Lea-Ann

As a teenager my life led me into a self-healing world. I was born with a deformity and have had help from the medical profession all my life. I experienced trauma from a young age, born with eczema and asthma, this led to bulling through being different. As I grew, I realised that there is only so much other people can do for you. You have to find the strength to implement your own healing.

So I started to study, first into beauty therapy, aromatherapy and aerobics teaching. This started my study of the physical body and nutrition. I soon realized aerobics was to harsh on my unstable feet and I was just hurting an already hurt body. After many years working in the beauty industry the use of the different products was not for me.

I took my knowledge from the industry and became a lecturer at Somerset College of Arts and Technology for 7 years. Leaving there to continue my healing work and teaching yoga full time.

I moved my study to complimentary treatments. I have studied with many people over the years they have shared their skills with me so that I can implement them to continue my self-healing and sharing my knowledge with other.

Our learning is life long and I understand the hard work when you are in pain to do physical movement to change the way we feel about ourselves. It is so necessary to learn to love the injuries and take a positive focus that you can invite freedom into the place of injury and not hold on to the anger and hate.

As we live our lives and age the different stresses take their toll. Sometimes I have felt that I have hit a brick wall and cannot see past it. I know now that this is a moment to sit back and breath and then let the answer come when ready. Not to try and push through with mental effort.

I have learnt to be kind and mindful, through movement and mental chatter, invoke positive mantras. I understand if you cannot reach your toes or cannot possibly give up your favourite food. It is with adding in the good things slowly that will make changes for life. Once those first little add ins have become your new habitual behaviour then we can add in some more. We need to work with our food and mantras to free the mind our physical practice to free the body and our breath and mediation to free our soul. All my training and practice has taught me we need to work in all these direction as this then gives us respect for life we have live. Mother earth has provided everything we need. So, slowing down and listening is the key.

It is with love and compassion towards oneself that we can free up the stiffness whether it be mental or physical.

I have worked with many different people with many different problems over the years. The most important thing to learn is that you are the one who has to put in the effort. It is your journey and nothing will change unless you do the practice. That practice will always be to first notice, once you have noticed then you can make change.

I would love to help you make the change, weather it is on a one-to-one basis or in a class or a workshop.

• British Wheel of Yoga
• Post Graduate in Teacher Training: Plymouth University
• Usui Reiki: First and Second Degree plus Master Healer
• Reflexology: Level 3 Diploma
• Electrology: Diploma with Credit
• Physiatrics: Diploma
• Aromatherapy: Diploma
• Nutritian: Nutrition the natural therapists approach: Diploma with Distinction
• Yoga Therapy