Non-Duality: The Teaching at the Heart of My Work

Most of us begin our yoga journey inside a dualistic framework - a worldview that separates the human from the divine, the body from the spirit, the sacred from the ordinary. That was certainly true for me.

In the early years of my practice, I learned through the lens of Patanjali and other classical teachings that framed enlightenment as something to reach: a distant state one might ascend into through discipline, purification, and detachment. The body was a vehicle to refine. The mind was something to control. The goal was somewhere “over there,” and I was here, striving toward it.

For a long time, this made sense to me. Maybe because it mirrored so many other messages I had absorbed throughout my life: that growth is something you earn, that worth is tied to effort, that transcendence comes from rising above where you are rather than sinking deeply into it.

But as I continued studying, not only within yoga, but also in my academic work teaching philosophy, sociology and religious studies. Something in me began to question the premise of separation itself. My living, breathing experience didn’t match the idea of distance between the human and the divine. It didn’t match the idea that the body was an obstacle or that the sacred was only found through mastery.

Slowly, the philosophy of non-duality began to shift everything.

Non-duality isn’t a concept - it’s a remembering.

Non-dual teachings, found in many traditions and lineages, suggest something profoundly simple and radically disruptive: the divine is not separate from us. Consciousness is not outside of us. Truth is not elsewhere. Whatever language you use, god, source, awareness, being, it’s already here, already present, already woven into your very existence.

Nothing to earn.
Nothing to achieve.
Nothing to transcend.

Instead of striving upward, non-duality invites us downward, into the body, into sensation, into relationship, into presence. Not as a means to an end, but as the end itself.

From this perspective, the question changes from ‘How do I reach the divine?’ to ‘What keeps me from recognising what is already here?’

And the answer, I came to realise, isn’t that we are lacking.

It’s that we are layered.

Layered with conditioning.
Layered with inherited ideas.
Layered with cultural scripts.
Layered with beliefs about who we should be and how we should live.

None of this is wrong. It’s human. It’s inevitable. But it often creates a kind of forgetting, a forgetting of our innate connection, our innate wholeness.

The body, through a non-dual lens, becomes a site of truth instead of a project to fix.

Dualistic traditions often view the body as something to rise above or purify, a temporary container on the way to something ‘higher.’ But non-duality reframes the body as a living expression of consciousness itself. Not separate from the sacred, but an embodiment of it.

This shifts everything.

Instead of controlling or overriding the body, we learn to listen.
Instead of striving, we soften.
Instead of performing, we sense.

The body becomes a bridge rather than a barrier, a place where we can experience the fullness of our humanity and, within that, recognise our inherent divinity.

This lens underpins all of my work.

My offerings come from this understanding: nothing is missing and nothing is wrong.

Whether we are moving, resting, breathing, sensing, or still, the invitation is the same: to return to yourself, not as a project but as a homecoming. To peel back the layers that obscure your own knowing. To remember what has always been true beneath the noise of conditioning and expectation.

Non-duality is not passive. It’s not about bypassing the world or pretending everything is perfect. It’s not “everything is one so everything is fine.”

It’s an active remembering.
A reclaiming.
A re-rooting into who you are beneath who you’ve been told to be.

This is why my work doesn’t ask you to perform or achieve. It doesn’t treat your body as something to fix. It doesn’t assume brokenness. Instead, it assumes wholeness, not as an ideal but as a lived, embodied truth that may have simply been forgotten.

What this looks like in practice

In my classes and sessions, you’ll notice:

• more sensing than shaping

• more inquiry than instruction

• invitations instead of commands

• attunement over achievement

• cycles over linear progression

• presence over performance

These are not stylistic choices. They grow directly from non-dual philosophy. They make space for the divine-as-you rather than divine-as-somewhere-else.

Non-duality is a remembering of belonging.

Ultimately, non-duality brings us back into relationship - with our bodies, with each other, with the living world, and with the deeper intelligence that moves through all of it.

It reminds us that we are not separate.
Not from nature.
Not from one another.
Not from the ground of being itself.

This remembering is tender.
Sometimes confronting.
Always liberating.

And it shapes everything I teach, guide, create, and hold.