Beyond the ordinary
Embodied Stories: Yoga in the Gallery at Autograph
A real highlight of 2025 was delivering a yoga class within my retrospective photography exhibition A Thousand Small Stories at.
The experience brought together my photographic practice and yoga teaching in the same space where my work was on display, combining visual storytelling with embodied practice. It allowed me to explore how movement, breath, and stillness can sit alongside photography in a shared environment.
Delivering a yoga class within my own exhibition created space for a more expansive and playful approach to practice. Participants were invited to slow down, soften, and engage with yoga in an open and intuitive way.
As part of Embodied Stories: Yoga in the Gallery, the session also included a sound bath led by Olivier Hurtis, whose soundscape supported a deeper experience of rest and presence.
Held on 14 June 2025 at Autograph Gallery, the session combined movement, breathwork, sound, and stillness, creating a reflective space within the exhibition.
It was a powerful reminder that care and art can coexist, and that galleries can hold space not only for looking, but for healing, rest, and connection.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined, and to Autograph for supporting and holding space for this offering.
Black History Month Yoga with Hurdle2Hoops CIC
My connection with Hurdle2Hoops CIC began through teaching regular yoga classes with throughout 2025, delivering lunchtime sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the community.
These classes have been rooted in accessibility, wellbeing, and creating space for people to pause, move, and reset during the week. It has been a privilege to support their work with asylum seekers, refugees, and the wider Westminster community through free yoga and wellbeing sessions.
From this ongoing relationship, I was invited to deliver a special women-only yoga session for Black History Month, 25th October 2025.
The session created space to honour Black history through wellbeing, rest, and movement. Alongside this, I was featured on the Hurdle2Hoops Instagram page in a Black History Month spotlight, where I shared my experience as a yoga teacher of West African and West Indies descent, and reflected on the importance of representation within wellness spaces.
Representation matters. It shapes who feels welcome, who feels seen, and who feels able to step into spaces like yoga without hesitation.
Being part of both the regular classes and the Black History Month session has been deeply meaningful and aligns strongly with delivering yoga classes in community space.
I’m grateful to everyone who attended the weekly sessions, and to Hurdle2Hoops CIC for the trust, collaboration, and continued opportunity to share this work.
These experiences continue to remind me how can yoga can support, give connection, and accessible wellbeing for all.