How did you get started in yoga?
Having dabbled on and off with yoga with my mum, who was into a spiritual lifestyle in the 70s and 80s, and then in 1994/95 during my choreography degree, I started practicing regularly in 1996 in New York City. I was in my mid-20s and regularly spent months in NYC dancing, choreographing and researching movement technique. My first class was at Jivamukti Yoga, and was an Ashtanga class, as well as their open classes they used to do in a small studio on the Lower East Side. I loved the use of music and the specificity of intention and reason for doing what we were doing. I fell completely in love with the Ashtanga yoga system and, on returning to the UK, each morning we started class with an Ashtanga sequence. There were not any decent yoga mats easily available in London, so I would buy this great carpet underlay from a man in Bethnal Green; he sourced a sticky material that was perfect to practice on, and would get it cut to size and order 20 at a time and give out to dancers or yoga friends. In the late 90s, on Monday nights at Jivamukti, we would go and chant
