Raquel Alves

Raquel Alves started teaching in 1992. She is qualified with Para Yoga (Rod Stryker), BWY, Sivannanda.

Originally from Africa, she now lives in the UK. Her teaching draws from many styles and has a strong pull towards Tantra but calls on her years as an Ashtanga practitioner and her years doing Iyengar yoga. She also loves to incorporate restorative relaxation techniques, meditation and on occasion chanting – accompanied by the harmonium.

Her personal practice draws on her current teacher’s teachings, she also assists him when he is teaching in Europe. She is a a 500 hrs yoga alliance Eyr (senior teacher), a tutor and mentor on the Yoga Campus Teacher Training Programme.

She brings a wealth of knowledge to her teaching with great attention to alignment and empowers her students to have fun and to enquire within, aiding them to empower themselves. Find out more about Raquel here.

Catherine Annis

Catherine Annis is a Senior Teacher, well known for her imaginative and down-to-earth, practical approach to yoga. She taught the Triyoga teacher training for many years before launching Intelligent Yoga Teacher training in 2017, an anatomically focused teacher training course with world-leading teachers including Gary Carter.

Originally a professional dancer, Catherine was introduced to yoga as a teenager and has been practicing since the 1970s. Over the years she has explored Sivananda, Iyengar, Astanga and various forms of Hatha yoga before discovering the teachings of  Vanda Scaravelli. This form of yoga is gentle on the joints, yet deeply engaging and occasionally demanding. It encourages us to re-discover the natural freedom of the body (especially the spine) soothes the nervous system and helps us move with more ease.

Catherine’s classes explore breath and subtle somatic work, drawing on the latest discoveries in pain science to create more physical ease for those working with back pain, stress and anxiety. She is attentive and thoughtful and highly skilled at adapting poses to suit all types of students so that everyone leaves class feeling that they have made a fresh discovery about their yoga practice.

Catherine moved to the wilds of Exmoor in 2020 where she practices cold water swimming and teaches regular weekly classes in person and online. She is in demand for workshops for the British Wheel of Yoga and leads retreats, workshops and teacher trainings throughout Europe and the UK. Find out more about Catherine from her website here.

Emma Arscott

Emma’s intention is to create an inspiring space for joy and transformation through yoga, meditation and breathwork. She truly believes that there is so much wisdom within the yoga practice that can reconnect our mind, body and soul and is passionate about making yoga available to as many people as possible.

She trained to teach yoga in Rishikesh, India, the home and heart of yoga and is extremely grateful to all of her amazing teachers she has worked with and learned from. Like a lot of people, she first came to the practice for the physical aspect and very quickly realised that there was a certain magic beyond the poses. The positive effects that the practice generated started to trickle into all aspects of her life and were so profound she felt called to share it with others.

Emma loves to blend modern anatomy teachings with traditional yogic philosophy to create well rounded sessions where you can learn about the fascinating biomechanics of your body, while giving your mind some well needed time and space away from the pressures of daily life. You can expect to be challenged in a slow, yet strong alignment-based flow to strengthen, tone and soothe your body. You will explore and connect through movement and breathwork keeping mindfulness at the heart of the practice. Each class will have a different focus, and there will always be options to make sure you’re practicing the right way for your body. You will finish the sessions feeling uplifted, nourished and refreshed ready to take on the world!

Find out more about Emma from her website here.

Clem Balfour

Clem is a passionate and fun teacher drawing on her experience after finding yoga over 12 years ago. Clem teaches uplifting classes, leading sequences inspired by vinyasa flow (aligning breath and movement) as well a slower more gentle yin practice, which allows her to respond to the energy in the room.

Through her teaching Clem explores the elements of yin and yang in the practice, to help balance out your energy and allow you to experience the effects of Yoga for your body and your mind. Her approach is to lead you through yin & yang classes that often begin with a slower more restorative practice with longer holds to help you unwind. Transitioning into a more dynamic vinyasa-based flow to allow you to leave the space feeling energised.

Clem has trained all over the world building on her love for vinyasa flow with Yoga London and The Yoga People. Her love for yin has been developed with trainings with Norman Blair and most recently Bernie Clarke. She is a founder of the ‘Yoga Brunch Club’, a popular events and retreat business running all over the UK, combining open level, energising yoga sessions, collaborating with chefs to create sit down feasts in beautiful surroundings.

