A bit about me…..

Hello it’s me Lucy P. I live in Chorlton Manchester, with my 2 children, dog & 2 tortoises. I have a raging passion for house music and disco and am currently undertaking the 2 year training to become a yoga therapist. I practiced yoga on and off since my early twenties but I never really stuck with it. Trying to follow an instructional video or DVD (yes I am that old, born 1980) I was never sure I was doing it right. Went to a few classes in a few gyms but it was super cliquey or the teacher was intimidating or I found it too slow. Had a crack at pregnancy yoga with child one but we had to touch each other. Not my vibe. I do not want to stroke the legs of a person I don’t know  or hold hands & sway while gazing into a strangers eyes. Not when I’m sober anyway…..

Then I found Vinyasa yoga. It was really fast paced, music with a beat, a welcoming effusively friendly teacher and people had a bit of a laugh during the class. Immediately loved it. Couldn’t keep up, absolutely no idea what I was doing it, but I loved it. And at first it was just exercise, a hard workout that made me sweat. Didn’t mind the lying down bit at the end because I was tired by then, couldn’t relax during it, mind would still be racing thinking about what I had to do later. The idea that there was a mind body spirit connection was an abstract concept to me but because I’d worked hard I was happy to have a lie down. AND THEN…. I started crying in the lying down bit at the end and I thought “huh, something a bit more to this than just exercise isn’t there?” and that led me on the journey to the point I’m at now.

Prior to training as a Yoga Teacher I was a mental health social worker and Approved Mental Health Professional. So I am big on the mental health aspect of yoga and I am interested in having mental health as the primary focus of my yoga therapy work. Training to be a yoga teacher appealed to me not just for the intention of sharing these benefits with others but because much like working in mental health no two people you have the privilege of encountering, of working with will be the same, or have the same experience which means I keep learning. I always need to be learning and with yoga, the history and philosophy is so expansive, the people I meet will all be unique, I’m never going to know it all. Not in this lifetime anyway!