Your guide
Meet Indi
As a Yoga teacher Indi works with clients individually and in groups, utilising her multi style Yoga Teacher training, Bachelors in Psychology and training in compassionate inquiry.
Her practice and teaching style stem from the ‘teacher within’ philosophy; the idea that an innate wisdom within us already has the answers.
This philosophy is reflected in Indi’s teaching style. She focuses on functionality over aesthetics, offers very little hands-on adjustment, provides generous opportunities for intuitive movement and encourages use of the mantra: ‘The practice is how it feels, not how it looks’.
Additionally, she is a dedicated student of the Gene Keys, Neuroscience, the Wise Woman way, Vipassana meditation and Menstruality as coined by Jane Catherine Severn.
A note from Indi
In every class I strongly believe that I may be your guide, offering gentle invitations and suggestions, but your body is the ultimate teacher.
I think we live in a society that promotes outsourcing our wisdom, that promotes a detachment from our own bodies, and so my classes are based on building and tending to the relationship to self.
I deeply trust your own ability to choose poses that feel good for you and your body and let go of poses that don’t. It is in these moments that we foster compassionate inquiry, it is here that our movement becomes a Yoga practice, a celebration of our bodies.
My own journey into Yoga
I can only talk about this having been entrenched in moving as a way to punish my body, as a way to be smaller, not only physically but also quite literally, a need to take up less space.
When I found Yoga I’d like to say I fell in love, but if I told you this I’d be lying, so I’ll tell you the truth…
Read the rest of my story below
“The body is your only home in the universe. It is your house of belonging here in this world. It is a very sacred temple. To spend time in silence before the mystery of the body brings you towards wisdom and holiness.”
My story
I can only talk about this having been entrenched in moving as a way to punish my body, as a way to be smaller, not only physically but also quite literally, a need to take up less space.
When I found Yoga I’d like to say I fell in love, but if I told you this I’d be lying, so I’ll tell you the truth …
What I’ve now discovered is a Yoga mat acts as a mirror, reflecting anything that needs to be looked at. What was mirrored back to me as a teenager was anger and a deep frustration. This translated into a Yoga practice that felt competitive, a practice that was less about travelling inwards and more about performance, looking at the person on the mat next to you and thinking ‘I should be more like them’ and fuelled by the days of ‘Ideal Yoga bodies’ on Instagram and a language in the Yoga world that promoted hierarchy.
I was just about ready to give up, in fact I did, several times, yo yoing between different movement practices.
Until I came across a teacher who encouraged me to view Asana (posture or movement) as a moving meditation.
I realised that the practice wasn’t meant to be whether I could get my toes behind my head, hold a headstand or pop into the splits, it was whether I could control the Chitti Vittri (monkey mind) long enough to access deeper stillness.
Asana, then became a transformational practice, and was a gateway into something much bigger.
I started to notice how good I felt when I stepped off the mat and how I could take what I’d learned into my everyday life:
The ability to sit in discomfort in Yin Yoga started my training in the realisation of impermanence, maintaining a steady rhythmic breath during Vinyasa allowed me to find ‘the stillness in the turning of the storm’ and Gentle Yoga taught me to release, to relax, to surrender.
Like many, I came to the practice through Asana but..
‘‘Yoga is like a big house with multiple rooms, we have entered the house of Yoga through the doorway of Asana. But the doorway is not the house. Come in. Come home’’ - Prasad Rangnekar
Educational & therapeutic training
Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from The University of Sheffield
Yoga Teacher Training (200 hours), Yoga Alliance accredited, Bodsphere
Yin Yoga Teacher Training (60 hours), Yoga Alliance accredited, Bodsphere
Kids Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Alliance accredited, YACEP (in progress)
Active Listening and Effective Communication for Crisis Intervention Course
Compassionate Inquiry and Effective Communication Course
10-Day Vipassana Meditation Course
The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma, Attachment And Neuroscience training, Presented by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Please feel free to get in touch.
indi@indiflowcollective.com
+44 7837 541949