After over 30 years in the NSW Police, I was medically discharged with PTSD, anxiety and a range of physical injuries. I was broken, shattered with no self-esteem after feeling like I had lost my whole identity.  My whole world felt like it had been tipped upside down and I was encouraged to go to yoga by a friend.  I resisted at first as I was pretty much a gym junkie and was very skeptical of what it would do for me. I found myself outside a yoga studio and it soon became my whole purpose to keep going.  I fell in love with how it made me feel, the movement, the breathing and the reconnection of my body to my mind and to my breath.  It became my solace.  I found my anxiety started to decrease and over the years I have learnt to bring yoga and mindfulness into the way I live my life every day.

At my lowest point I went on my first yoga retreat, where with the amazing space and support that was provided by my beautiful teacher,  'I felt my heart beat again.' It was here that I realised I wanted to learn more and delve down the rabbit hole of yoga, so upon my return I signed up and completed my Yoga teacher training.

I have always wanted to 'give back' to First Responders as I am passionate about sharing the practice in the hope that I can help someone feel the way I do when I practice.  My goal is to run retreats to help peel back all the things that we think define us - we need to separate the person from the persona. 

I have completed hundreds of hours of further training including Trauma Aware Yoga, in order to deepen my awareness and understanding how trauma affects the mind and the body.

I am a late starter with my practice - starting just before I turned 50 - and I love every minute I am 'on my mat'.  I often say that I wish I had started yoga earlier, but the reply I get back from many of my  teachers is that "You started yoga when you needed to'  So, with that, I am extremely grateful that I found 'my mat and yoga' when I did.  I am here now to help support and encourage anyone else that thinks the same, to realise you too are starting when the time is right for you.