I am a qualified coach (ILM Level 5), and Dru Yoga & Meditation teacher.

My focus is on supporting people to feel well in body, mind and soul, so they can fully give their gifts and passions to friends, family, work, their communities, and the planet we share.  I am guided by the principle that 'you cannot pour from an empty cup', and believe we all need to nourish ourselves and our own inner peace  in order to help anyone, or anything, else.

I have always had an active interest in 'saving the planet', and solving society's problems.  Coming of age in the 1980s, the global environmental campaigns for rainforests, endangered animals and global warming got under my skin.  By the mid 2000s, I was studying the impact of large organisations on the environment and trying to implement environmental policy and green behaviours in the NHS, until I got a PhD to help me understand why this was all so difficult.  I learnt so much - that I couldn't single-handedly put things right, that humans won't be told what to do, and that if I carried on trying to do this, I was on the road to burnout, frustration, and a whole load of physical and mental health issues.  I had to find another way.  For 10 years, I went to Dru yoga classes, and these slowly and surely helped me release a lifetime of tension in body and mind, and focus on life's beauty not its problems.  I gained strength, energy, learned to sleep well, and felt less emotionally wobbly, even as the World's problems raged on. I qualified to teach yoga and meditation, so I could share these powerful, nurturing practices with others. 

Yoga and meditation have helped me to stay well enough to remain working in NHS research - not on environmental policy, but on how services are run and what staff need to give the best to their patients. Recognising the enormous prevalence of burnout and poor health amongst NHS staff as they give their all to a service under increasing pressure,  I qualified as a coach so I could listen, and help people cope in ways that support their own wellbeing, and in turn their ability to support others.

I find coaching, yoga and meditation work well as individual techniques, but are also complementary, and I use them each to inform the others.  Some people I work with want to access just one of these offerings, and some all three. 

I have experience offering these techniques to adults of all ages, from the NHS, academia and environmental educators, as well as individuals living and working in their communities.  What everyone I work with has in common is a deep desire to bring good into the World, and a recognition that they have to look after themselves in order to do this.