Ogham yoga is a school dedicated to supporting yoga and movement practitioners to grow the roots, confidence and embodied knowledge to facilitate and share authentic practice, rooted in lineage-based teachings and the cyclical, animate wisdom of the land we live on.
Ogham Yoga is an ecosystem of yogis, teachers, guides, creatives, practitioners, artists, curious souls and those with a desire to be in continual relationship with Source, through the threads of connection that weave between each and every human heart on this planet, and the heart of the earth itself.
Ecosystems are interdependent - ecosystems rely on the full health & expression of each individual in the forest in order for the whole to be nourished and balanced.
Why ‘Ogham’ yoga‘?
‘Ogham’ (pronounced ‘Om’) is the oldest known written form of the Irish language, with each ‘letter’ actually representing the name of a native tree (‘beith’= ‘birch’, ‘luis’ =‘rowan’, etc). So, ‘Ogham’ letters are essentially the seed sounds (or bīja mantras) for the Irish language, and those seed sounds are rooted in the landscape itself.
Somatics and eco-somatics are schools of thought & practice whereby we start to understand & inhabit our bodies more by being in deep relationship to the land we live on, the world around us, and everything that passes through & between them. Non-dual tantric teachings from the Srī Vidya & Trika lineages support this view by offering a philosophical backdrop on which we can lean in order to enter into deeper relationship with the alive, awake, aware, Direct experience of the present moment as it is unfolding.
By combining these practices and views, a new mode of perception unfolds; a way of perceiving ourselves, our bodies and the individual ‘I-self’ as it relates to the singular, unchanging, universal whole.
A way of being that honours the subtle, invisible yet palpable connective tissue that binds us all together; through the felt-sense, through intuition, image, sound, dream, insight and Direct, imminent lived experience.
The teachings shared through this school are informed by the teachings of non-dual tantra, specifically Sri Vidya Tantra and the Trika Lineage. These teachings have been passed to me through teachers such as Rod Stryker, Octavio Salvado, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Hareesh Wallis, and Natalie Backman. I also draw from traditional hatha yoga techniques, meditation and somatic tools such as basic neurocellular patterns, as passed to me through a yogic and tantric lens by Collette Davis and Paula Andréewitch. I’m deeply grateful to all the teachers who have shaped my path and who continue to support and inspire me deeper into study and practice.
