Meet Warrior Jules

I didn’t arrive at yoga searching for stillness.
In fact, my early years were rooted in strength, sport and pushing through.

I came from a sporting background — years as a Rugby Union player, coach and referee — where strength, resilience and pushing through were part of my identity. But injury and illness began to shift that story. Living with Atypical Facial Pain and recurring back issues forced me to slow down in ways I hadn’t chosen.

Yoga began as a physical support.
It became something far deeper.

It gave me space.
Space to breathe.
Space to feel.
Space to reconnect with who I was beneath performance, pressure and expectation.

Over time, yoga became not just something I practised, but something I lived.

In 2018, after years of personal practice, I stepped away from corporate life and travelled to Bali to complete my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in the Tantric Hatha tradition at Zuna Yoga. That sabbatical — combined with solo travel — marked the beginning of what I now call my conscious reset.

Returning to corporate work briefly after that period made something clear: my body knew when I was out of alignment. My pain flared. My energy depleted. My nervous system spoke loudly.