Mary Smiley

Mary Patricia is a certified yoga educator with a keen interest in physiology and the biomechanics of how the body moves in general, so functional movement is a big part of what she likes to educate about…

Mary draws inspiration from the eclectic mix of movement modalities and practices that she has studied over the years including Astanga, Hatha, Vinyasa, yin, somatic intelligence, biomechanics, Iyengar, ELDOA (Orthopedic modality) meditation and Tantra among others.

She teaches in an engaging layered, learning based way, encouraging students to practice with grace and an enquiring curiosity. Her application of yoga is embedded in the felt sense of optimal anatomical alignment whilst building stories through movement where one can continuously feel grounded and find calibration through slow and steady movement, subtly, repatterning, embodiment and experiential movement all through therapeutic application whilst giving the students agency to explore.​