Hi, I’m Em …

I am all chips in, to share this extraordinary tradition we call yoga. After a 2023 deeper dive period of study, I am more passionate than ever to share the benefits and joys of yoga with my community, to play a part helping others to discover stronger, healthier, wiser, wilder, easeful, peaceful living.

I have been enjoying, self-studying and living my yoga for more than two decades. The first yoga class I ever went to was in a drafty arts centre and the flyer suggested wearing PJs for comfort. The yoga world has changed and evolved a lot since then, as has my relationship with yoga. My joy, curiosity and commitment toward yoga were there form the start. Through many ups (getting married, professional/ academic/ creative successes, travel, pregnancy, burning the candle at both ends) and downs (gynae surgery, seven year long infertility battle, IVF, PTSD, injuries, perimenopause, arthritis, grief) I’ve built a deep knowledge of what yoga can be and do for us, through the challenges, the wins, the falling down and getting back up, seasons of life lived.

From leaving home for university, I lived in London. After graduation, I worked in the third sector and local government, in youth homelessness and socio-economic regeneration. Around that full-time career, I continued studying, part-time (PGCLTHE, MFA, MA and MSc).

By 2015, now in my early forties, juggling two miracle babies under three, still working and studying, I was exhausted and burnt out. London living was unsustainably expensive. My family and I relocated to the Chew Valley, North Somerset. I knew how much yoga had enriched, saved and made my life along the way, and I began to dream a dream of serving others by sharing yoga. At first, around raising the kids, I walked and boarded lots of gorgeous pooches as I began to save and plan my dream into being.

Since 2019, I have consolidated my lived experience of yoga with nearly a thousand hours of accredited teacher training. I’m now qualified to teach the three styles/ lineages of yoga that are the bedrock of my personal practice: Hatha Vinyasa, Original Hot Yoga 26+2 and Yin Yoga and Mindfulness. With further specialisms in flexibility coaching, myofascial conditioning and yoga for the menopause transition. All of my teaching is trauma sensitive and informed.

In 2024, my miracle babies are both in secondary school, our family pooch (daughter of one of my boarding regulars) is three, my husband works from home for a Bristol based company, developing greener transport solutions. I’m in my early fifties, stronger, fitter, wiser and ever more peaceful within. Although my first focus remains, being Mum, or rather ‘Mum’s Cabs’, I am ready to share my attention and I am super stoked to expand my yoga offer.

I respect the traditional roots of yoga, whilst ensuring the approaches and techniques I share are scientifically, evidence-based and informed.  It never fails to get me excited, discovering scientific research confirming and enhancing what yogis intuited millennia ago, what I’ve witnessed others experience and what I’ve personally experienced through practise. With regular practice, yoga can bring us great joy, hold us up, mend us, humble us, recreate us and truly transform us, over and over.

I’m an ordinary person, in a regular body. I’ve never been a gymnast or a dancer. I was exercise avoidant until I turned thirty. The extraordinary ways in which yoga has supported and changed me, could 100% support and change you too. Ordinary people experiencing extraordinary changes through their yoga practice happens all the time. Practice, repeat, practice is everything. There is no limit to where our practice might take us. It doesn’t matter where we start from. But we do have to start.

If you’d like to find out more about what yoga could be and do for you, please get in touch. I would love to be a part of your yoga story.