Random stuff  I love......

Sunrises...giggling...purple...travelling...hugs...love hearts...kindness...dancing...the ocean...winter sun...caramel slice & coffee...oh & family and friends, BIG TIME!

“When you realise how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky!” - Buddha

Incredibly lucky to grow up in an outstanding family of love and laughter - but a with a wee challenge too.  I was born with bilateral talipes equinovarus (AKA clubfoot!) and spent many of my first years in plaster casts and undergoing corrective surgeries.

Thankfully, I was able to live a relatively active life for about thirty years, along came more major surgery and dependency on a walking stick and heavy-duty painkillers. I was heading for either a wheelchair or amputation.  Things were grim!

However, I travelled to the US in 2015 and was lucky to be custom fitted with the ExoSym™ prosthesis device. Since then, I’ve been walking pain free! Completing half marathons, yoga teacher training, and a 3 week hike in the Himalayas!  I’m ecstatic and forever grateful to be able to be active with my family and friends.

I would like to help make this device available to more New Zealanders - for more on my ExoSym™ journey Click here

This miraculous device gave me a new lease on life, confidence and the inspiration to take the yoga teaching plunge.  It was a move away from my career of crunching numbers - something I had wanted to do for years, but felt my body was 'not good enough' - how wrong I was and what a journey it has been! Yoga has guided me to a peaceful place and I continue to gain strength and lightness in both mind and body.  

I'm lucky to share this wondrous crazy life with many amazing human beings, but esp my incredibly awesome 14yr old boy Rocco and loving husband Greg of 21 years.  Together, we love to travel - our big adventures keep life interesting, spontaneous, fun, and forever a learning experience.  We try our best not to work too much! And to infuse yogic tools into our life on a daily basis, as we deeply believe this helps to make our time on this planet a more a more calm, happy and peaceful one.