Yoga is a very personal thing. I found the right yoga and the right teacher for me after searching for my inner joy in many places, some were obviously helpful and others considerably less so, all, though, were required for me to find the right place to be. I committed to daily practice and completed 2, year long, yoga teacher training programmes of postures (asana) and breathwork (pranayama). The third, meditation (dhyana) programme is underway too. This method of yoga has taught me how to be the joy bringer for myself, I no longer need to seek it outside of myself.

After a couple of decades educating people about fitness, health and wellbeing I left my job and traveled for a year with my Hubbee in our VW campervan to the far north of Scotland and Scandinavia, to the far south of New Zealand and to the western edges of Europe and Morocco. I took my practice outside and found deep connection to nature and life within that practice. Once back in the UK I found myself full of energy to share this beautiful system of yoga, so Yoga Is Union was born. This system has its foundations in Hatha yoga. ‘Ha’ means sun, ‘tha’ means moon. These opposing masculine and feminine forces are at play in us all and are united by the practice.

The yoga strips back things which do not serve your liberation. Sometimes this process can be very conscious, even uncomfortable - as the mind and body change and unravel there can naturally be some turbulence, this is normal as the ego resists its gradual diminishing; the practice itself is a great support in these times. Yet, at other times, deep changes happen completely unconsciously and you reflect after some years that things are entirely different now, not through effort and will, but through your own dedicated practice. You realise that you have been your own hero, all along, simply by turning up and offering yourself into the practice.

My wish for you is that you dedicate yourself to your practice, each session as long and as often as is realistic for you, with as much attention, love and faith as you can muster each time you come to the mat. That you practice innocently, for the sake of each breath and each posture, without seeking an outcome. That the practices I share support you in your reunion with yourself and with life.

Namaste