My Background

I worked for two decades in high-profile, senior crisis communication roles as well as consulting start-ups, volunteering in several countries and performing on stage. You could say I was a do-er that couldn’t stop doing.

My journey into the power of meditation began whilst on an academic year-long career break in 2002 when I decided to go to drama school and found myself focusing my Masters dissertation on integrative meditation techniques to unblock stage fright and anxiety in actors. Following the success of my meditations and my increased curiosity, I embarked on years of learning and practising various spiritual, psychological and philosophical techniques and also became a professional horticulturist! I was becoming a do-er learning be-ing.

I am trained and practiced in chakra body work, Yoga Nidra, NSDR, heart, brain and breathing techniques, neuroscience, biology, meditation, integrative psychotherapy and counselling, psychodrama and ecotherapy (what a mouthful!).

My personal development has continued over the years with various schools and wonderful teachers, including gaining a post-graduate in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling at the Minster Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (UK), Andy McGeeney (UK), YogaCampus (UK), Heart Math (UK), Philip Permutt (UK) and Capel Manor, Regents Park. I will be forever indebted to the incredible Uma Tilmsore Tuli, Nurlipta Tuli and Ben Wollf of the Yoga Nidra Network and BreathForLife who enabled me to bring together many of the techniques I had been using over the years and in particular during my recovery from a brain injury, with the neuroscience to back up every claim.

I have been lucky enough to work and practice in a variety of settings, including working with children, addicts in recovery (both in London and Cape Town), destitute women and children, the elderly, in community settings, those with adaptive needs and on private retreats. My interests lie in neuroscience and breath and using what nature gave us to hack our bodies and minds, the power of nature and connectedness, living with unseen disabilities and chronic pain and also exploring death and living whilst dying – bringing death to the mainstream and conscious living of how we choose to live before we die.

In my spare time I can be found performing improvisation, going off-map on hikes, exploring the sea by kayak, volunteer gardener in Regents Park, talking to plants and animals and learning the piano.