Jodi Boone

Jodi’s retreat teaching style – Hatha flow, Restorative/Yin Yoga

Jodi began teaching yoga in 2001 as a way to share the profound practice that she feels has brought so much healing and peace into her own life. She believes yoga can be a moving meditation, and for this reason, within a hatha flow practice, likes to integrate gems of philosophy from many traditions for inspiration, as well as emphasize the breath and moments of stillness.

Before she started teaching for YOAS in 2008, she went on retreat with the company as a student in 2006 and 2007. Jodi fell in love with the nourishing aspects of retreat life, including immersing yourself in the practices of yoga, being in community with others who are drawn to the path of yoga, and traveling to beautiful locations and settings. In addition to teaching yoga, Jodi is a psychotherapist, massage therapist, and Ayurvedic practitioner.

Tania Brown

Tania’s retreat teaching style – Vinyasa flow, Restorative

Tania has been leading inspirational classes locally and internationally for 21 years. She has a unique ability to naturally inspire a deeper understanding of the flow of breath, movement and the mindful connections of yoga. Her teaching emphasis is on the power of the breath to manage and open the body, postural alignment, yogic philosophy and the integration of yoga principles into daily life.

She is passionate about promoting health, vitality and well-being through yoga in a light-hearted and accessible way. Tania’s practice began with her dad as a teenager. After years of regular yoga practice she studied with the Amrita School of Yoga to qualify as a Traditional Hatha Yoga teacher. She has also studied with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli (Yoga Nidra). Claire Missingham (Vinyasa Flow), Sarah Powers (Yin yoga) and Nigel Gilderson (Hatha yoga) amongst others. Most recently Tania is proud to be a student of Judith Hanson Lasater and Gabor Maté.

Tania has had the privilege to teach many people in different settings, including in schools, hospitals and teaching males on remand in Brixton prison. She builds a community where all bodies are welcome, offering free yoga if needed. She continues to develop infusing the different schools of yoga to give a rounded class reflecting the best of all the schools of yoga she continues to study.

“Tania teaches with warmth, energy, compassion and love. Her classes are a dynamic flowing style of yoga harmonising breath and movement to give strength and grace. They are accessible to all, whether or not you can touch your toes! just as long as you can breathe…”

Elena Byers

Elena teaches flowing somatic yoga and sacred song, rooted in philosophy, community + playfulness.

Having spent much of her life training in the creative body, with diverse years studying movement, performance, opera and visual arts, Elena is forever fascinated by the body’s ability to creatively express. And yoga being elemental in that journey since she emerged jelly-kneed from an Iyengar class in her teens.

Her classes are nurturing and powerful; guided from a place of genuine belief in the value of community and individual creative potential, wth lots of options to welcome all bodies in varying degrees of challenge and plenty of nourishing space in between.

A lover of sound, Elena’s teaching is often coloured with chanting and music, alongside the trusty accompaniment of her beloved harmonium Bina. Her practice and teaching incorporate flowing movement, Non-Dual philosophical teachings and playful proprioception work – combining her studies in anatomy and dance.

A long time devotee of TKV Desikachar’s teachings, she’s been guided over the last decade by studies in Yoga Philosophy with Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Somatics with Tias Little and Satu Tuomela and anatomy with Leslie Kaminoff. Presently she counts the inspiring Paula Andreewitch as her main teacher.

Nancy Campbell

Nancy’s retreat teaching style – Vinyasa flow, Yin, elements of Kundalini

Nancy has been practising yoga for over 30 years and teaching since 2011, offering a practice that is both supportive and grounding. She has a natural ability to guide students into a deeper connection with breath, movement and the more subtle, philosophical layers of the practice.

Her teaching is rooted in the belief that yoga is so much more than movement: it is a pathway to greater awareness, resilience and self-discovery, while also being a powerful way to support physical health and wellbeing. Nancy encourages her students to explore what feels possible for them, meeting themselves with curiosity rather than judgement. Her classes offer a sense of challenge, always adapted to the individual, creating space for both growth and self-trust.

