Hatha, Iyengar, Restorative Yoga

Yoga for Back Pain, Yoga for Chronic Pain, Yoga for Anxiety, Yoga for Arthritis, Yoga for Depression, Yoga for Mental Health, Yoga Therapy, Yoga Therapy for Fibromyalgia

A yoga practitioner since discovering my first class at University of Toronto in 1985, my earliest influences were in the Sivananda and Iyengar schools. Vanda Scaravelli's book Awakening the Spine which led me to work with Esther Myers and Monica Voss in Toronto, and a wonderful student of Mary Stewart (London) called Danielle Hebras, who was living in Brussels in the early 1990s.

I began teaching yoga in 1998, bolstered by my first teacher training in Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga with Derek Ireland in Goa, India, in 1997. Unhappy with the way people - including myself - were pushing and injuring themselves in the Ashtanga Vinyasa system, I quickly turned back to the Scaravelli approach as well as Viniyoga with Claude Marechal and Frans Moors in Belgium, and radically changed the way I taught yoga.

I have worked with Iyengar teachers such as Gita Iyengar (Pune), and Rudra Gaura (Rishikesh), as well as local teachers in Brussels.

I qualified as a yoga therapist with the Yoga Biomedical Trust in London (now organised through Yoga Campus) and with Mukunda Stiles, both in 2007. I have studied Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy with David Frawley (online and in Rishikesh, India), A.G. Mohan (in the Netherlands) and Vasant Lad (online and in the UK).

I teach mindfulness courses throughout the year, modeled on MBSR but in the compassion-based spirit and tradition of my longtime teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh.