Inform us a bit about your self…
All of us face challenges in life whether or not it’s the pressures of labor, monetary or relational challenges, physique and hormonal transformations resembling menopause or coping with psychological or bodily sickness, or with loss or grief.
I’ve lived with a persistent pelvic situation for the reason that start of my daughter 13 years in the past and I’ve been on a journey of self discovery in mid-life. I’ve researched, lived and constructed a sturdy set of methods to navigate life with positivity, elevated capability to perform and embrace wellness in physique and thoughts and outlook. I now share my learnings with others.
My background is in artistic arts, though I’ve at all times practiced completely different types of yoga; Yin, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Ashtanga. I knew when the techniques and buildings I operated inside weren’t serving me anymore, that my true path was to pivot and develop into a yoga trainer, to concentrate on this as my central observe and to make use of my previous expertise and data to boost this observe. That is after I arrange the Faculty of Artistic Wellness.
Creativity, educating and studying are in my DNA. By combining my previous experiences and expertise with yoga and breathwork I’ve created a novel enterprise. Disciplines merge, methods of noticing, seeing and understanding ourselves are explored in a holistic sense.
I exploit motion, breathwork and picture and textual content/writing primarily based artistic strategies to look at, course of and create, and I assist others to do the identical. It feels proper, a real calling in my mid-life.
What does a typical day appear like for you?
For the time being I’m placing collectively a brand new on-line providing ‘Breathe Simple for Menopause Mums.’ It’s primarily based on my expertise of menopause, mumming, working and burnout. Burnout can creep up on you. I do know so many ladies who’re below such stress in midlife, juggling careers, parenting, taking care of ailing dad and mom and hitting perimenopause all on the identical time. I need to share the strategies that helped me and share preventative strategies to keep away from burnout. This providing is a brief, straightforward to digest on-line breathwork course to assist ladies develop a each day observe of anchoring, respiratory and studying to self regulate their nervous techniques. There are three each day pranayama video practices to observe if you wake, at lunchtime and earlier than mattress. It’s exhausting to take time and area for self with a number of each day calls for, it’s also exhausting to create new habits so I’m there in a pleasant, useful and bitesized means as a supply of studying, of consolation and of growing new strategies to dwell by.
I educate on-line and in particular person a number of days per week Yin, Restorative and extra dynamic Hatha/ Vinyasa primarily based lessons, I’ve non-public shoppers and a beautiful group of standard ladies who attend every week, ages vary from 12 to 88. I stroll on a regular basis with my two Cockapoos Bennie & Pickle and being in nature on a regular basis is tremendous vital for me. I additionally meet up with different artists and wellness practitioners to plan and ship pop up occasions and experiences. I might also be operating a retreat or volunteering at a neighborhood market backyard referred to as Worthy Earth. It’s also vital for me to be current every day with my household, my daughter, my mum and my accomplice and to chuckle, not take life too critically.
At the moment I went for a sauna and swim in a lake on non-public land in Hampshire at Fallen Willow Sauna (considered one of my collaborators). I’ve not too long ago purchased a rebounder so the day usually begins with a bounce. After I attended the wonderful Aryveda sequence of lessons on this Yoga Issues group I found my Kapha predominant dosha likes to start out the day with bouncing to get all the pieces flowing and to keep away from stagnation and sluggishness.
Mainly I do what feels good and worth issues resembling time, nature, studying and group having stepped away from the grind tradition and feeling like I used to be by no means ‘sufficient’.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to develop into a yoga trainer?
I’ve practiced since my early 20s and I’m now 48. My first ardour and studying was in Iyengar. I actually bought into the precision of it and went a number of instances to India on Yoga and Ayuvedic retreats. I felt an actual pull to develop into a yoga trainer in my mid to late 20s however I used to be rising a vibrant profession in arts and design training and growing my very own design observe. I dabbled with various kinds of yoga through the years, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Restorative and Yin. Yin grew to become an enormous a part of my life in 2018 and over the next two years I’d go to a category with my Mum taught by an incredible trainer Daphne. She battled with most cancers on and off for years and used Yin to assist others with most cancers or caring for others with most cancers. Sadly she handed away a couple of years in the past however her voice and spirit is etched inside me. My Dad was recognized with Mesothelomia (asbestos associated) most cancers and Daphne and her lessons helped us by way of a extremely exhausting time. After Dad died in 2020 I hit burnout and went on a journey of unravelling and of whole recalibration. I labored on rediscovering my pleasure and reprioritising what I wanted, cherished and desired in my life. Yoga was a each day should, alongside dwelling extra in tune with nature and my creativity and creating area in my life for household. A interval of unlearning and relearning occurred and is ongoing. So I retrained as a yoga trainer and right here I’m completely loving what I do and feeling properly and rooted and persevering with my path and fervour of educating however in new methods, methods which can be pertinent to our instances and sharing the instruments and strategies that labored for me. Dwelling authentically and listening to what I would like.