With a warm, inclusive and light-hearted approach, she creates an environment where everyone feels at ease and able to be themselves. Her classes are creative and nurturing, blending vinyasa flow, yin and yang practices, breathwork and often elements of her kundalini training –  whilst weaving  yogic philosophy through each practise. She loves music and has creative playlists but when outside she also loves to embrace the sounds of nature.

Nancy enjoys bringing a sense of playfulness into her teaching  sometimes inviting students to explore poses they may not have thought possible, lesser known wellness tools such as shaking, dynamic breath, tapping and self massage. Many experience their first baby headstand on retreat. Equally, she is clear that no posture defines the practice, and no one should ever feel they are missing out if something isn’t right for their body.

She has studied with Claire Missingham, Jason Crandell, Norman Blair and Uma Dinsmore Tuli, and has also trained in Breathwork, Reiki, Sound healing and Life coaching.

She has taught in a variety of settings from enormous groups to small intimate numbers and is passionate about making yoga accessible to all. Nancy’s retreats offer a space to move, breathe, reset and reconnect leaving you restored, inspired, and with tools to take into everyday life.

You can find out more about Nancy from her website here.

Lila Conway

Lila is a certified Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and founder of Yoga Prema.

She has been practicing yoga for 20 years, teaching full-time since 2001, received advanced level certification from Sivananda in 2004 and in 2007 was given the blessing to teach yoga teachers as a principal teacher within the Sivananda Yoga Organisation.

Lila has spent the best part of eight years living in yoga ashrams and centres in India and Canada, being fully immersed in a yogic life of service, study, practice and teaching yoga to students from across the world.

Lila has trained extensively with various schools including Sivananda (Hatha, Raja, Karma, Jnana and Bhakti Yoga), Krishnamacharya (Vedic Chanting/Sanskrit) and Usha Devi (Iyengar Yoga). As a result of years of practice, study and embracing yoga as a way of life, Lila is inspired to share the wisdom and joy of yoga from the heart. Lila spends regular periods of time in India studying and deepening her own practice. She has a highly individual and sensitive approach which resonates deeply with her students.

Based in the South West of England, Lila teaches weekly yoga classes, workshops, meditation and yogic study courses, international yoga retreats and yoga teacher training in India, London and Italy.

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Belle Greenwood

Belle took up yoga 30 years ago, prompted by back pain as a teenager. Through regular practice she discovered a positive shift not only physically, but – like a bubble of oxygen rising up through turbulent waters – also in terms of clarity to choose the next best step forward.

Her desire to joyfully share this underpins her teaching since 2003 with formal teacher trainings including Yoga Therapy Diploma, Satyananda & Sivananda traditions, and extended study & travel in India.  Many years of Astanga Vinyasa, Iyengar & Scaravelli practice also inform her yoga journey.

For the past 15 years, Belle has lead retreats internationally, bringing both her skills in practice & her experience of global travel to create safe & positive spaces for transformational yoga experiences.

Through Yoga Therapy, Belle safely adapts practices for those with compromised health & for whom individual or small group classes are more appropriate. Her Satyananda training in classical teachings of asana, pranayama, mantra, meditation & Yoga Nidra continue to be a rich seam to mine, especially when the ability to practice dynamic asana is limited.

Since 2006, her London base is the lovely studios & home of Siobhan Davies Contemporary Dance, running weekly classes, workshops & 121 Yoga Therapy.

Mantra has been at the heart of 20 years of Buddhist practice & as a singer songwriter, Belle enjoys sharing voice, guitar & song on retreats & in class.

Belle is part French & shares her joie to vivre to help students enjoy a sustainable, ever-deepening & integrated yoga practice.

Shilpi Gupta

Shilpi grew up in a yoga-infused environment and culture, learning various aspects through osmosis and joyful yoga activities and has been practising for over a decade.

Shilpi trained and qualified as a teacher with Sampoorna Yoga. She has also completed further training in Yoga Nidra at Satyananda Yoga Centre and a hands-on assist training for yoga teachers. She teaches and leads workshops at various studios in London, including her own.

In a warm, welcoming and inclusive environment, Shilpi’s sessions are composed of Vinyasa flow, Hatha, Yin, Yoga Nidra, pranayama and guided meditations. Her vinyasa flows are energetic and uplifting; and the wholesome sessions energise the body and de-stress the mind through a traditional, structured process.

