About Me

My Journey So Far:

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In 2023 I made a decision that changed everything - I stopped drinking alcohol and started practicing yoga every day instead.

 

I'd always been a big drinker and during and after lockdown it had got out of control, drinking every day, feeling unable to cope or unwind without a glass (or actually a whole bottle, or two) of wine every single evening. Once I understood that alcohol was doing the opposite of what I thought it was (making me more stressed and tired, not less, more anxious, less able to sleep, less fun to be around) quitting was easy and I've never looked back or craved a drink since.

 

In sobriety, I very soon realised that alcohol had been masking everything I had been struggling with for years - ADHD, chronic overwhelm, emotional exhaustion, the relentless pressure to hold everything together. Drinking too much was in fact a symptom of my undiagnosed ADHD, filling a dopamine shaped hole in my life that I hadn't been aware of.

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I started taking yoga seriously, gained my first teaching qualification and my life started to feel like it was all coming along swimmingly. I had been sober and working on myself for a year and then...

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... a few things happened in quick succession to completely change my outlook on life. 

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My dad got ill and died within 8 weeks of diagnosis, in his mid 70s. 

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Perimenopause and grief combined made me feel like I was losing my mind. I quit my job as a cafe manager and pivoted to a lower stress part time office job...

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...at which I lasted six months. I didn't pass my probation for failing to perform basic daily tasks and forgetting to attend meetings (plural).

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At this point I was finally diagnosed with ADHD.

 

I stopped trying to jam myself into yet another career that wasn’t right. Instead, I listened to my intuition and asked the universe for guidance. I opened myself to the possibility of something new. I set out to learn as much as I could about ADHD, women's health and perimenopause in particular, I started looking for signs and opportunities to lead me to my life's real purpose..

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In a crazy hyperfocus of a month in April 2025 I wrote a book and self published it, and then thousands of women bought it and sent me emails and messages, and at that point I realised I had a voice and a purpose to help other women understand their own minds and bodies the way I have.

 

Yoga gave me back to myself. It gave me the tools to understand my ADHD brain, to work with it instead of against it. It showed me how to manage my fluctuating moods and energies, connecting me to a higher level of awareness, and creating a life that worked for me, not against me.

 

 And Yoga opened my mind and the door to other modalities of movement and fitness. Through teaching Yoga I was offered the chance to learn to teach Pilates. A random conversation there led me to join an outdoor gym to lift weights and run. Within a year I had completely changed my body composition, run a half marathon, built muscles I didn't even know existed and embarked on a whole new journey into Personal Training and coaching.

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Now, through Mindful Yogi Academy, I guide others on their own path.

 

I don’t teach unrealistic self-care routines or rigid structures that fall apart after a week. Instead, I offer mindfulness and movement practices that fit into real, messy, demanding lives. Simple but powerful shifts that help you carry life more easily,  without feeling like you have to fight your own brain in the process. I won't ever tell you to commit to training every day, to quit drinking or to stop eating all the food you like, or any other absolutes or shoulds or nevers. That shit doesn't work for most of us and just leads to more guilt and pressure. 

 

Because as women we are already doing too much, carrying too much. And my mission is to help you lighten that load, step out of survival mode, and start living fully again.

 

My method isn’t about productivity or gains. It’s about resilience. It’s about freedom. It’s about building a life and routines that work for you, without overloading your already overwhelmed nervous system.

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​I look forward to welcoming you to class, online or in person.

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Love and light,

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Sam Davis