When we left our lives behind to go sailing in 2018, my intention had always been to keep teaching live classes, but via one-day workshops and extended retreats, whenever we were back in the UK. At that time I had no idea that our COVID experience would open up the doorway for me to go online and create a new audience through Zoom and find a way to combine the job I loved with our plans to sail travel around the world.

During the various lockdowns we were not able to return to our boat home in Sicily, so as my Zoom audience continued to grow I pondered the future and looked for ways to retain the interest of my community of yogis, support home practice and offer opportunities to periodically re-group in live situations.

I came to the conclusion that the most logical way to continue to share mat time – given our travel plans – was to offer videos for self supporting practice, Zoom to meet online and open up a shared space, complemented by one day workshops and the ultimate – extended residential retreats.

For me this is a ‘layered support’ approach, which I believe is a really good way to sustain our practices as individuals and as part of a community of like-minded yogis….