Her intention is that participants leave each class feeling refreshed and reunited in mind, body and spirit.

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Molly Harragin

Molly found yoga in 2009 in Bali. Not gym yoga but the kind of yoga that seeps deep into your bones.  It was a complete awakening, like seeing the world properly for the first time. She got a tattoo of Ganesh on her neck and things have never been the same.

Molly’s first yoga training was an intensive Jivamukti Yoga teacher training in Dorset which she followed with what she felt was a much needed year apprenticeship to establish the art of teaching. Jivamukti was very popular then so she was lucky to get work at yoga studios in London straight away and began slowly to teach on retreats around the world.

A few years later she did an 18 month yoga therapy diploma to learn more about working with people with injuries and illness. This changed her attitude towards yoga and she began to slow down her practice and respect the often much needed body’s innate healing capacities.

Since then Molly has taught and studied around the world taking courses in yoga nidra, thai yoga massage, EFT, yin yoga, and most currently an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regents University. Molly believes that yoga is much more than just movement. It is a science and a way of life that can keep you happy and healthy at all levels.

Amelia Hodge

Amelia has been on her yoga journey for the past 12 years. Her love of yoga led her to travel to Southern India to gain her Yoga Alliance 200hr Teacher Training Certification at the Sivananda ashram in Kerala, under the guidance of Swami Govindananda, Swami Tatwarupananda and Swami Nivedanananda.

Her Hatha Flow yoga will gently encourage you to explore your physical and mental capabilities, guiding you towards a deeper understanding of yoga and its philosophy. The atmosphere is authentic, relaxed, friendly and open for EVERY body to experience the incredible benefits of yoga.

She views the discipline of yoga as a vital element to learn more about our nature as human beings. Her teachings are infused with a meditative practice to transcend the mind. They deal mostly with body and breathing practices – guiding awareness to internal states and senses, incorporating meditative postures to encourage full observation, calmness and peace throughout – bringing attention to the more subtle and positive powers within to encourage creativity, intuition and contentment.

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Jaya Jaks

Jaya started practicing yoga in 1995 and has explored many styles since. She completed an intensive 9-month teacher training in Byron Bay in 2003 and taught at Brahmani Yoga (former Purple Valley) in India until 2008. Jaya now lives and works in London and Somerset and periodically leads retreats within the UK and abroad.

Jaya teaches a dynamic flow style that combines the integrity, precision and alignment of Iyengar with the movement and breath awareness of Vinyasa. Her most influential teachers include Glenn Ceresoli, Louisa Sear, Clive Sheridan and Martin Alyward.

Jaya’s technique tends to suit students of varying abilities, as they can be both calming and challenging. Most important, Jaya creates a safe and nurturing environment that encourages self-discovery and non-competitiveness. She is particularly skilled at one-on-one adjustments. As well as strengthening the body and increasing stamina and flexibility, Jaya’s teachings help create a more peaceful mind, a more open heart and a more grounded attitude, all of which can help no end in today’s hectic world.

Jaya is also a Yoga Therapist, certified to teach Hormone Yoga Therapy, Pregnancy Yoga, Yoga Nidra and Chakra Dance and is currently studying for a diploma in Transpersonal Integrative Psychotherapy. Find out more about Jaya here.

Pippa Johnson

Pippa was properly introduced to yoga at Theatre School in 2008 to support her dance training and found instant support from the physical and emotional benefits it provided. Having always had a passion for health, fitness and nutrition, she qualified as a fitness instructor which gave her greater understanding of anatomy and biomechanics of the body, subjects that continue to be of deep interest to her.

After several years developing a regular yoga practice, she graduated as a Yoga Teacher in 2014 and quickly became in demand for teaching work around her theatre performing career. Now (2025), with over 10,000 hours of teaching experience between classes, private tuition, workshops, and retreats, Pippa is acknowledged as a Senior Yoga Teacher due to her extensive level of teaching experience and training. She passionately shares teaching styles from Hatha-Raja Vinyasa, Yin, and Rocket, but most predominantly and passionately she is recognised as a Forrest Yoga teacher.

