LUCIE NORRIS

Sup Yoga Teacher & Yoga Practitioner

From a very young age I have always been interested in health and fitness, I danced from the age of 11 - 19 when my life dramatically changed. I suffered a brain hemorrhage, and I had right-side paralysis, through sheer determination and 3 months of great rehabilitation in Sheffield Northern General Hospital, I started walking again. It was a very slow process, it took me around 2 years to be able to walk. 6 years later I moved to London and continued my career as a creative makeup artist. in 2014 I then made the decision to change my career and took my 200hr Hatha yoga course with an exceptional tutor Eleanor Ramsby. This course made me feel like nothing in my life was impossible and my mental and physical strength completely changed. Yoga and meditation became part of my daily routine, my attitude changed, and my stress, anger, and frustration dissolved into almost nothing through my practice.

Through my love of water, I trained to become a SUP and SUP Yoga teacher in 2017, I started my own SUP yoga business at one of the most secretive and beautiful places in London, the West Reservoir Center, North London, where I run classes throughout the spring and summer seasons in London. The water is one of my favorite places to be around, feeling peaceful and calm.

After around a year of teaching and guiding people in a class, I began connecting with my own body’s natural womanly cycles, I really enjoyed the connection to the feminine energy I was creating in my classes. In 2018 I then trained in a Women’s wellness program with Real Flow Yoga. This training really opened my eyes to working with women through, pregnancy, postnatal & menopause.

My hobbies outside of work are free diving and swimming. This has become a huge part of my life thanks to Blue Chitta, who I trained with in Panama in 2017. Free diving gives you the skills of mind over matter and relaxation, using breathing techniques as used in yoga practice to slow down your heart rate and become fully conscious and present.