Namaste to you sister!

Born in the beautiful South Africa, raised by a beautiful family, a festival junkie and a social butterfly...life was pretty good. 

BUT I felt there was more.

I left SA after school after refusing to choose a vocation at the tender age of 18.

I ended up in London doing loose jobs before I followed a childhood dream of joining the Army. 

I loved it: I served in Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Falklands. I represented the British Army women's rugby team for 10 years, and reached the rank of Staff Sergeant in 12. 

As a Senior I trained recruits which was demanding but rewarding. I always had a passion for coaching and helping people become better - doing things they didn't think they could. 

Life was good. 

BUT. I felt there was more. 

In 2017 I left the Forces in search of life beyond uniform. Sadly I left with severe (self-diagnosed) anxiety which developed along the military path. The military environment and high-impact sports didn't leave much space for a regulated nervous system.

It was a challenging transition after 13 years of service, I  had little self-help tools, but I had found hot yoga at this point. I had ZERO understanding of what yoga actually was, but it felt good; particularly since it quieted my mind for a bit...30ish minutes a week of being anxiety-free, AND it helped me sleep...it was lush!

I ended up in the corporate jungle in an HR role back in London. I soon realised this life was far from the freedom I thought it would be. I felt a deep sense of miss-alignment, the anxiety sky-rocketed, and I completely lost connection with myself. 

(Worst of all? I wasn't allowed to have the dreads I so desperately wanted and thought I could have in 'civvy street'!) 

Despite the high-end job and accompanying salary, things felt aimless.

As a little cherry on the cake I was a chocaholic; trapped in a guilt-ridden and uncontrollable habit of needing sugar daily...just a little add-on to make me feel shit about myself. 

I resorted to endurance sports - running marathons and doing triathlons to feel a sense of achievement (and to subconsciously justify my sugar intake!). Little did I understand the pressure I was putting myself under - fuelling my own anxiety and dysregulating my nervous system even more with endless pounding of my body. 

Yoga kept me going; albeit only for recovery and a few moments of stillness of the mind each week.

One day, after two years of sitting in an office organising disciplinary meetings and trying to help people who didn't want to help themselves, I looked up from my computer screen and thought 

"Is this it?"

Something in me refused to believe that this was what my life has come to. I just knew I could be better.

The Universe heard my cry (and my refusal to settle) and responded. In 2020, I found an opportunity to start my own online marketing business. I had high hopes that becoming my own boss would give me the freedom I so yearned for, so I threw EVERYTHING into this business:

I quit my HR job, isolated myself in my holiday home on the Isle of Wight to focus whilst working part-time as a carer at my local residential care home to keep the bills ticking over. 

I did everything my coach told me to do, yet things didn't work. She taught me a lot of things, but she didn't teach me how to look after myself properly, particularly when you embark on huge projects like starting a business! I was doing my yoga, going running, and eating healthy food, but it was just not enough... 

Turns out when you work on things harder than you work on yourself, you deplete yourself. You eventually enter survival mode, which then leads to either burnout, or a spiral to dark and ugly places of the mind. 

So there I was, with a severe breakdown having spiralled out of control and having run out of clients, money and hope. 

I felt embarrassed and too proud to ask for help. I couldn't possibly show the world the struggle below the surface. Not being able to see a way out, I considered ending it all.

During my darkest day, a last resort was to roll my yoga mat out. So I did. For the next 45 minutes as I moved my body, I released some sort of demon through a flood of tears. I cried uncontrollably, until I couldn't cry any more. The intensity of the release wore me out entirely, leaving me on a heap on the floor. BUT, it gave me something - it gave me just enough to courage to carry on for another day. 

That day something shifted. 

I had to find out what this yoga malarkey was REALLY about and why/how it saved my life. 

I stated studying it and became obsessed with my findings. I followed an inner calling to teach and used to only money I had made from my business, to enrol on my 200hr YTT. 

What I discovered during my 7 months in training, made me feel like I had come home....

The more I learned about myself, the more things started shifting and shortly after, a 6-month Thinking Into Results programme found me - a Mindset & Manifestation programme which helps you understand and rewire your mind.

What happened during this time, changed EVERYTHING.

 As I learned about the deeper meanings of yoga, mindful movement, breath, Chakras, the four bodies and how my mind works, I connected with a whole new part of me. The more I discovered, the more I started seeing so clearly where I went so wrong all my life! 

The anxiety, the sugar addiction, the aimlessness, the failed business, the trip to the darkest part of my mind...suddenly everything made sense:

I was totally disconnected from my True Self, with a complete lack of understanding of who and what I am. And my life was nothing but repetitive cycles keeping me stuck.

I never knew this, because I never slowed down enough to be with myself...

I made a decision that day - that I will NEVER EVER get myself into a position that dark ever again. And so the soul journey started and Soul Care was born - A practise of connecting, nurturing and healing myself in all four bodies - physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually before I do anything else.

I started embodying this practise and my life transformed in every way possible as it connected me with an inner strength that I somehow knew I had but didn’t know how to access.

Now a fulltime entrepreneur with a soul-aligned business having broken the patterns, taken control of my habits and responsibility for my life, I have chosen to dedicate my life to my purpose - To empower women to reconnect with themselves and take their power back too!

So here we are. 

🦋Feeling better about myself than ever

🦋Healthier than ever

🦋More abundant than ever

🦋More connected with myself than ever 

🦋With more confidence than ever 

🦋With better relationships than ever

And I am here for my women who wants the same.

I am not here to just teach you some yoga sister. 

I am here to share with you tools that can transform your life. 

Tools which continues to transform my life and those of my Women Warriors - women who are honouring that inner knowing that they can be better too. Women who are brave enough to go there... 

I believe that the better we are, the better we are in the world. 

Therefore the more women who heal themselves, the better a world we can create... 

If you're down sister, join the Soul Journey, find yourself again.

It's a beautiful space to operate from.

I'll see you inside the Soul Yogi Tribe when your time is here 💚

...introduce to you co-finder of The Soul Sanctuary (also my biggest supporter and soul mate!)

After some convincing, he joined me on the journey. Initially it was blackmail in it's purest form to get him to come on a Mindset & Manifestation programme with me. But it was for the good. 

Bowers finally found in himself what he failed to find for so many years - his confidence. As he started understanding himself and his mind, he too decided there was more to him and that he wanted more from life.

After another (slightly less radical form of blackmailing), his soul journey properly started as he embarked on my Soul Care Programme. As he slowed down and started clearing the energy centres & healing his four bodies, he connected with himself on an entirely new level.

During this period, he discovered the power of the cold and started using it as a tool to control his social anxiety, ADHD, and habitual weekly alcohol intake. Shortly after, he found a purpose to share this powerful tool with the world.

Now also a fulltime entrepreneur after 25 years in an office, he is a Qualified Level 2 Wim Hof Method Instructor, Meditation teacher and Holistic counsellor.

He can be found close by either working on himself, practising Soul Care, or creating healing content for The Soul Sanctuary. 

You’ll hear him around when you join the Soul Journey!