Vickie Burkinshaw

General Motivator

What I do

I love business. I especially love how small business can open up pathways for women to create their own destinies. As a self-employed mother of two, I share in the thrill that come with being in business while making time to enjoy bringing up the kids.

I help the team build strategies to ensure Bizness Babes continues to be fabulous and is constantly improving. I am enthusiastic about helping people realise they can achieve their dreams… whatever those dreams may be.

What I love

Yoga sustains me. Since discovering yoga some 10 years ago my life has been better. I can’t live without it and I must have a taste of it every day. Sometimes this means getting up at 4.30am for a 10 minute stretch before catching a plane. At times is has meant doing down faced dog with one or two little bodies attached. It often involves getting instruction from my little yogi’s touting “no Mummy your leg must go over your head!”.

Like many a celebrity my yoga practice is focussed primarily on the physical side of yoga the asanas, the breathing, the meditation, the concentration. . I take the best from classical yoga to suit my life.

Yoga has helped me survive back pain, pregnancy, births and business! You cannot survive business without looking after yourself and making yoga a non-negotiable part of my day is my way of creating balance in my life.

I love that there is an infinite number of yoga poses because it means there is always something to learn and you can never truly master all of it. A bit like business really…