about

My background is in social justice work and capoeira Angola, the combination of which has taken me to complete a PhD in anthropology and to live for several years in Latin America. I came to yoga around 2007 in my early twenties, but it was when I was living in a particularly challenging context, as I accompanied human rights defenders in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, that I developed my own daily yoga and meditation practice.

This sadhana (practice) became my inner refuge, and the fire for my resilience, as I witnessed and denounced the injustice experienced by those around me. I honestly felt I would not have been able to deal with some of the situations we experienced, without the inner equilibrium, peace and strength I was able to cultivate daily on my mat. It was this experience, and the desire to make yoga more accessible to many more of the people who could most use these tools for self-and community-care and resilience, that drew me to teach.

 Following this call, I completed my 200hr Yoga Teacher Training in 2017. In 2018 I participated in two transformative 100hr immersions with my dear friend and teacher, Bex Tyrer, at the Yoga Barn in Bali – Yoga Philosophy and You, and Body Image, Identity and Yoga, which had an emphasis on yoga activism and unwinding the feminine aspects of the practice.

 I have completed workshops and trainings with the following teachers and organizations: Sianna Sherman, Greta Hill, Shiva Rea, Bex Tyrer, Mischa Varmuza, Nova Milesko, Dr Yogi, Sally Kempton, and Ourmala.  Most recently I completed the 300hr Rasa Yoga Teacher Training with Sianna Sherman and Greta Hill, which has has a transformative effect on my teaching and practice.

I am deeply dedicated to the practice, study and sharing of the transformative, healing and radical potential of yoga.

 I have also been practicing the African-Brazilian art of capoeira Angola since 2007, and I am now the teacher and Treinela at FICA (ICAF - International Capoeira Angola Foundation) London. I travel to Brazil when I can to drink from the source and learn directly from my masters. This of course has a great influence on my yoga practice, including my understanding of the body in flow, and a love of handstands! I currently train handstands with Daniel de Oliveira.

 To complement your movement practice, I also offer Ayurvedic Yoga Massage, in which I was trained in by Despina Psarras at AYM UK to Level 2 in 2019 and 2022.