ALKHEMI YOGA

Alkhemi Yoga combines elements of holistic flowing yoga, sacred dance, and the principles of Alkhemi Therapy.

Alkhemi Yoga evolved organically and intuitively from my own yoga practice as I gradually realised that the most effective form of healing occurs when dynamic activity, intentional movement, conscious breathwork and relaxation are performed together as part of the same routine.

Early in 2008, a friend mentioned that she’d been attending yoga classes. I had a sudden vision of myself teaching yoga in Egypt. With the sort of synchronicities that only happen when you’re aligned with your Highest Destiny, I discovered Dru Yoga, and a few months later began the Dru Yoga Teacher Training course. Dru Yoga is a gentle but powerful form of yoga, based on flowing movements, directed breathing and visualisation. Rooted in Yogic Philosophy, it embraces modern principles of health and psychology. Although I’d attended yoga classes in my teens and twenties, I was amazed by the impact Dru Yoga had on my fitness and stress levels. What had begun as a master plan to run spiritual and yoga holidays in Egypt quickly became a personal daily practice which kept me sane during a very challenging period of my life. After many years of contemplating health from a mental and emotional perpsective, I began to truly understand the importance of conscious movement and breathwork for optimum health and well-being.

My personal spiritual practice could best be described as a form of ancient Egyptian shamanism, a very personal method I’ve developed over the last two decades which I call Alkhemi Therapy. It’s a psycho-spiritual system of natural healing and self-empowerment, a path of contemporary spirituality with its roots in the sacred wisdom traditions of ancient Egypt. Gradually, my yoga practice and Alkhemi Therapy began to blend together. This process happened very naturally for me - it seems I instinctively see any sacred practice through the lens of ancient Egypt!

A pivotal moment came in 2013 during a dance workshop at the African Drum Village camp ( a week of African percussion and dance workshops in Scotland). As a child I took ballet classes for eight years, and as an adult I have explored tap and bellydance, but African dance was like nothing I’d experienced before. It was exuberant and ecstatic, and reminded me of the sense of freedom I felt in my body as a child. I realised how important it is to experience that freedom and exuberance in our bodies on a regular basis.

Rhythm permeates all of nature, reverberating both within and without us: from every breath we take to the lapping of waves on a seashore; from the beating of our heart to the great cycling of the planets, stars and galaxies, our bodies are bathed with electricalpulsations and biorhythms. Our whole being pulses rhythmically whether we are conscious of it or not. At the centre of our being is the heart, pulsing out a steady rhythm our whole life, in fact, the first rhythm we experience is our mother’s heartbeat. Rhythm is life!