From Health Systems to Teaching Yoga

Before teaching yoga, most of my working life was spent in health care and public systems.

I trained and worked as a nurse, including time in remote parts of Australia where health care often operates with very limited resources. Later my career moved into health policy and project work, working across large systems that support communities in different ways.

Those experiences taught me a lot about how complex human life really is.

Health is never just about the body. It’s connected to stress, relationships, work, community, and the broader systems people live within. I saw how much pressure many people carry — both personally and professionally — and how difficult it can be to find space to pause.

Throughout those years I continued practising yoga quietly alongside my work.

It became something steady in the background of a busy career. A place where I could step out of the analytical world for a while and reconnect with the body and breath.

Eventually I decided to deepen that practice by training as a yoga teacher.

What I offer now is shaped by both sides of that experience — years working in complex health environments, and decades exploring the quieter practices of yoga and meditation.

For me, these practices are not about perfection or performance.

They’re about supporting people to reconnect with themselves in a simple, grounded way.