Get to know me

I stumbled on my first Ashtanga yoga class in Asia in 2006 in Yoga Manila and taken on a deeper practice under the guidance of Alexander Medin in Hong Kong. I initially trained to teach the Sivananda traditions whilst opening up a first-of-it’s-kind yoga studio in my hometown with a business partner. I became sufficiently inspired by the positive effects of my practice as a yoga instructor and my own personal yoga inquisition to undertake my first formal 300hrs yoga teacher's training in India in 2009 at Swami Vivekananda Yoga University. I then expanded my ancient practice modality in Thailand, conducting the Traditional Thai Massage course with extra specialisation in Women’s Healthcare in Chiang Mai, before embarking on the big move to the UK at the end of 2010. When I settled in living in East London, I scoured the city to maintain and practice in the traditional yoga lineage, attended yoga conferences both in the UK & abroad and participated in monthly kirtans at Satyananda Yoga Center and Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center whilst working as a part-time Thai massage therapist and yoga instructor along with a full-time job in finance. Through the years I've been drawn back somehow to Ashtanga in a physical aspect of my practice and have taken on several yoga workshops from Ashtanga luminaries around the world and finally complemented these further with a teacher training program of the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series with David Swenson.

I wholeheartedly acknowledged with great gratitude all my teachers in the past and present, and I continue to search for learning in my favoured areas of interest, to add depth to personal experiences and development for my own internal nourishment and aim to share these with other practitioners. It took me more than a decade to find another dedicated space for practice in a completely strange land.  The shala is open to anyone who is curious and would give yoga a chance to help you in either physically & mentally or physiologically & spiritually. Your body, its your own unique yoga, it's a self-discovery to connectedness by addressing yourself that yoga in itself can be a real time application as a lifestyle in this ultramodern society on health and wellbeing regardless of age, size and physical condition. Namaste.