ABOUT

I am a yoga teacher, Ayurvedic practitioner, coach and potter who made a significant life change to follow my heart, leaving a successful corporate career in London to build a life from scratch in rural France.

What I have learned in the fourteen years since is that there is no easy path. But commitment to a path comes naturally when you love what you do and are living in alignment with your deepest passions and purpose.

That understanding is still unfolding and, is what I bring to the women I work with.

Change can arrive as a whisper, a quiet accumulation of signs pointing somewhere new. Or it can arrive as a crisis that makes the choice for you. Mine came as both, realising the course I had been building was not the one I wished to continue on, questioning what was success.

I've always worked intuitively - reading people, tuning into what they need, placing them where their energy flows. I trained as a potter at art school, then spent ten years in retail and bespoke manufacturing. I was headhunted to turn underperforming stores into profit, and I was good at it because I could sense what motivated people and put them in roles where their passion did the work.

By 2008 I was managing Viscount Linley's store in London. When my mother died, I realised I'd spent years using those skills to build other people's businesses instead of my own life.

I left my job and went to India for six weeks, thinking I'd figure everything out. I didn't. But I knew I couldn't go back to that life.

For the next few years I followed my passions - yoga, cooking, and photography - which eventually led me to France. I went there seeking silence, to the house my mother had bought for her retirement dream, to feel her presence, and because I was called to. I moved to France in 2013 and spent the next ten years building Little French Retreat, hosting small residential retreats, leading groups to India and running workshops in the UK teaching yoga and ayurvedic food.

When I first came to France, I had vision but I was forcing how to get there - strategizing every step, pushing, controlling. I was practicing yoga but still wearing my old management hat. Life got easier when I held the vision and trusted the unfolding, creating the space for work to come to me.

When guests relaxed on retreat, I noticed that the real questions came up. Questions about their work, their lives, whether any of it still fit. I'd taken counseling training and my management background meant I could hold those conversations. It felt natural. So I trained in coaching, then Ayurveda, then cognitive behavioral skills. Most of my guests were women in leadership roles. The coaching work became increasingly central to what I was offering.

Now I work with women who are where I was - accomplished but exhausted, questioning whether any of this is actually theirs. I use coaching, yoga, and Ayurvedic principles because this combination of practices provided me with a complete understanding of a balanced, meaningful, and joyful way of life.

My offering

I also make slipware pottery, that you can find HERE.