What isn’t touching everything else? This is the question we started a weekend of teachers sangha and inquiry with Jean Hall and Anna Ashby. For me, assists are moderate and compassionate. They are a way to encourage a student's own experience of being in their body. I love to encourage independent inquiry, which is so often informed by the students themselves and can be broken with a ‘teacher knows best’ approach to touch.

If you’ve practiced with me already this month you might have noticed my current obsession…. feet. We’ve been playing with weight bearing through different surface areas of the foot (think: toes, top and sides of feet), exploring a slow motion walk that turns into a broader, floaty balance and letting our feet get really curious about space in shapes that require zero contact to ground. All in the act of resensitising our super intelligent feet to the world.

Why do I practice yoga? A short and sweet poem which just some of the things that bring me to the mat. Again and again.

I’m in the days after a long weekend of yoga, surf and slowness in the beautiful North Cornish town of Mawgan Porth here’s my insights on how I plan to teach long vinyasa yoga sequences on retreat and incorporate meditation, somatic, pranayama and qigong practices too.

What does it mean to be sensitive to the world? As a yoga teacher I believe that yoga, breath and meditation can awaken a deep innate sensitivity in all of us.

As the place in the body we might consider as the seat of compassion, the heart is able to both give and receive, experiencing a deep felt understanding for others and bathing in this compassion as it washes back to us. Through the practice of yoga, we feel the heart empty and fill continuously.

From the outside, yoga can seem like a branch of the commercial wellness industry. Yoga is marketed here in the West as a way to sharpen our bodies and minds, becoming the optimum version of ourselves. But what if we used the practice to just, be?

Two weeks on from participating in John Stirk’s profound ‘The Source’ workshop at Mission E1 I write some words about the experience and the subtle ways it has influenced my self practice and teaching since.

The body is an ocean. Conceptual as this might sound, it is the truth of our existence. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine and the philosophies of Daoism, the element of water in associated with the deepest days of winter.

In the days after a near-year long deep dive into a Daoist Flow teacher training, I’m taking a little time to reflect on my initial intentions when starting this course, observing the things that have shifted and the things that have deepened in my practice 11 months on.

Those of you who practise with me regularly will know we explore something a little different each week - with changing patterns and themes that move through the seasons. Here's a look at my creative planning process that goes on behind the scenes.

Observation gives us the opportunity to step back from the roles of student and teacher and instead observe, without participating, as the class unfolds. This is a truly fascinating space to inhabit and I’ve found the practice completely eye-opening.

This week I’ve been approaching intentions with an open and somatic approach - allowing the quality to be felt in the body, considering where it arises and how it might feel. How do you use intention in your yoga practice?

Today marks the spring equinox and 6 glorious months of long days and warmer temperatures lay ahead. If, like me, you love to spend as many hours of the day soaking up the sun's rays as possible, this can feel like a powerful and exciting time.

After our second intensive study session, here’s a few reflections from our work on primary movement patterns - where we have been questioning the way we approach patterns in asana and transitions and start to explore non-linear ways of moving on the mat.

This started as my very first regular class after finishing my 200 hour training back in the summer of 2021. It’s been the most gorgeous space to host classes and I have loved having the freedom to develop my practice here - exploring new styles, testing the waters and building confidence with each week. I can’t thank the Pamban team enough for opening the doors to me as a brand new teacher.

Late summer is the fifth season followed in Chinese five element theory. It falls through August and September, when the peak of fiery heat begins to fade and we transition to the hazy days of late summer. It’s a season to ground, find clarity and slow down to appreciate the richness of life. It always resonates with a feeling of ‘coming home’ to me.

The nervous system. This intricate physiological system controls everything we do. It is our source of internal communication, with nerves running through the entirety of the body - carrying messages for the mind to interpret, process and then make appropriate actions.

In yin yoga we have the chance to explore the curious process of taking things slow. During a class we’ll hold poses for around 5 minutes. Exploring the subtlest movements in the body and the sense of true presence that runs alongside these mindful observations. Approached with a soft kindness, there is no end point or final expression to the shapes we hold.

Taking a month out from London winter, Drew and myself have set up home in Southern Sri Lanka for 4 weeks of surf and sun. Aaahhh. We’ve just finished 3 days of surfing with Surf School Sri Lanka in Kabalana Beach and it’s got me thinking about the beautiful overlap between surf and yoga. Beyond the obvious strength and mobility a regular yoga practice can give you, the underlying principles of truly being present, awareness of the body and a sense of softening in to movement can really change the experience on the board.