…first as a student, but it became so much more. Countless classes, workshops, courses, and certifications in a variety of modalities later, I’ve learned about movement and the process of integrating and alchemising the symbiotic relationship our movement has with our mental health.

In 2016, my own movement journey led me open my own studio – incorporating yoga, pilates and functional fitness. Ignite Evolution Fitness was a place of sanctuary + strength. It’s where I flexed my entrepreneurial muscles, and discovered that body awareness is the real flex. It’s where I learned that the hustle is hollow, and your soul knows the way the way home. If you know how to listen…and it starts in your body.

So, when 2019 brought a closing of many chapters of my life (and oh, there were so many), it allowed me to pause. To listen. To start the next chapter on my own terms, which in my case led me to Scotland, now Edinburgh is home.

And through it all, movement has stayed with me in one shape or another (and yes, that includes my body shape).