Practice
With Me
Practice has become one of the great teachers of my life.
In a culture that constantly pulls at our attention, asks us to move faster, and rewards productivity over presence, it is easy to lose touch with the body's natural rhythms. Many of us long to feel more rested, more vital and more at ease, yet these qualities rarely return on their own. They are cultivated through the way we live and the practices we return to each day.
For me, practice is about taking responsibility for the life I want to live. Not from a place of self-improvement or striving, but from a willingness to participate in my own wellbeing. Through repeated, gentle attention we begin to strengthen what has become depleted, soften what has become rigid, restore vitality, clear what no longer serves, and deepen our relationship with the body's innate intelligence.
Awareness isn't something we think our way into—it grows through direct engagement with the body and breath.
For more than twenty-five years, I have been following a quiet thread through my life. It has taken me across traditions, teachers and countries, not in search of answers, but drawn by a persistent sense that there is a deeper way of being human than the one our culture so often invites.
Along the way, I have spent hundreds of hours in silent meditation retreats, thousands of hours on the yoga mat, and immersed myself in the study and practice of Buddhism, Daoism, Chinese medicine and other contemplative traditions. I have sought out teachers from near and far, practised wholeheartedly, questioned what I was learning, let some paths go, and returned again to those that continued to deepen my understanding.
What has remained constant is not a commitment to any one tradition, but a devotion to direct experience. To discovering, through practice, what brings us closer to truth, what restores our relationship with ourselves and with life, and what allows us to participate more fully in the mystery of being human.
Qigong
Qigong is the newest of my long-term practices, yet it has become the one that continues to surprise me the most.
What draws me to Qigong is the extraordinary depth and refinement of the practice. Beneath its gentle movements lies thousands of years of careful observation of nature, the human body and the patterns that sustain vitality. It is both beautifully simple to practise and endlessly nuanced to explore.
Rather than asking the body to conform to our expectations, Qigong invites us to become curious about its own intelligence. We learn to listen before we direct, to work with its natural rhythms rather than overriding them, and to cultivate the conditions in which vitality can naturally flourish.
For me, Qigong is an ongoing study. The more I practise, the more it reveals.
Yoga
My meditation practice was shaped through more than a decade of dedicated Zen training, where I came to appreciate the quiet discipline of simply returning, again and again, to this moment.
That foundation continues to inform the way I practise today. Increasingly, my meditation has been enriched by Qigong and Daoist philosophy, expanding my interest in the cultivation of energy, embodied awareness and the simplicity of being fully present.
Meditation remains a quiet daily practice that steadies and nourishes my own life. It is this lived experience that I bring to my classes and retreats, inviting others into a practice that is simple, accessible and able to gently support the way we meet each day.
Meditation
Yoga was one of my earliest and most enduring teachers. Over many years of practice, it fundamentally changed the way I understood the body—not simply as something to strengthen or stretch, but as a place of awareness, relationship and inquiry.
While my work has continued to evolve, yoga remains woven through everything I offer. Its influence can be felt in the way I move, teach and understand embodied practice, quietly reminding me that depth is found not in doing more, but in paying closer attention.
Practice With Me
My regular classes are currently on pause, but they’ll be returning soon — both in person and online. I’ll also be teaching on the various retreats I run throughout the year, where these practices are woven into the rhythm of each day.
If you’d like to be notified when new classes begin, or to learn more about upcoming retreats, you can enquire here.