Around the Mid seventies Paul started awakening to the relative limitations of experience as a stiff information overloaded white New Zealand bloke. He found by increasing flexibility and practicing sustained mental concentration he had more energy and a more direct experience of what was happening in any moment. He became more clear and his health improved

Paul spend 20 years as a science researcher and commenced yoga and meditation practice during this time. After Paul spent 3 years serving as a forestry adviser to the government , of Vietnam, then second poorest country in the world, and seeing the heart state there amid the poverty he destined to live more in the heart state rather than becoming totally lost in a material view and focus.

Having spent a passionate 30 years practicing and studying Iyengar Yoga with teacher in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune India, Paul strives to create a concentration of attention for students so a deeper meaning and sense of vibrant life can be touched. Using poses and sequencing with deep relaxation the sense of the present moment can be transform into deep meaning.

Yoga practice allows an increase range of physical, emotional and mental movement; we become fully our self with our conditioning and not just our conditioning.