Santosha came into being and unfolds organically, out a great love for humanity, the Earth & Life itself. 

My intention is to create and nurture a deeply and simply nourishing space, right in the city where we need it most, for the collective mind to relax, and the shared Heart to be gently unveiled. For us all to remember the quiet simplicity of the Love we are made of. To remember we are both a minute part of, and all of, Everything - "a drop in the ocean, and an ocean in a drop".

My hope is that through our practice, as we find the courage to open and let go of our learned resistances, we can open to trusting ourselves, each other, and the wisdom of Life, so that we will feel the power of compassion, vulnerability, and authenticity, and the freedom in responsibility to ourselves and our incredible world.

And that we'll all feel freaking incredible in the process!

I started practising meditation, then the other aspects of Yoga, more than twenty years ago, long before a spinal cord injury that - like every moment in each of our lives - moved the trajectory of things a notch or two. It's been particularly since that time however, that the teachings and my practice have informed the entire experience of life potently. The ancient guidance we've been offered provides me tools, ever-growing openness, and a constantly shifting understanding and experience, to explore the power of perception within, and the immense freedom and huge love inherent in that. The practice of awareness on the mat informs the wider (& often more challenging!) experience of each moment in life. Courage to let go and open, leads me back again and again out of dramatic confusion, through authenticity (satya), into contentment (santosha), where I can drop the mind hilarity and remember my part in this divine Ocean. In and as the Ocean, delivered more simply, more quietly, closer to Home. And it's here I fall in Love, with both the beauty and the chaos - over and over again. So yeh, that's where it came from.

I'm hugely grateful that Santosha serves as a space of inner (& outer) connection and nourishment for all who share it; to the other amazing teachers sharing the space and filling it with Love; and especially for the Heart - the wisdom - of the people who come and practise together. Santosha is such a cockles-warming community, my Heart bursts open on the regular! Thankyou for the opportunity to share part of this beautiful journey of Life together with all of you, it's truly a huge honour, and a WHOLE lot of fun and love, for which I'm ridiculously grateful. With gigantic love, you legends of Being. Ally xx