The women's breathwork and menstruality coach combining menstrual cycle and breath awareness
I’m here to guide you toward a deeper connection with your breath and your menstrual cycle. My work blends ancient pranayama practices, modern breathing science, and menstrual cycle awareness, sitting beautifully between science and soul.
My journey
Imagine a household where a young girl is struggling with asthma as she goes through puberty, just as her mother experiences severe breathing challenges during perimenopause. That was my house back in the late 90s, early 00s.
But there’s another part of this story that starts even earlier. I got my first period when I was ten years old. And from the beginning it was tough. Doctors put me on the contraceptive pill early on, which never really worked, but I stayed on it until I was thirty. Twenty years of not knowing what my menstrual cycle actually was. Just trying to fix something I didn’t understand, hating my period, and having no idea what each phase was trying to tell me.
I always wonder how things would have been different if I knew then what I know now.
Fast forward to 2020 (yep, I am one of the ones who discovered their purpose as the world locked down) and I started my Yoga Foundation qualification. I thought I’d become a yoga teacher after practising it since my years studying performing arts at university. Turns out that was just the start of falling down the rabbit hole towards women’s breathwork and menstruality coaching. Pranayama teacher training followed and a breathwork workshop with ‘The Breath Guy’ sparked my interest in functional breathing practices.
This is where it gets interesting. During a breathing techniques qualification we touched briefly, and I mean briefly, on female breathing. Nobody had ever told me that women breathe differently before that point, and this fuelled a fire within me to find out more. I got to work researching women’s breathing from every source I could. I was amazed to discover that both my asthma during puberty and my mum’s breathing challenges throughout perimenopause were linked to our hormones and our menstrual cycles.
Then came the piece that brought everything together. I found menstrual cycle awareness. For the first time I began to connect to my cycle rather than trying to fix or fight it. To listen. To understand it as a source of wisdom rather than something to manage. I trained as a Menstruality Mentor with the Red School, deepening my understanding of the inner seasons framework. I quickly pieced together how breathwork can support women through every phase of their menstrual cycle. Suddenly everything clicked. The breath. The cycle. The body. The wisdom that had been there all along, waiting to be listened to. I’ve been here ever since, supporting women to breathe well, reconnect with their menstrual cycle, reduce anxiety, sleep better, and show up more fully in their lives.
Teenage me is the reason I do this work. I do this to support her every day. And I do this to give you the wisdom that has been there all along. Your menstrual cycle is unique, beautiful, and holds so much for you. Embracing your whole self hits differently. And you deserve that magic.
My qualifications
Drawing from the wisdom of the incredible teachers I’ve had the privilege of learning from, I’ve created a unique approach that helps you breathe with ease and connect to your menstrual cycle using your breath as the medicine. My qualifications include:
- Pranayama and Foundations of Mantra Teacher Training (Mindflowyoga)
- Menstruality Mentor (The Red School)
- Certfied Buteyko Breathing Instructor (Buteyko Clinic International)
- Foundation in Yoga (British Wheel Yoga)
- BA Hons Performing Arts (London Metropolitan)
1:1 Breathwork Coaching
The Friendly Breathing Programme
Corporate wellness
Corporate Breathwork Workshops
Workshops
Online and In-Person Breathwork Classes
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