My Approach
Finding calm in a demanding world
I chose the name Breathing Space for my yoga practice because it’s what we all need.
Life can feel overwhelming – not only when it’s busy, but also when we’re coping with world events, living with illness, or finding our way back to strength and confidence. We need the wisdom of yoga more than ever.
Yoga offers space: space to breathe, to pause, to rebalance, and to reconnect with ourselves. In challenging times, it provides a steady, compassionate way to meet life as it is.
Why yoga matters now
Yoga is a powerful antidote to the stresses of modern life. Its blend of breathwork, movement and mindful focus helps restore our physical and mental balance, strength and calm.
Many of us juggle busy schedules and multiple priorities. In a digital world, our nervous systems are continuously primed for rapid reactivity. Day-to-day we absorb – even if subconsciously – stresses from the wider conflicts and challenges that face humanity today. All this can often leave us feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. Practising yoga releases tension, steadies the mind and helps us stay grounded.
While yoga may not change the world, it can transform how we experience and move through it – how we think, respond, and show up each day, each moment.
'Experience is what we choose to attend to’
William James in The Principles of Psychology, 1890.
Move and be well
Yoga is an ancient embodied practice that unites breath, body, and mind to cultivate strength, calm, and resilience. It eases tension in the body, calms the mind, and helps us reconnect with ourselves – simply being, as we are, here and now.
Calm inside and out
Yoga is about deeply connecting with ourselves and with the essence of being alive. Through practice, we:
nurture the body for health and strength;
focus the mind for calm and clarity;
replenish the spirit with spaciousness, lightness, and contentment – even in challenging times.
Any age, any ability
Yoga is for everyone. Contemporary Hatha Yoga meets us exactly as we are – each day, each moment. It honours the natural ebb and flow of how we feel and move – we begin from where we are.
It’s the journey that matters – yoga supports us at every stage of life. By improving breath, posture, balance and strength yoga builds body confidence, flexibility and ease. As we age its benefits become ever more valuable, helping extend our healthy, active years.
Beyond the physical, yoga invites us inward – to deepen focus, refine awareness and accept ourselves with greater clarity and compassion.
Freedom as we are
There’s no such thing as perfection – in yoga or in life. Yet freeing ourselves from the competitive, performative messages of modern culture takes practice.
By attending to body, breath and mind, practising yoga help us find our own balance, strength, acceptance and ease in ourselves – Sthira, Sukha, Santosa – effort, ease, acceptance – the foundation for skilful living.
For me, to practise yoga is to rediscover that uniquely personal, poised point of balance: between outer and inner awareness, action and stillness, effort and acceptance.
Forget your perfect offering
There’s a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
- Leonard Cohen
