I am so excited to have my dear friend and teacher Helen Noakes on the show today - a woman who is following her golden path, with so much passion, trust and love. I felt newly inspired after this conversation to listen to all the signs and impulses we receive as we flow through life, even if we don't know yet why and where they will lead us to. I also felt newly inspired to connect to my body as the one that (truly) knows, he / she is the bridge to the present moment, yes, my body is my temple and very best teacher. Thank you, Helen. 

Let me introduce Helen to you, Helen describes herself as nomadic yoga teacher inspired by the teachings and students of Vanda Scaravelli, the author of the book «Awakening the spine». Helen also offers training in Chavutti Thirumal (massage by foot pressure), which has a strong influence on her teaching style. She is passionate about spontaneous, intuitive movement in the form of waves and spirals and includes her love of ecstatic dance into her teaching. Helen’s aim is to invite a lightness of being and joy to our movement practice and to encourage others to listen and respond to their intuition with safety and awareness. Her teachings  have  no methods or set sequences, and are mainly improvisational. This approach encourages the practitioner to create a strong relationship to the ground, the breath and to awakening the spine.

In the conversation with Helen we talked about … 

• Helen's journey and background working as a make-up artist for the English opera and how these experiences influenced what she is doing day


• The teachers who where a big inspiration for Helen's path and how she learnt to follow very intuitive impulses which unravelled her deepest calling 


• What it means to trust yourself and why your body is your temple your very best teacher 


• What it means to be present in a very hectic and stressful environment and why this is when we learn to trust ourselves

I hope you feel as energised and inspired as I did after listening to the interview with Helen and that it encouraged you to follow your very own path and to trust yourself and all the messages you receive from your body! 

More information about Helen's work:

• You can find all about Helen Noakes on her webpage: www.helennoaket.net), and follow her on instagram and Facebook 


• Helen is teaching as part of the https://www.yogahealthmandala.co.uk/


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More links about the episode:

• She did Dissection courses with Julian Baker (www.functionalfascia.com)


• You can find more information about Gary Carter on www.naturalbodies.co.uk


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Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian; Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here

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