Inform us a bit about your self…
I dwell spherical 20km west of Lisbon in Portugal, and have been a yoga coach since 2001. Sooner than that, I spent a number of years working as a lawyer in an enormous enterprise lawfirm. Pre-pandemic, I lived in London and taught widespread classes at The Life Centre (Notting Hill and Islington), and at Triyoga in Camden.
In 2008, I went once more to highschool to examine at London Faculty’s Faculty of Oriental and African Analysis (SOAS), specialising in historic Indian religions. I obtained my MA in 2010, then launched into evaluation on the Upanisads which led to me receiving a PhD in early 2019. I moreover lectured and supervised dissertations on the SOAS MA course in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation, and taught undergraduate Hinduism at SOAS from 2014 to 2020.
Now, I practice widespread classes and Sanskrit applications dwell on-line. I’ve moreover taught yoga historic previous and philosophy, Sanskrit, and meditation on the Yogacampus yoga coach teaching programme for a number of years, co-teach the Yogacampus meditation coach teaching, and am the yoga philosophy tutor for Yoga Scotland.
My yoga educating shows the varied sorts which I’ve encountered by means of the years. I contemplate my asana mannequin as relaxed, nevertheless fluid, and try to carry classes creatively sequenced, with a watch fastened on their energetic along with bodily outcomes. Prāṇāyāma and meditation are integral parts of my apply and most of my classes embody these along with āsana. A couple of years up to now, I was recognised by the London Evening Regular as a excessive coach of yoga nidrā.
Exterior yoga, I’m somewhat little bit of a foodie, a cricket lover, and a keen traveller.
What does a typical day seem like for you?
I don’t assume there could also be such an element! Nonetheless they perhaps all comprise an extreme period of time in entrance of a computer…
How did your yoga journey begin and what impressed you to turn into a yoga coach?
I was bribed to attend a class at The Life Centre in Notting Hill by my confederate throughout the late Nineties. No matter my preliminary misgivings, with a physique stiff from years of sitting behind a desk and collaborating in sport, I shortly turned an on a regular basis, in class two or thrice per week, and commenced occurring yoga holidays and to yoga workshops. I was fascinated not just by the bodily benefits, however moreover the psychological impression – yoga made me actually really feel so considerably higher in myself the least bit sorts of ranges. I pretty quickly felt deep down that I would practice, so, as soon as I had the prospect of a sabbatical from my job in 2000, I spent various months in India, and as well as went to the USA the place I met such great lecturers as Richard Freeman, Erich Schiffmann, and Shiva Rea. All through that 12 months I moreover took the fast coach teaching course at White Lotus Foundation in California, and realised that I really may practice. After I acquired once more to the UK in 2001, I acquired into educating regularly, initially alongside my day job, and, from 2004, full time, whereas persevering with to teach, primarily with Rod Stryker.
What impressed you to concentrate on your apply?
I’m not optimistic how lots I do specialise! Nonetheless I’ve been keen on historic previous since school days, and have been very drawn by means of the years to studying the difficult historic and philosophical background to yoga. That’s what led me once more to highschool in 2008, and these are the areas I primarily cope with in coach teaching.
How have you ever ever seen yoga revenue your faculty college students?
I really feel that that’s additional for them to say than me. Nonetheless I wish to contemplate an elevated consciousness of themselves and of the world spherical them, along with just some obvious nicely being benefits.
What’s your favorite quote or life motto?
One amongst my lecturers, Richard Freeman, as quickly as talked about ‘The world is a yoga studio.’, and that has caught with me ever since. Yoga is just not just one factor we do on our mat, nevertheless should have an effect on all the of our life.o Tom
What’s arising for you in 2024?
All being correctly, a model new consumption of students on the Yoga Scotland coach teaching course throughout the autumn, my annual yoga weekend in Sussex, additional meditation coach teaching, and some additional time for me, along with a go to to São Tomé e Principe… though I do have an thought for a e-book, which I wish to pitch to a author at some stage.
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