Pippa is also a Reformer Pilates instructor, Oxygen Advantage Coach, Reiki practitioner and Life Coach; renowned for her intuitive ability to help students through breath, movement, assisted bodywork or energetic engagement, she continues to support students in the greatest holistic capacity she can. Since 2020, Pippa has been a proud co-founder of an award winning wellness sanctuary in Hertfordshire, Cucumber Fields, where she hopes to share the varying, life-changing practices of Yoga with all students she comes to guide, whether at her studio or during a blissful YOAS retreat with you… Aho!

Nancy Lea

Nancy is a 500-hour E-RYT yoga teacher with more than 20 years of practice and ten years of teaching experience.

Based in Seattle, WA, Nancy teaches with intention, a sense of humor, and an open heart. Her classes offer students a balance of stability with fluidity, and alignment with ease. She teaches all the eight limbs of yoga, and each class is anchored to breath.

For Nancy, yoga infuses daily living with a sense of joy, wonderment, and peace. She encourages her students to move beyond their physical practice and to experience off the mat the self-love and awareness they have cultivated in their practice. Her teaching has been described as nourishing, clear, insightful and “a beautiful, peaceful practice that strengthens the body and calms the mind.”

In 2021, Nancy completed her 300-hour training with ISHTA Yoga (Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra, and Ayurveda), and she continues to practice and study with her teachers Yogiraj Alan Finger, Sarah Platt-Finger, Mona Anand, and Peter Ferko.

Nancy believes that our wisest teacher lies within our own hearts and guides us through the world with grace, compassion, kindness, and love. She humbly shares this sacred practice of yoga from a place of deep respect for and knowledge of the ancient teachings, her own teachers, and all the teachers that came before them.

Find out more about Nancy from her website here.

Ceri Lee

With over thirty years of personal practice and teaching since 2001, Ceri Lee is an experienced yoga teacher and yoga teacher trainer, offering yoga as a sacred path of balance, healing, and self-discovery. Rooted in traditional Hatha yoga and informed by training in Sivananda, Remedial Yoga, and Menopause Yoga, her teaching supports practitioners and aspiring teachers through all stages of life with depth and care.

Ceri’s slow Hatha flow is guided as a meditative journey, weaving conscious breath, mindful movement, and deep relaxation to cultivate harmony between body, mind, and spirit. Students are invited to move with presence, refine the foundations of practice, and reconnect with inner stillness.

As an attuned Reiki practitioner, Ceri also works with the subtle energy body, supporting balance, vitality, and natural harmony. On retreat, these teachings are fully explored through daily yoga, meditation, relaxation, and time to slow down, offering a nourishing space to reconnect, restore, and embody yoga as a way of life. You can find out more about Ceri from her website here.

Amy McDonald

Amy’s retreat teaching style – Jivamukti, Vinyasa flow, Yin

Originally from New Zealand and now based in Galway, Ireland, Amy first discovered yoga in 2005 while seeking more fulfilment beyond her background in physical fitness and the design industry. What began as a personal practice quickly became a calling, and she has been teaching since 2013. Amy is a yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer and yoga teacher mentor.

Amy’s teaching style is compassionate, hands-on, and deeply intentional. She weaves music, spoken word, yogic philosophy, pranayama, and meditation into her classes to create a space where students can genuinely grow, connect, and come home to themselves. Her focus on alignment, breath, and presence invites students into a practice that balances body, mind, and soul, while building strength and flexibility from the inside out.

A hallmark of Amy’s retreats is the multi-layered experience she creates for her students. Drawing on philosophy, meditation, pranayama, and the therapeutic use of essential oils, she crafts each retreat to nourish every dimension of the self, weaving together the physical, energetic, and spiritual aspects of yoga into something truly immersive.

Amy trained extensively in the Jivamukti Yoga method, completing 300 hours with Jivamukti New York and an 800-hour apprenticeship in London. She has also trained with Sampoorna Yoga India (yin), Norman Blair (yin), Shiva Rea (vinyasa), and Uma Dinsmore Tuli (pregnancy yoga) and has been leading international retreats for over a decade.

Kate McKenzie

Kate’s retreat teaching style – Creative flow, Restorative

Kate McKenzie has been practicing various forms of yoga all her adult life. She trained in Sivananda and Kundalini yoga and has continued to study flowing forms, Iyengar and Yin and Restorative Yoga.

