I first started attending a month after my mom suddenly passed away! I always felt welcome and surrounded but people who actually cared about me! Yoga played a major part in my healing! I will be forever grateful for That Yoga Place.
I believe we are more than our thoughts, experiences and emotions. Yoga helps us move beyond what may seem like limitations. Or our limiting beliefs surrounding them. To find a connection to our true selves; the true nature of our being.
Yoga came into my life at a time I was really struggling, what felt like true rock bottom or a dark night of the soul as they say. My lifelong struggle with mental health, specifically anxiety, depression and debilitating panic attacks, felt like something I would never be able to work through. Like I would be stuck with it forever and nothing could help. The amount of healing I was able to obtain from Yoga and its practices was so invaluable, and like nothing I had ever experienced before. Eventually, it inspired me to want to teach and hold space for others experiencing similar challenges. Which in time, my passion for the practices has evolved into many different forms of teaching and for different kinds of students.
The yoga I love most are interoceptive and slower practices such as Yin, Restorative and Nidra as they have been so supportive for regulating my nervous system and in recovering from my personal trauma’s. A lot of what I love about these practices is the empowerment we can obtain from self exploration and healing. Since the birth of my first baby last July, I have grown extremely passionate about Pre, Peri and Post Natal yoga practices as well as Baby and Me and Children’s Yoga. Supporting parents and their sweet babes on their journey in life feels so fulfilling!
My mission is to offer inclusive and encouraging spaces for exploration and self-study, incorporating inner awareness practices, breath work and gentle movement. My work is inspired and guided by the ancient tradition of yoga and supported by modern science. I am a 500 RYT from Prana Yoga and C-IAYT Yoga Therapist from Ajna Yoga in Victoria.
-True healing comes from the self and a good yoga facilitator is just holding space. I used to think it was the teacher as the guru or healer, but soon realized all the power is already within me. We are all our own healer.