga with Kate Ellis
2016-18: Teacher Training Assistant to Catherine and Kate at Triyoga
2019-21: Ongoing, Teacher Training Assistant to Catherine at Intelligent Yoga
Workshops with Sri O P Tiwari, Sudhir Tiwari, Catherine Annis, Peter Blackaby, Donna Farhi, Sandra Sabatini, Gary Carter
“Practice makes life fresh” - Michael Stone
Website: https://www.isleyoga.net/
Contact me to deepen your yoga practice.