She is passionate about creativity and well-being and her experience as a performer informs her approach. Her workshops aim to be both fun-filled and sacred, exploring the connection between breath, free movement, the poses, mantra, healing sound and the chakras to live with more inspiration, balance and self-awareness.

Kate has lead “Mantra Choirs” for fun singing. Other training includes massage, Reiki, First Nature voice, Indian Rag and Life Coaching.

Kate offers regular sound healing workshops. You can find out more about Kate from her website here.

Charlie Morgan

In 2011 Charlie decided to quit her job as a fashion buyer and embarked on a 7 month adventure around India to take some time out to source fabrics and trimmings with the view to starting her own textile business. Following a life-changing retreat to The Himalayan Yoga Institute, Charlie’s trip to an unplanned turn and she returned to the UK, via Bali, as a qualified yoga instructor. Since then, she has taught group classes at various top yoga centres and corporations in and around London, private one-to-ones and to professional athletes, including the Harlequins and England rugby teams and led multiple 200 hour teacher trainings.

Charlie has also travelled around the world sharing her love for yoga; at resorts, on yachts and at private villas and retreat centres. Charlie is also a life coach, and this is something that she integrates into all her classes and is incredibly passionate about.

Charlie’s classes are light hearted and fun – a playful, creative and forever changing style of dynamic Vinyasa Flow accompanied by uplifting tunes. Although Charlie’s flow classes can be challenging , she is a perfectionist when it comes to correct body alignment, the synchronisation of movement and breath, and the importance of a sumptuous, meditative relaxation to close.

The most important thing for Charlie is that all her classes are inclusive and accessible, maintaining the philosophy that ‘yoga is for all’. Charlie also teaches yin, pregnancy and yoga nidra.

Lisa Powell

Lisa’s retreat teaching style – Hatha Yoga, Slow Flow, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, Self Enquiry

Lisa Powell has been sharing the transformative practice of yoga since 2001. Over the years she has trained in a variety of styles including vinyasa flow, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, yoga therapy and tantra. Lisa creates a teaching approach that blends ancient yogic wisdom with a modern, accessible perspective.

Her retreats are thoughtfully designed around a meaningful theme, weaving together intention setting, mantra, mudra, visualisation, asana, pranayama, meditation, relaxation and journalling to help students reconnect with themselves on a deeper level.

Morning practices are designed to energise and awaken, often including self-enquiry, kriyas, breathwork, mindful movement, slow flow yoga and strength-building postures. Evening sessions focus on deep rest and release through pranayama, restorative or yin yoga, yoga nidra and meditation.

Lisa creates welcoming and inclusive spaces where everyone feels supported – whether you’re completely new to yoga or have been practising for years. Her teaching is rooted in kindness, non-judgement and acceptance, with the intention of helping each student develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their place in the world. If you’re craving time for yourself, space to breathe and an opportunity to reset, Lisa’s retreats offer exactly that.

Erin Prichard

Erin truly believes yoga is a profound and empowering practice of making oneself whole. She always has had an appetite for Eastern thought, human relationships, and a deep love of nature which can all be reflected in her teachings. She has been teaching yoga in London and internationally for more than 17 years and training teachers for the last seven.

She first started on the path of yoga with Ashtanga Vinyasa but over the years has studied and learnt from many different teachers, traditions and philosophies, including Hatha, Kripalu, Jivamukti, Iyengar, trauma informed yoga, yoga for the incarcerated, and yoga for people living with disabilities.

Over the last 17 years Erin has had the privilege to teach many people in different settings, including in primary and sen schools whilst working as a primary school teacher, lecturing at Imperial College on the Science of Yoga and Mindfulness, teaching female refugees in London and, for the last three years, in prison at HMP Wandsworth.

Erin’s main teaching style is Vinyasa Krama and Hatha yoga combined with a strong focus on philosophy and inclusivity. She encourages choice, exploration and curiosity on the mat. Her classes may touch upon current events, the nature around us, Buddhist principles, and karma yoga. When not on the mat, she can be found surfing, exploring nature or lying in a hammock.

Ayesha Sowani

Ayesha’s retreat teaching style – Vinyasa flow, Restorative, Yin, Pranayama

Ayesha Sowani is Indian and grew up in various countries across Asia. She first encountered yoga at a young age through her family and has been practicing ever since.

