Trauma Informed Restorative Yoga

You can contact me by phone (+33) 07 57 09 88 69 or e-mail me by clicking here to book an initial consultation.

Group classes Friday at 18-19.45 in Beaurivage: gentle Hatha or flow yoga followed by a deeply restorative yoga practice with props and closing with Yoga Nidra. Please contact me to sign up for 2023/24.

Restorative Yoga.

Restorative Yoga works with supporting the body into a deep state of relaxation and comfort – and the mind follows, resting in the body’s deep settled stillness and relaxation. Traditional poses are adapted and supported through the use of props such as bolsters, blankets and blocks to facilitate deeply supportive and regenerative postures, which are held for typically much longer periods of time than in hatha or vinyasa classes.  

Restorative yoga, because of its gentle, slow and mindful nature works with each practitioner and their individual limits and is accessible and beneficial for all ages, all bodies, all levels of health and athleticism, flexibility and strength. It is a great balance for more yang based practices (such as Hatha and Vinyassa yoga, running and team and individual sports), but also a wonderful practice in its own right; proven to support health, reduce anxiety, pain and depression, deepen sleep, strengthen the immune system, support healing and create more emotional stability and wellbeing. Support, receiving the support, and surrendering into the experience – into peace, comfort, defocusing the mind from its typical narrow focus and fixations – attempts to fix, change and control  – and reconnecting with the Ocean of life, of yourself! as you are, is the foundation of the practice. 

Individual Sessions

Individual sessions work to develop your yoga asana practice and also to support you in the yoga of living – connecting with practices and principles that support your wellbeing and deepest intention for your life. This could mean considering many things including meditation and pranayama, constructive rather than destructive and self defeating thought and communication, to involvement in causes close to your heart, creating a more nourishing daily routine, addressing dietary issues and eating disorders or reducing stress through guided visualisation and embodied practices.

Your journey is a personal one, and we each need medicine based on our history, constitution and goals – what we can receive and use, essentially. I can help you to develop a personal practice that works for you and continues to evolve as you do. 

Group Classes

I hold group classes online and in person, integrating self-compassion, nervous system regulation and meditation practices with gentle and restorative yoga. I also offer themed groups for companies, treatment centres and individual local groups; including:

On going group class is held Friday evenings in Biarritz and costs 12 euros per class when you sign up for the term.

Yoga means union, to yoke together – the conscious with the unconscious; awareness with matter(body); the mind, body and spirit with the Divine; the individual with the world. While this refers to a certain state of consciousness or experience, it is also a method to help one reach that goal. The circular truth throughout is that in seeking we engage individual will, and that ultimately all methods must be dropped to find – or be – what we seek.  Yoga is one of the many methods of balancing mind, body and spirit and attuning to Truth, and though commonly thought of in the West as a physical practice of stretching and strength based activities, it is an all encompassing path and way of life that involves far more than physical movement!

Whilst there are a variety of forms of yoga asana – from Restorative and Yin Yoga, to Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Forest and ++ I practice and teach yoga as a system of living. As a teacher of asana, I have moved from mainly teaching Hatha Yoga into teaching very gentle yoga; working to calm and soothe mind and body and nourish the heart and integrating trauma informed therapeutic nervous system and embodiment based practices from my work as a Somatic Psychotherapist.

I integrate yoga philosophy in my classes and also offer groups more geared towards the understanding and application of yoga philosophy.

I teach online and in person : one to one’s, groups and theme specific groups such as yoga for trauma; yoga for immunity; yoga for women, yoga and addiction recovery for organisations.

Yoga classes are held through the week in Beaurivage, Biarritz. Please contact me for an up to date schedule or to organise a private one to one or group class….by phone (+33) 07 57 09 88 69 or e-mail me by clicking here.