Teacher Details

Why Yoga Why Meditation Why Gyrotonic®?

I began my practice of yoga in 1994 whilst living and working as a qualified naturalist guide in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador. From 1996 to 1997 I furthered my yoga teacher training in Mysore, Goa and at the prestigious ‘Yoga Works’ yoga studio in Santa Monica, California.

I am a professional teacher of Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation (shamatha & vipassyana Buddhist Practices) and I am a certified Level 1 instructor in the Gyrotonic Expansion System®. My Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation and Gyrotonic® practice and teaching have evolved out of Astanga roots and an alchemy of many different systems and influences bound together over fifteen years of studying yoga and Buddhist mindfulness trainings through “shamatha” (calm-abiding) and vipassyana (insight).

I integrate correct technique based on the principles of anatomy, physiology, postural alignment and structural relationships, with intuition and sense-feeling; strength with flexibility and fluidity; and contrast through opposition creating a movement into stillness through isometric contraction and experiencing the body’s tensegrity. These ingredients are bound together with a mindfulness based on mental quiescence, calm-abiding, clarity and wisdom towards attaining a total body-mind experience. I believe that systems, styles, or the paradigms of different yoga or exercise methodologies and business franchises are not important, rather that we develop the adaptability and flexibility of an open-mind which will allow us to assimilate the best of ancient wisdoms and new, whether it be yoga or any other physical practice, science, or meditation, in order to attain our individual potential to the best of our ability. This is the path of the “awakening warrior”.

On that path I endeavour to bring mindful-awareness into everyday living and to my practice and teaching of yoga, meditation, and the Gyrotonic Expansion System®.

I am also certified in Yoga Therapy for Musculoskeletal Conditions, and Sports Massage Therapy. My quietude, serenity and sense of interdependence and interconnectedness in all things derives from having lived and worked in nature as a qualified naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador and from my Buddhist path.