She trained as an upholsterer and found that yoga was a fantastic way to balance her mind and body for a physical job.

Her interests and belief in yoga as healing and grounding for both body and mind led her to want to further her understanding and knowledge of the subject in both theory and practice, leading her to her current training as a Integrative Yoga Therapist.

She is trained in many facets of yoga, from Yin and pranayama to pregnancy and postnatal expertise.

Expect a dynamic, grounded and energetic vinyasa practice underpinned with philosophy with modifications accessible to all levels, incorporating philosophy, asana and pranayama.

Lara Stapleton

“By the practice of meditation” the master said “you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise” Paramahansa Yogananda.

Lara Stapleton is a truly nurturing and attentive Scaravelli inspired and Hatha Yoga teacher with extensive training and a deep self-practice for over 20 years. This shines through in her teaching as she has a strong intuition of what is going on for each individual in a class. She cares deeply about her students, inspiring and supporting them to develop both on and off the mat.

Her style is gently powerful with special attention on the breath, allowing for growth in ones own internal awareness and awakening the spine, creating flowing wave-like movements and natural rhythms as well as working deeply from the ground up.

Her classes allow you to work profoundly from the inside out on individual areas of resistance, injury, deep emotional blockages and alignment with grace and softness. Lara puts her sensitivity as a teacher down to a strong one-on-one approach: “I’m able to adapt yoga to the individual rather than the individual to yoga”.

Lara’s philosophy and teachings are inspired by the spirit and practice of moving into stillness, to experience your true being. Her work and practice have been greatly enthused by her teacher John Stirk. Lara’s areas of speciality are spinal rehabilitation as well as being a trained Aromatherapist.

Rory Viggers

‘The breath is at the heart of practice. A good posture is when we can breathe well.’

Rory has a breadth and wealth of experience, inspired by many systems of hatha yoga, martial arts and radical minds. His extensive and ongoing study with one of the world’s leading and much revered asana teachers, Dona Holleman, continues to elevate and deeply enrich his practice, knowledge and teaching.

His in-depth classes seek to reconnect and harmonise body, mind and spirit. The foundation of his philosophy and teaching is rooted in awareness, breath, and an understanding of the physical and subtle bodies. He is passionate about yoga asana in terms of approach, application, technique, form and essence.

His classes deliver a deep and strong practice, and can seamlessly accommodate both those newer to yoga through to more long term practitioners and teachers. Rory believes we all have the capacity to find our still point, calm zone and true centre, whenever we desire. The aim of his classes is to navigate you there.

Nikki Wilkins

Nikki’s yoga journey began in 2011 simply trying to fix her knee after a visit to a physio revealed physical imbalances causing chronic pain. Many years of practise and teaching, yoga has not only helped to heal her knee but Nikki saw this as a path to discovering who we really are. Every aspect of her life was altered.

The body gets stronger, but there is a peeling of layers, a self study, a route to the core of who we are. Yoga is infinite self enquiry. The work on the mat reflects everything we do off the mat, everything in flux, impermanent, it’s a journey rooted in our connection to everything around us.

Nikki’s classes are personable, dynamic and fun. Inspired by Rocket and attended by a wide range of yogi’s: experienced to novices, she loves to break things down, find ways that work, help people to find their strength from within. It’s an exchange of information. Classes are seasoned with a sprinkle of yogic philosophy, poetry and beautiful readings from the hours she spends exploring books, podcasts and documentaries. One of the greatest joys of teaching on retreats has been the stories, deep connections and often life time friendships which develop between the group. It’s been life changing for all of us.

Nikki took her first teacher training in 2015 with Stewart Gilchrist. Since then, she has studied with Leslie Kaminoff, Richard Rosen, RocketBeats and most influential is her main teacher Marcus Veda, creator of 4 Beat yoga, a Rocket inspired practise where the breath is synchronised with music designed especially for the flow of the practise. Nikki loves to make her classes accessible for newer practitioners to Rocket although its not for complete beginners. Essential to Nikki’s retreats Pranayama and grounding evening yin followed by yoga nidra – a deep relaxation and journey through the body for the mind.

Nikki Lives in East London.