About Me
Hi, I'm Emma and I am a qualified & experienced yoga teacher, Reiki Master and certified personal trainer. I am also a mum to two incredible young adults.
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I began my working life as a freelance translator and proof-reader and then life took me on a different path in my 30s when I felt the calling to teach yoga and help others. ​I discovered yoga in my mid-teens but started practising more consistently in my twenties. After attending an inspirational yoga retreat in 2012 when my children were young, I realised that yoga was a way to find peace inside despite the chaos of everyday life. I went on to complete a foundation course in yoga studies after which I undertook my initial 200-hour yoga teacher training.
The highlight of my yoga journey thus far has definitely been my stay at a Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, South India. With every day devoted to meditation, chanting, yoga practice and study, it was a truly immersive and authentic experience which reinforced both my love of yoga and my understanding of yoga as not just a physical practice, but a way of living.
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Since qualifying to teach yoga in 2013, my journey has continued to take me in a number of varied wellness directions. I continued to delve deeper into my yoga studies with various further trainings, including qualifying to teach pregnancy and post-natal yoga as well as yoga to children and parent and baby yoga. I also qualified as an Usui Reiki Master-Teacher in 2016 which was the start of my exploration of healing, continuing to undertake training in Angelic Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique and Indian Head Massage. In addition, I explored the power of sound as a mechanism for healing and deep relaxation and trained as a Gong and Sound Practitioner as well as having undertaken training in Reiki Drum Technique and an exploration of singing bowls.
I have continued to explore a number of wellbeing modalities which include Life and Mindset Coaching, qualifying as a Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer, and I am also in the final months of a four-year training course to become an Therapeutic Counsellor (Integrative approach), currently working with clients on a counselling placement with North Kent Mind in Dartford. ​
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My hope is that from somewhere within my varied toolkit of fitness and wellness modalities, there is a way that I can help anyone who feels drawn to connect with me. Please click here for more details about my qualifications and for information about any of the above offerings, please see my Services page.
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Om Shanti.