My journey to yoga and self-healing

In my early 20s I suffered with chronic back and shoulder pain caused by muscle weakness and sitting at a desk all day. I was also struggling with anxiety, stress and burnout from working in my corporate job in financial services. I had no idea who I was at this time and didn’t know what I wanted out of life. 

In 2015 I moved to East London and joined a gym which had a huge offering of classes including yoga in various modalities. I tried out a range of different classes and kept coming back to yoga. 

Away from yoga, I’d been feeling constant tension and stress. But being on my mat was the place I could feel at peace. Before long I noticed a considerable reduction in my back and shoulder pain as well as improvements in my mobility, strength, balance and well-being generally.

The following year I moved somewhere else where I wasn’t able to find many in-person yoga offerings that I could afford, so I took my practice online instead and found many great yoga teachers on YouTube. I was also fortunate to have a housemate who taught yoga and took some classes with her. 

I moved to a new area again in 2017 and found a great teacher who I practised with alongside strength training in a gym, but I also kept coming back to a number of teachers on YouTube. I later joined Triyoga where I practice today with some of the UK's leading yoga teachers. 

It was during lockdown that I came to find a deep resonance with the spiritual and philosophical side of yoga. It was also during this time that I decided I wanted to start to shift away from my corporate career and take action steps towards my dream of building my own business promoting inner healing and well-being in others, which is what set me on the path to take my 200 hour yoga teacher training with Brett Larkin, followed by her 300 hour course. You can now find me teaching online and at Croydon Yoga Hub.