Therapy and Yoga in Carmarthenshire
I teach online yoga for all abilities, from complete beginners to experienced practitioners. My public group yoga class is online on a Thursday evening and I also teach one to one yoga, both online and in my woodland cabin near Whitland. I am a qualified therapist, offering trauma therapy, counselling and psychotherapy, both online and face to face.
My approach emphasises mindfulness and body awareness to help release habitual tension in the body/mind. By emphasising the importance of sensing the body (interoception) and its movement in space (proprioception), we move away from a fixation on achieving specific, predetermined shapes to a practise that is nourishing and can bring insight into our individual ways of being in the world. In 2018, I was given yoga elder status by the Independent Yoga Network. This title is given to yoga teachers with over ten years and 5,000 hours teaching experience, so you can expect high quality teaching and a solid knowledge base.
I'm fascinated by the healing potential of yoga, through both the movement and breathing practices of hatha yoga and the sound and mantra practices of bhakti and mantra yoga. I encourage an intuitive approach to movement and voice work and advocate the integration of mindfulness into daily life.
Since 2007, I've taught varied group yoga classes, private one to one sessions and classes for specialist groups, including mental health and drug and alcohol service users, female asylum seekers and premiership football players. My diverse teaching experience, along with 2016 training in trauma-sensitive yoga, has helped me develop a trauma-informed approach and I have a Masters Degree in Psychotherapeutic Practice. You can find more information about my trauma-informed yoga and psychotherapy work here. Please visit https://www.truenature.wales/ for information about my counselling and psychotherapy work. Please use the contact page to get in touch with me.
"I just want to say how much we both enjoy your classes. We often work in stressful situations and take so much strength from your classes on a day to day basis, using your breathing techniques to help us through. Thank you for teaching us this incredible life skill, we appreciate your classes so much." Lissa and Bryan, Bishopston
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Experience and Qualifications
I've been practicing yoga and meditation since my twenties and began teaching in early 2007. I qualified as a teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga, completing the 500 hour Teaching Diploma over a 3 year period. I relocated from Liverpool to Wales in 2012, living in Gower, south Wales for 5 years, before relocating to Whitland in Carmarthenshire, west Wales in December 2017. My approach is influenced by the mindfulness teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and the yoga of Vanda Scaravelli. If you're interested, here are details of my training and continuing professional development. |
Testimonial
"I cannot recommend Lou highly enough to work with Professional athletes. She has worked with large groups, small groups and individually with all level of players and the feedback has been excellent throughout. She has handled large and challenging groups very well and has enforced discipline in the groups in a gentle way. We have tried several yoga teachers before her and many of them were not able to command the group as Lou can. She has also been very flexible and importantly very reliable. " Danny Donachie, Head of Sports Medicine at Everton Football Club |
