AQUA OM YOGA

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My journey with yoga started quite early in life. I remember my first Yoga teacher, a hippy mama who was travelling around the world in a camper van with her husband and two young kids, coming to our home every day and practicing simple poses such as padakonasana, sukhasana and childs pose to help me find my balance and better my walking after being born with hip dysplasia. I must have been around 7 years old at the time, fascinated with the practice and it's ties to exotic India.

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In my later teens I found a Hatha Yogini who inspired a more regular practice for a while, set in nature on my Island home of Cyprus. 

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My restless spirit took me travelling around Asia and the Indian Subcontinent, finding a quieter practice during my pregnancy in Japan and finally taking the leap to deepen my connection in October 2015, when I embarked on the journey of an Ashtanga/Vinyasa TTC in Goa, India.

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Since then I have been teaching Vinyasa Flow classes to beginners and Intermediate students through the "YoYa" initiative (Yoga In the Yard) A community based practice, outside the studio environment, around Tay Ho and Ciputra, Hanoi. I have taught Hatha Yoga Flow classes at the Fitness Village, also in Tay Ho, Hanoi and Vinyasa to Grade 5 students at the United Nations Int'l School of Hanoi as part of their movement units. I have regularly taught kids yoga in a collaboration with Crossfit Tay Ho during my time in Hanoi. Since relocating to Bucharest in August 2018, I've taught at the American International School of Bucharest twice weekly (Vinyasa and Yin Yoga) to parents. I founded Yoga tribe Bucharest in 2018 and the first collaboration begins with Phill Restaurant in March with two classes weekly in their events space.

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Tying together my love of Water and movement, I began teaching Aqua Yoga at the evian Spa in Hanoi in early 2016. I was amazed at the healing that can occur from the element of water itself, but also the ability to make yoga available to people with lower mobility or chronic pain who would otherwise find it difficult to participate in a  land based yoga class. Making the body weightless and light in the water has opened up yoga's benefits truly to everyone, even those with mobility issues.

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More recently I was blessed to find Yin Yoga and lucky enough to study with Sebastian Pucelle and Murielle Burellier of With-Yin Yoga, both students of Paul & Suzee Grilley (Initiators of Yin-Yoga). Finding stillness in my personal practice and a balance between the yang and yin aspects of yoga, has been a transformational experience, one which I hope to continue exploring further.

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I'm inspired daily by my teachers, who are the light that keeps me on my path of learning, as well as my own students, who bless me with the infinite joy there is in sharing the practice.

I'm forever motivated not to give up on the days when I'm not as strong or flexible as others (both in my mind and in my body) by Täo Porchon-Lynch, who's spirit and joy for life moves my soul.

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My deepest gratitude goes to my family, Andy and Agonda, who have always supported and encouraged my yoga journey. 

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