About Me

I qualified to teach the 8 week Mindfulness Based Living Course (MBLC) in January 2018, and since qualified to teach the 8 week MBLC-Young Adults and the 8 week Compassion Based Living Course (CBLC) with the Mindfulness Association. I am also trained to teach the Zenways 8 week Practical Zen for Health & Wellbeing course and the 8 week Practical Zen for Insight and Grounding course; Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for patients with cancer (MBCT-cancer); and various courses from the Mindfulness is Schools Programme (MiSP) including .breathe, .be and .b2. I have undertaken trauma-informed teaching programmes and neurodiversity-informed teaching programmes with Sue Hutton and Dr Tamara Russell. I am also a qualified hatha vinyasa Yoga teacher certified through Yoga Alliance (200 hours), with additional training (60 hours) to teach the 10 week Yoga in Healthcare Alliance "Yoga4Health" course. I have completed levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Mindfulness Associations training programmes in mindfulness, compassion, insight, and wisdom. I have co-delivered weekend retreats with senior teachers from the Mindfulness Association at Samye Ling Buddhist centre in Scotland and am a member of the Mindfulness Association's 'daily connect' team, leading daily practices for the general public and our members. I also run a monthly mindfulness practice sessions for people with a neurodiversity  and specific neurodiversity-informed teacher training programmes on behalf of the Mindfulness Association. I teach in general public, charity and workplace settings, both face to face an online as required, in groups or one-to-one. I run courses, drop-in sessions, short retreats and introductory sessions. Please get in touch for any further information.