Community has always been important to me, I have always known that it is my responsibility to contribute my skills, energy, knowledge and love to the society I am part of with the aim of contributing to better life for everyone.

I am privileged to be a Regenerative Gardener and Yoga Teacher and student and I have public, private and project based classes. 

As a Yoga teacher my aim is to share the yoga practices that helped me, which I love and to pass on the generosity of my teachers that meant I had access to this ancient wisdom tradition, to people and in places that would not so easily access a yoga studio through geographical, social, economic and/or physical limitations.

My hope is that I can continue to share exploration of self awareness through movement, meditation and mindfulness. That each of us have the chance in life to experience freedom and truth in our body, thoughts and presence in each moment.

A young person, once described me as ‘Jessica, she just floats’ at the time I was thought it was cool to float and was happy to hear this but now days I am not so sure, the shadow of this is disassociation, a numbness that can be confused, as being aloof, laid back, relaxed and careless. 

I love to joke in class, when we arrive at Savasana that this is the bit we come to yoga for. This was true for me once, I went to yoga classes to relax, I enjoyed dropping out of my mind into my body because it came so easily, little did I know.

I've been doing yoga on and off for 20 years, but in 2007 it got serious.

I was learning to handstand and arm balance, I went to regular classes and practiced with the same teachers and people. Without planning this regular practice turned into rehab from a toxic relationship and lifestyle, a season of what I now know to be self sabotage and self destruction.  
As I cleared the numbness from my heart, brain and liver things started to happen: emotional releases and thoughts would come to me during and after class.
It got deeper and fiery, the greater the fire, the clearer the messages. I was starting to boil and clarify the murky waters I had been floating in for so long. This was good, but hard and sometimes hurt as it turned out to be a rocky and turbulent process.

The conditioning I had been living with that included: not speaking up, not saying yes to what I wanted, or no to what I didn't, what I thought, not standing my ground, not being open to the possibility I could do anything I wanted, was evaporating in the heat, in every drop of sweat.

Without this fire in my practice I would not be writing this today. If I am ever unsure of something, I know the place to go is inside, to listen and to act from this truth.  

To me Yoga is magic in the way, it can’t be undone. The listening is meditation, observation of my thoughts and feelings.
So now I teach from this place, in my class you will have creative movement, a safe and challenging ‘workout’. You will hopefully find it relaxing and float away like I still do sometimes, or you might find you start to get a deeper and more connected relationship with the truth at your centre.

I have practiced and studied with teachers that make me feel this in my own body that have a mastery of movement and the human body. Since 2013 I have been training to teach yoga I have studied intensively with Leila Sadeghee since 2008 and in 2014 began my teacher training with her, Bridget Luff and Tara Judelle who I continue to train with in her school Embodied Flow. I am accredited as a Senior Yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance UK. I have studied meditation with Sally Kempton and yoga mythology and Rasa Yoga with Sianna Sherman.

I honour and live in service of the journey that brought me to this path.