Saskia Griffiths

I grew up chasing adrenaline, skiing and show jumping in the Pyrenees, living for the thrill and freedom. But the price was steep: a collection of injuries that quietly laid the groundwork for chronic pain.

By my twenties I was working high-stress real estate jobs in Andorra and the French Alps, sitting at desks with an already strained body. The discomfort became constant. Something had to change.

That something became the work of a lifetime. Over the past seventeen years I have travelled the world to study yoga, meditation, bodywork and the healing arts. What began as a search for relief became a deep exploration of what it means to live in a body fully, freely and wisely.

Learning how my body works, how load travels, how tissue adapts, how attention changes movement — gave me back more than I knew I was missing.

I have lived with chronic sciatica, frozen shoulders, pulled groins, sprained ankles and plantar fasciitis. I know the frustration and emotional weight of a body out of balance. I also know that pain is rarely random: it is the body asking us to move differently. When we learn to listen and respond, something shifts, not only in the body, but in the mind too.

• 2009 — Yoga Alliance 200 hr TT, Chiang Mai Thailand
• 2010 — British Wheel of Yoga Pregnancy Yoga 60 hr TT, London UK
• 2012 — Internship with Dr Jagadish Iyengar, Mysore India
• 2012 — Thai Massage training, Chiang Mai Thailand
• 2014 — Craniosacral therapy Level 1, Mallorca Spain
• 2016–2019 — 400+ hrs Bowspring training, Denver CO and worldwide
• 2020 — Global Bowspring Certified Teacher
• 2020–2023 — Fascial dissections with Tom Myers and Todd Garcia
• Various silent meditation retreats and workshops with globally renowned teachers

I come from a nomadic family of adventurers, born in the Netherlands to parents from East Africa, raised in the mountains of Andorra and shaped by life in Spain, the USA, Argentina, France, Thailand, India and Morocco. Movement of body, place and spirit has always been my compass.

For the first twenty years of my life I spent more time with horses than with people. Training, competing and simply being with these intuitive animals taught me to listen beyond words, to read energy and to respond from presence. Those years shaped my nervous system in ways I only fully understand now.

That same spirit of presence led me to the TEDx stage in Andorra, where I shared simple tools to recognise the state where clarity and synchronicity naturally arise. I have led over thirty retreats across North Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and South America and I continue to find joy in holding space for others to reconnect with their own body's wisdom.

Plainly and without mystique. No pushing through, no perfect posture.

My work is to help you understand your own body again, so you can move with less pain, feel at home in yourself and not only keep doing the things you love but do even more!