You want a practice that leaves room for curiosity, questions, and the human being actually doing it.
You don't believe there is a "right" way to practice yoga.
YOGA TEACHER • TEACHER TRAINER • SOMATIC EDUCATOR
Somewhere along the way, we started measuring progress in yoga by what we could do. The deeper backbend. The handstand. The longer meditation. The more complicated sequence.
After 17+ years of teaching yoga and training teachers, those are rarely the things I find most interesting.
I care about whether you can pay attention to what’s happening in your body. Whether you can recognize when something isn’t working and give yourself another option. Whether the philosophy you study begins to influence how you live. Whether your practice can change as you change.
And if you teach, I care far more about your ability to see and support the people in front of you than whether you can demonstrate the most impressive pose in the room.
There are a lot of ways to deepen a yoga practice. I want to help you discover yours.
That’s why I’ve built my work around helping people deepen their relationship with yoga.
I didn’t always practice or teach this way.
For a long time, I was very good at pushing. I worked hard, travelled constantly, said yes to more, and expected my body to keep up.
At 28, I underwent surgery to remove a football-sized tumour from my abdomen. What was expected to be relatively straightforward became life-threatening when surgeons discovered the tumour had grown through and around organs and wrapped itself around my aortic artery.
Recovery gave me a profound respect for both the vulnerability and resilience of the human body.
But respecting what my body had been through and actually changing my relationship with it were two very different things.
I kept pushing.
It took years of teaching, practicing, training teachers, and living in a changing body for my questions about yoga to change too.
I became less interested in what I could make a body do and more interested in what we could learn by paying attention to it.
That shift changed the way I teach.
Today, I care less about perfect poses and prescribed ways of practicing. I care about curiosity, choice, self-study, and creating space for people to discover what works for the body and person they are today.
Because the longer I teach yoga, the more interested I become in what the practice can teach us about ourselves.
whether they’re practicing it, studying it, or learning to teach it.
Today, I teach from a very different place.
I’m less interested in how a practice looks and much more interested in what happens when we give ourselves room to explore it.
My classes, trainings, and workshops are spaces to move, ask questions, study the teachings, pay attention to your own experience, and discover what works for you.
I work with students who want to deepen their relationship with yoga and teachers who want to become more thoughtful and adaptable in how they teach it.
You don’t need an impressive practice or a particular level of experience to belong here.
Bring your curiosity. We can start there.
You can bring your questions, your curiosity, the parts of yoga you love, and the parts you’re still trying to figure out.
I’m not interested in asking you to fit yourself into a particular version of what a yoga student or teacher looks like. I want to create space for exploration, conversation, and the sometimes messy process of learning.
I’ll bring my experience, knowledge, and perspective. You bring your own lived experience.
Somewhere in that exchange is where the interesting work happens.
There’s room for all of you here.
At the heart of it?
A feature where I explore how boundaries, somatics, and nervous-system awareness form the foundation of a sustainable teaching and business life.
The Five Things You Need to Create a Highly Successful Career in Wellness (Authority Magazine)
In this piece, I share my top 3 yoga for sleep practices to create a restful bedtime routine, so you can allow your body to restore.
The Three Things You Should Do Before Bed
(Fit & Well Guest Feature)
In this piece, I highlight some of my favourite chair yoga poses to improve posture and mobility, even if you can't sit on the floor.
Too stiff for floor-based yoga?
(Fit & Well Guest Feature)
A podcast conversation on Yoga "Beyond the Mat", We explore how the true practice of yoga begins long after class ends.
Yoga Beyond the Mat: A Conversation on
The Lotus Lounge Podcast
Curious what it's like to work with me? Take a peek (or listen)
Maybe you want to deepen your own practice.
For yoga students
Maybe you’re curious about yoga beyond the poses. Or maybe you’re already teaching and want more space to learn, question, and grow.
Wherever you’re starting from, there’s a way to explore from here.
There’s always more to discover.
For yoga training
For tips and updates follow me on Insta @reaumealison