I live on the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales. It's a quiet rural place with a wonderful wild elemental beauty and amazing night skies. 

In my spare time  I have  been involved in Classical Tantra &  Druidry for many years. I also love to spend time growing veggies, walking, and spending time with my rescue dog Dylan and my four Kune Kune pigs, Albie, Humphrey, Wlibur and Digby. All of whom help to keep my feet firmly planted on the earth!

Professionally I have studied and practiced in a variety of areas where one interest led to the next so they all feel connected.....

Yoga 

My passion for yoga began as teenager as I became fascinated with yoga philosophy, and this has continued to this day. In my 20's I studied with the Sivananda, Desikachar and Iyengar yoga traditions, going on to become a yoga teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga at age 30. I was invited to become a British Wheel of Yoga Tutor, and enjoyed running BWY Yoga Teacher Training Diplomas for more than 25 years. I have also taught many times at the BWY Teachers Training Week, which has always been a pleasure.

More recently I was commissioned to write a series of yoga courses to be run throughout China as the government sponsored form of yoga. It was felt that most yoga currently available in China was too forceful and created too many injuires so it was a great honour to introduce yoga highlighting working with individual capacities and intelligent progression, rooting the practices in accessible yogic philosophy. To this end yoga foundation, yoga teacher training and yoga therapy courses have been written; and having spent far too long at the computer the exciting news is that these courses began to be taught in China starting in August 2011.

Ayurveda

I am a fully qualified and insured Ayurvedic Consultant who initially trained with the American Institute of Vedic Studies under the tutorage of Dr David Frawley (Vaidya Vama Deva), and then with the European Institute of Vedic Studies under the tutorage of Vaidya Atreya Smith and Alex Duncan. I have also completed a Clinical Internship with Dr Alaknanda Rao (B.A.M.S) and Dr Deepa Kshire (B.A.M.S) at the Panini Clinic, Pune, India, and have since taken various short courses with several Ayurvedic Doctors in the U.K.

Mindfulness Training

Over the last few years I have been working more intensively with mindfulness practices, especially practising and teaching meditations focusing upon our emotional self. Having attended several training courses with the University of Bangor in North Wales I went on to complete their Mindfulness Based Teacher Training Programme. I am now planning to begin teaching mindfulness techniques to others as they can be so very transformative and certainly make the ordinary extra-ordinary! Mindfulness is also very relevant indeed to the practices of Yoga and Ayurveda, and was certainly a key aspect of the Yoga Teacher Training Diploma. 

Healing 

I have been working with energy medicine in various forms for many years, in particular focusing upon developing my receptivity skills. In 2021 graduating as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, a therapy which possesses the same underlying view of the world as we find in Yoga, especially Tantrik Yoga. A joy to give and receive!

Evolutionary Astrology

Since my teenage years I have been interested in astrology, carrying my favourite (if rather heavy) astrology books on my travels in my 20s. I originally became fascinated because of a desire to know if our lives are patterned, because if they were that would point to an intelligent universe in which there is inherent meaningfulness. And yes to my surprise that proved to be true....I have been able to more intensively study over the last few years, studying astrology with the great evolutionary astrologer Steven Forrest who brings such heart and poetry to his decades of practice. I feel honoured to be able to offer Evolutionary Astrological consultations.

Druidry 

I have continued in my studies with the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids and become an Awenydd of the Anglesey Druidry Order. This has been an extraordinary journey of celebration of the natural world and experiential studies of our relationship to self and other. The journey continues.....

 The Festival of Holi, Himalayas, March 2014