Why I created the OceanFlow Method
After sharing why I left academia with my community, I had some questions around what I am now doing.
So, I decided to write this short reflection on why I created the OceanFlow Method. I guess there was a point where I realised, I really wanted to join the dots up in my life and my loves.
I had spent over twenty years working in marine science, sustainability, and education, understanding the Ocean as our life-support system. I was leading marine expeditions to remote parts of the globe, researching coral reefs, and teaching students.
I had also fallen in love with teaching yoga, holding space, running retreats, supporting my students to feel more connected to themselves as nature.
But these two worlds, both so important to me, were separate. I wanted to find a way to bring them together. I was already doing this with my yoga students in class and whilst leading regenerative retreats, but how could I help yoga teachers?
How could I take everything I had learned from marine science, education, and years of designing courses and experiences, and support nature and Ocean-loving yoga teachers to expand their work in a way that felt genuine, informed, and sustainable?
Teaching yoga is already hugely important work in the world. It helps people feel better, more connected, more present and in turn this helps us serve.
Imagine then, if these amazing yoga teachers also had the knowledge, the skills, the network, the community, the methods, the understanding to align their teaching with Ocean-positive actions so they, and their students, could contribute to helping our beautiful planet. So that their teaching, their values, and their lives feel more integrated.
And yes, so that they can build offerings, retreats, and experiences that are not only regenerative and impactful, but also financially sustainable, all whilst having time for family, friends, community. We all know doing meaningful work in the world should not come at the cost of burnout, and we can’t serve from a place of burnout.
The more urgent our environmental challenges became, the more I felt a responsibility to take what I knew beyond academia and into spaces where it could ripple outward more quickly.
And so, over time, the OceanFlow Method emerged. Drawing on decades of experience in education and course design, it brings together three core elements:
Ocean literacy
Embodied practice (yoga, breathwork, meditation)
Ethical leadership
Into a single, integrated approach.
The OceanFlow Method is a leadership training for yoga teachers.
The kind that supports teachers to not only hold space for students, but to guide their communities towards a deeper relationship with the natural world, because when that connection is made, the impact ripples outward.
With the pioneer students on the course, I was hopeful of the impact it could have, but I was truly quite moved by the feedback which was the evidence I needed to be sure.
‘This course gave me the confidence and clarity I needed when I felt a bit lost’
‘I now run ocean yoga events and integrate ocean literacy into my teaching’
‘It helped me synthesise my life’
More than anything, I wanted to support an identity shift, to give form to something many people are already sensing, that we are not separate from nature, that our practices don’t exist in isolation, and that feeling well and serving in the world are not two different things.
The OceanFlow Method is an invitation into that space.
I’m opening the next cohort in September 2026, get in touch for more info.