My journey to Citta Flow

People often assume I've always worked in health or fitness, but the truth is, my career began in a completely different world.

For more than twenty years, I worked in engineering recruitment and project management, coordinating rail projects, and helping companies find engineers and technical professionals. It was a fast-paced environment that I genuinely enjoyed. I loved working with people, solving problems and helping candidates find opportunities that suited them.

At the same time, I'd always had a creative side. I studied Interior Design and Architecture and eventually took the leap to start my own interior design business. For eight years I designed homes, helped clients create spaces they loved and immersed myself in creativity every day. Even now, I still love renovating and decorating my own home.

Looking back, those careers probably weren't as different as they seem. Both were about understanding people, listening carefully and helping them find solutions that worked for them.

Life, however, has a way of changing our plans.

A series of health challenges meant surgeries, medical appointments and long periods of waiting for results. Like many people facing uncertainty, my mind rarely switched off. I found myself worrying about what might happen next, what the future would look like and whether life would ever feel normal again.

It was during that time that yoga quietly found its place in my life.

Not in a beautiful studio.

Not surrounded by other students.

Most of the time it was just me, at home, often in my pyjamas, rolling out a mat in the lounge room.

Those simple practices became something I looked forward to. For a little while, I could stop thinking about hospital appointments and medical tests. My body felt a little more comfortable, my breathing became easier and my mind found moments of calm that had been missing for quite some time.

As my interest grew, I enrolled in a Yoga Teacher Training. People often assume I signed up because I wanted to teach yoga, but that honestly wasn't my motivation. At that point I'd already closed my interior design business and was trying to work out what the next chapter of my life might look like. I wanted to understand yoga more deeply. I wanted to learn about the breath, about movement and about the philosophy that had helped me so much during a difficult time.

During my training I started attending yoga classes at different studios, hoping to deepen my own practice.

But something didn't feel quite right. I was still recovering from surgery, and I often found there were very few options offered for people whose bodies couldn't do everything being demonstrated. Classes moved quickly, I found myself trying to keep up, and more than once I left feeling sore, out of breath and, if I'm honest, more stressed than when I'd walked in.

So I returned to what had helped me in the first place, and I went back to practising quietly at home.

Over time, a thought kept returning to me. What if there was a studio where people didn't feel they had to keep up?

What if yoga could be taught with more compassion, more patience and more understanding that every person walks through the door with a different story?

What if options weren't something offered only when someone was injured, but simply part of the way yoga was taught?

That idea eventually became Citta Flow.

From the beginning, I wanted it to be a place where people felt welcome exactly as they were. A place where beginners could practise alongside experienced students, where breath awareness was just as important as movement, and where students were encouraged to work with their own bodies rather than trying to copy someone else's.

As I've continued my studies in Yoga Therapy with Dr Ganesh Mohan, that vision has become even clearer.

The more I learn, the more I appreciate that good teaching isn't about getting everyone into the same posture. It's about understanding the individual sitting in front of you. Every person's body is different. Every person's breathing is different. Every person's life experiences shape the way they move, breathe and respond.

That's why I still believe yoga isn't about achieving the perfect pose.

It's about creating a little more ease in your body.

It's about learning to observe your breath rather than fighting it.

It's about finding steadiness during life's uncertain moments.

And sometimes, it's simply about giving yourself one hour where nobody needs anything from you.

When people ask me what makes Citta Flow different, I don't think it's the timetable, the classes or even the studio itself.

I think it's that everything we do has grown from lived experience.

The studio I dreamed of creating all those years ago is the same studio I still hope to walk into myself, a place where people feel supported, listened to and welcomed exactly as they are.

If my own journey has taught me anything, it's that yoga meets us where we are, not where we think we should be. And for me, that's what Citta Flow has always been about.

With love, and gratitude, Bron