About
Me

My own path towards yoga began several years ago, on the day when the car my friend was driving overturned at speed and left me crumpled on the verge with a broken back. I had one vertebrae completely shattered and out of place, decreasing the diameter of the spinal cord to one third. According to modern medical opinion, this was enough to leave me paralysed from the waist down. 
I was not. I was airlifted to the capital and spent a whole month on a hospital bed. After two operations and 6 months of wearing a cast, more than a year later I was medically ‘cured’. From this point, I was able to lead a ‘normal’ life - but this life has been different since then. The shock of how close I was to being confined to a wheelchair, led me to properly and honestly appreciate life - including something as simple as being able to walk - rather than just taking it for granted. I felt I had been given another chance.
Achieving full, and lasting, recovery gave me the empowering realisation of how much own actions and mindset contribute to our healing. I started a journey of self awareness and learnt about, and tried, different alternative ways of healing, and became a vegetarian. I discovered yoga 15 years ago and have been practicing it ever since. It became a passion, a way of life. I only wish it had happened earlier! Now I feel that I am in control of my life, not the other way around. I have been happily married, given birth to two children, and have kept my whole family healthy for almost two decades.
I always wanted to help people heal, but becoming a western doctor was not my path. I studied at university to gain a degree as a teacher, but the classroom setting didn’t always feel right. Through yoga therapy and yin yoga, I am blessed to be finally doing both, from, and with, my heart.