About Me
I have over 20 years experience studying and working in healthcare, as both a home carer and as a doctor. I work as an NHS Medical Consultant specialising in Older Persons Medicine in an NHS Acute Hospital on the South Coast.
I firmly believe that western medicine is amazing. It saves countless lives and here in the UK, we are lucky to have a public health system. But in 2017, I began to get a niggle that just wouldn’t leave me alone. That there was something missing in the medicine that I was practising.
It ended up changing the way in which I was living my own life and started me on a path of exploration.
The exploration of what health and healing really means in this post-modernist age.
I first started practising Yoga whilst at secondary school but in 2011, I started formally practicing Satyananda Hatha Yoga. Since then I have gone on to practice Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Yin and Restorative Yoga.
I have completed a 200 hour multi style yoga teacher training and a 200 hour Hatha & Yin yoga teacher training. My personal practice has moved towards nondual Tāntrik Shaivism and a focus on embodiment through movement.
In 2021, I completed a diploma in Ayurvedic Lifestyle and Nutrition and became a Mindfulness and Meditation Facilitator.
Between 2021 and 2024 I trained with the Yoga Therapy Institute working towards an 850 hour diploma to become an IAYT certified Yoga Therapist.
During this time, I spent one year studying under Uma Dinsmore-Tuli at the Yoga Nidra Network, undertaking the Yoni Shakti Well Women Yoga Therapy Training and the Total Yoga Nidra Teacher training.
The Qualification bit
I am registered with the Yoga Alliance and The International Association of Yoga Therapists. I have insurance through Balens.
I hold a BSc, MA and MD. I am a member of the Royal College of Physicians London, as well as a Lifestyle Medicine Physician with the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. You can also find me on the GMC register.