I’m an Actor, Yoga teacher, health coach and very proud cat mam!

I live in a really tiny village at the foot of Eryri called Nantlle with my husband, Gwion and cat, Grant.

I had always wanted to be an actress, for as long as I can remember, constantly pestering my parents to come and watch the latest show I’d created or tape me for an audition I had completely made up. My dream of becoming an actress become a reality when I got a role on a kids TV programme at the age of 14 and when I turned 18, I started auditioning for drama colleges.

I graduated from ALRA (The Academy of Live & Recorded Arts) in 2011.

During my time in TV and following three rigorous years in drama college, I had picked up some programming and beliefs around my weight. I thought in order to succeed, I would need to look a certain way.

I went through years of a vision cycle of starving myself and then binge eating, which of course left me feeling so unworthy, ashamed and totally embarrassed.

It wasn’t long before auditioning and working in front of the camera become so painful, I would do anything and everything to numb how I felt and I did this the only way I knew how, through food and alcohol. I was in this vicious cycle and had no idea how to get myself out of it. I become so uncomfortable in my own skin, I nearly gave up on my career as an actress. It was at this point of desperation I knew something had to change and so I googled and came across Yoga!

I initially tried it because I thought it could help me loose weight and tone up but what it actually offered me was so much more than that…

Yoga helped me to slow down and it was in that slowing down that I found myself again. For the first time I sat and processed some really heavy emotions and gave my body the chance to release them.

I started to reconnect with who I was, what I wanted and how to get it.

Yoga and breath-work helped me to revaluate what was important in my life and how to be compassionate towards myself. A lot of time, we are our own worse critic and Yoga helped me to see that I wasn’t a bad person, that I deserved so much more than how I felt and that, with the help of a mindful practice, I could cultivate confidence and change my life.

I delved deeper and deeper in to my healing, using Yoga as the tool to guide and hold me. It transformed my life so much that I wanted to help others who may be struggling with confidence, direction and habits that aren’t serving them.

Yoga will clear your mind, it will strengthen your body but most importantly it will offer you that sense of self-worth. It will help you to release and let go of limiting beliefs, stress and tension and give you the tools to slow down enough so you can hear yourself think, connect with yourself on a deeper level and cultivate the confidence you may not have had previously.