About Me

I'm Kay, a trauma-informed somatic coach and yoga teacher based in Milton Keynes. My work is shaped by lived experience of the body under pressure, of the nervous system stretched beyond its limits, and of what it takes to find your way back.

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I came to yoga in 2017 after a disc injury at L5/S1. What struck me most wasn't the physical recovery, it was how disconnected I had become from my own body.

 

Yoga offered me something I hadn't realised I'd lost, a way to slow down, listen, and come back to myself at my own pace. From the very first class, I felt a shift. A quiet curiosity. A sense of calm I hadn't felt in a long time.

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That experience changed the direction of everything. In 2022 I completed my 300-hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training at Whitespace in Stony Stratford, accredited through Yoga Alliance. Since then my learning has continued to deepen into trauma-informed restorative yoga, meditation and mindfulness, and Reiki, each layer adding texture to how I understand the body and what it needs to feel safe.

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Alongside my personal journey, I spent over 22 years working in policing. It is a career I am proud of and one that came at a cost. Over those years I navigated burnout, secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and significant nervous system dysregulation. I know what hypervigilance feels like from the inside. I know how stress and trauma take up residence in the body long after the moment has passed.

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Those experiences didn't just shape me personally. They showed me how many people  particularly those in caregiving, emergency, or high-responsibility roles are carrying the same weight, often without the language or the space to acknowledge it.

That is the heart of why I do this work.

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I am currently completing my ACCHP-accredited Somatic Teaching and Coaching training, deepening my understanding of how the body holds experience and how gentle, body-based approaches can support healing and growth. It feels like the piece that brings everything together, the yoga, the lived experience, the years of watching what sustained stress does to a person and gives it shape and intention.

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Everything I offer is grounded in compassion, choice, and nervous system awareness. My intention is to create a space where people can slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and explore what feels helpful for them, without pressure, without judgement, and without needing to have it all figured out first.