ABOUT

My work is influenced and inspired by my experience in management, embodied practices, and creative work. I support women in leadership roles navigating transition, and those seeking everyday wellbeing for greater emotional and physical balance in their lives.

I'm Tamsin Jardinier - coach, teacher, potter, and creative, working primarily online from Southwest France...

What I've Learned

Real change comes from working with both mind and body. You can’t think your way into a new life, you have to change your energy, calm your nervous system, and create the internal conditions for something different to emerge.

I teach Yoga, Ayurvedic practices, and coaching, each supporting the others. Yoga and Ayurveda help settle your system and reconnect you to intuition. Coaching provides clarity and vision to move forward. Together, they create the quiet space needed for transformation to manifest, helping you make decisions from a place of trust and self-knowledge rather than an imposed ideal.

My Offering

  • Coaching for women in creative leadership navigating career transitions

  • Daily Online Yoga for grounding and focus

  • Ayurvedic Food Courses for preventative health and emotional balance

  • Slipware Pottery, my personal creative practice

How I Came to This Work

I began in ceramics at Brighton University and spent seven years making and teaching pottery, before moving into luxury retail leadership. That experience taught me how alignment, energy, and the right people in the right roles make everything work, insights I now bring to helping women find alignment in their own work.

In 2008, when my mother died, everything changed. I left my career, followed the path yoga was opening, and moved to the house she had bought in Southwest France. I restored it, opened Little French Retreat, and gradually built a space that supported me and offered others a place to reconnect. For twelve years, I ran the retreat, first in person, then online. Over time, the focus shifted from the location to the practice itself.

In 2022, I returned to clay after twenty years away. I work in slipware; traditional terracotta decorated with liquid clay, where every mark is visible. The methodical, steady process, combined with the way slipware allows for surprises, mirrors my coaching work: both require patience and a willingness to let what is true emerge without forcing it.

Living the Questions

I chose a way of life that gave me the possibility to live yogic teachings day to day. I was drawn by the need for quiet, simplicity, and being close to nature. People often say I live the dream, and in many ways I do, but the choice has been real, with uncertainty and questioning, both challenging and exhilarating. There were times I wanted to escape, but my practice provided the inner strength and faith to continue.

Living with less noise gradually revealed things I might have missed: how the mind fills space, how patterns repeat, how much of our experience is shaped internally. Over time, this has informed how I understand and share yoga, as a way of meeting life with acceptance and compassion.