I’ve been involved with yoga since I was eighteen, when I was initiated by my guru, Swami Satyananda Saraswati. That blast has kept me going all these years.
After many years of practice and two years of teacher training, I started teaching in 2003 with good old adult education classes in London. Over the years courses, workshops and retreats followed for students and teachers on various aspects of yoga, including pranayama, meditation, yoga psychology and yantra drawing and painting, both in the UK and abroad.
Yantra and Mantra have been a major focus of my practice for many years now and together with the world of sacred arts, geometry and the alchemical process of making paint from minerals and plants, this has become an immersive and complete practice.
I was director and course coordinator for the Satyananda Yoga Academy of Europe for ten years, developing and running year-long courses in Yogic Studies offering total engagement in all areas of theory, philosophy, psychology and practice in the traditional approach to yoga as a way of life. Visiting the ‘mother ship’ every year in India and dedicating myself to karma yoga, the most essential path, was very much a focus of life for many years.
On this road, I have also been a juggler, fire breather and a life sharer. I worked for 15 years as a special needs teacher focusing on autism and a mental health social worker. During that time, I was exploring and experimenting with the usefulness of adapted yoga techniques in addressing the spectrum of needs in these environments.
Life has brought me into contact with many good people and i am very grateful to have had these opportunites to share and learn with them, long may it continue. Along the way I have been fortunate enough to see a little of this world.