What impressed you to focus on your observe?
Though I skilled below Lucas Rockwood at Yoga Physique (Barcelona), the place the coaching was scientifically pushed, and the fashion was vinyasa primarily based I’ve undertaken additional coaching in Yin, Restorative, Yoga Nidra and additional utilized anatomy & physiology of yoga. I’ve additionally skilled within the Science of Wellbeing (Yale College) and have attended numerous artistic quick programs, an Accelerating Girls’s Enterprise programme by the Faculty of Social Entrepreneurs. Alongside my very own journey of therapeutic with CBT, Trauma and Bereavement counselling. I’ve labored with various therapies resembling CST (Cranio Sacral Remedy) which for me discovered wonderful leads to releasing buried trauma and my womb. I actually take a look at wellness from a holistic perspective. I suppose I’ve recognized issues that I’ve confronted and that society faces at this time, disconnected people, patriarchal techniques born out of capitalism that take away us from being linked, societal expectations, stress, hustle tradition, menopause, mid life disaster, loss, trauma… And I’ve shaped an idea and enterprise that helps folks to heal, to reconnect, to be human, to seek out pleasure,to really feel impressed, to create area, to manage.
Subsequently the specialist Yoga areas I’m actually thinking about and that appear essentially the most related are Yin, Restorative, Nidra but in addition different strategies to course of, to unlearn, to discover, to mirror and to create embrace writing, drawing, printing, narrative exploration utilizing imagery. I’m notably thinking about trans-disciplinary collaboration between artists, musicians, psychologists, therapists, yoga academics. That is what actually excites me, this holistic strategy to wellness. To create new issues, new strategies, new methods of exploring who we’re and what worth we will carry to others and to the world we dwell in. The world wants creativity proper now and it wants therapeutic. That is my calling.
How have you ever seen your observe profit your college students?
I can really feel it and see it. In a category it’s palpable each on-line and in particular person. Individuals carry of their day, their power, their experiences. The lessons I ship enable them to shed, to let go, to create area, to heal and most vital to take heed to their true selves. They shift, there’s a metamorphosis. It’s stunning. I can see it of their posture, their tone, their faces, their eyes. It’s a person and a collective expertise. All of us really feel it. It’s a sure type of alchemy. The Yin is wonderful as a result of I do know have the identical group coming over for over 2 years now. I can see how the observe helps them on a weekly foundation but in addition over the seasons – it’s actually stunning and cyclical. This offers me such pleasure.
I suppose it’s fairly a maternal factor. I’ve taught since I used to be 21 and suggestions from college students was at all times that I impressed them, I made them really feel protected, capable of be susceptible, to share, join, uncover and develop. To seek out their voice not their fashion to be their genuine selves. This can be a present. I’ve solely been educating yoga for two years and I do know that I’m doing the identical as I did in an artwork and design context, I’m bringing all that have with me. I’ve been so fortunate to have such wonderful suggestions which you’ll see on our web site.
To be a very good trainer it’s essential to be humble and to be a very good scholar, to keep away from comparability as a lot as you possibly can in an instagram world and to do what feels proper and to by no means cease studying. I like sharing, laughing, holding, nurturing and creating. That is it. I’m a fuller bodied center aged girl who loves what I do- that is good power and individuals are interested in good power and it spreads, it’s contagious. Come and be part of me!
What’s your favourite quote or life motto?
Honour thy error as a hidden intention.
I need to rethink ‘give up’ as an lively verb.
What’s developing for you in 2025?
Breathe Simple for Menopause Mums – On-line Bitesize Breathwork Course for Girls. Be taught to Self Regulate Your Nervous System and Handle Peri/Menopause Signs. Quick, Manageable 2-5 min Morning, Lunchtime and Night Video Practices, Toolkits and Sensible Data. Lifetime Entry.
Summer time Wellness Retreat at Three Daggers Wiltshire – SCW X Arc Pilates. Expertise Farm to Fork Eating, Yin Yoga with Acupressure, Guided Yoga Nidra, Pilates & Fascial Launch, Breathwork & Nervous System Regulation, Sauna with Optionally available Chilly Water Swim, Time to Learn, Loosen up and Use the Wellness Services. twentieth -Twenty second June 2025.
- Breathwork & Yoga
- On-line Wellness Quick Programs
- On-line & In Particular person Wellness Occasions
- Wellness Retreats
- Artistic Workshops
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Private:
Strolling, wild Swimming and Sauna, Foraging, making time for household & buddies and occurring a retreat for me with Dirish in Spain in November.
Common Restorative Hatha & Yin Yoga Observe for me and rebounding a stunning morning bounce on my new rebounder to spring into every day!
Discover out extra about Susanna:
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