About
Guided over 1,000 people lovingly.
Author of The Spiritual Teachings of Yoga and contributed to the Psychophysiology of Yoga.
Inspired over 1,000 people.
I am a mother, an author, teacher, speaker, communicator, presenter, thought leader, therapeutic yoga specialist and healer.
I have been been seeking freedom, wisdom, connection, love, and spiritual truth all my life. As a teacher and spiritual guide, I am clearly here to serve others by helping them find their path, cultivate self-love, and find meaning and peace in their life experiences.
My journey has taken me through many years of deep self-enquiry, therapy, meditation, yoga, an understanding of trauma, and faith. I have learned how to stabilise and work with my nervous system to bring a sense of connection and peace in body, mind and soul.
Every painful step on my personal and professional journey has guided me closer and closer to my connection with Spirit, with deep wisdom and commitment to using every challenge as a learning and growth experience. I have a deep desire to see the world and all I meet in it as my teacher wherever that journey takes me.
I have always tried to find the blessing in adversity, and there have been times when I was in so much pain and stripped so bare that I could do nothing other than fully surrender myself naked and raw and open to God. I remember those moments so well, falling to my knees, giving myself up - no more trying to control anything, just surrendering with humility to Grace. The gift was the profound deepening of my relationship with God, my source of energy, and it changed me and really pushed me on my journey towards freedom and joy.
My deep connection with children, my painful childhood, and my very wounded inner child led me to healing children. And it started with yoga as a vehicle of love. Yoga for children at that time was unheard of. As a result of those sessions and a deep passion for working with these beautiful beings, I became the pioneer of children's yoga in the UK, leading the first training programme in children's yoga. From there Special Yoga was born, initially as a studio and charity, and remains a phenomenal organisation whose mission is to reach as many children globally as possible with its practices, training more people with a great deal of love, passion, and commitment to changing the lives of these very special children.
My children, the children I worked with, and my inner child has taken me on a profound journey of self-discovery - they are all our greatest teachers.
What I learned most of all was that I matter, my self love matters, my inner safety, stability and kindness to me matters. And that allows me to create an invisible and magical circle of safety for the child to regulate in, to grow in, to become their best selves in. Every child that I have been blessed to work with - and I have worked with 10s of thousands of children around the world, has taught me something. The ability to listen deeply beyond language, cultivate trust, patience, humility, compassion, empathy, unconditional love, to get out my own way, connection, presence….and so on.
For several decades, I have been a practitioner and teacher of therapeutic yoga, meditation, and breath-work. As a reiki master and active student in Spiritual Science, I weave qi gong and energy medicine into my personal physical and spiritual practice. I am a daily year round sea dipper and finds great nourishment in nature and silence and in deep and joyful connection with others.
My work is also guided by the wisdom and knowledge that I have gained from my studies in the healing arts of Tui na, Indian Head massage, sound healing, energy medicine, crystal healing, reflexology, mindfulness and somatic wisdom.
As a spiritual seeker, I have been initiated into many spiritual traditions and schools, finding wisdom in each one, giving me the freedom to find my unique way.
But most of all, I have journeyed through a traumatic childhood, a life of adventure, travel, joy, emotional pain, and torment, with sensitivity, strength, deep faith, and a strong connection to Spirit and a deep understanding and reverence of the wisdom of our bodies.
Love From Jyoti has been born by and with the guidance of Spirit.