 Katy Appleton trained as a ballet dancer from an early age with the Royal Ballet School and English National Ballet School and then spent eight years dancing professionally around the world, with some of the major ballet companies...
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 Lisa Askem is a wonderfully warm woman with a sense of gentle power about her. She is a highly accomplished teacher with 15 years teaching experience and has undergone extensive training with the British Wheel of Yoga. Lisa does not teach in a particular style rather she has melted aspects of Iyengar, Ashtanga, Saravelli and sprinkled in a little inspiration from her training with Shiva Rea ...
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 "My approach to Hatha Yoga is that of a very expressive and creative practice, emphasizing the importance of listening to the flowing qualities of the breath..."
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 After completing a sports degree in 1989 Tim worked as a fitness instructor at Champneys health club before embarking on a career in osteopathy.
Tim began practising yoga in 1993 to deepen his understanding of the body and co-authored the book "Healing Yoga" in 2005.
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 While I was training at dance school, a report in my second year recommended that I start Pilates to help my hypermobility and deal with the injuries I was incurring. I found a studio nearby and after a while became addicted to the feeling of strength and suppleness that Pilates was giving me.
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 Having spent my childhood training extensively for competitive sports, I found myself with lower back problems from a very young age. After unsuccesfully trying chiropractors and osteopaths, a friend suggested yoga. The change in my physical body was incredible, and I haven't had any lower back complaints since.
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 "My first ever yoga class was some 12 years ago and I had no idea what I was in for!... I left an hour and a half later physically and mentally in pieces which was more than a little unsettling but the experience had left it's mark and every week without fail I schleped across london in the rain to get to my class and became more and more intrigued as the yoga worked its magic..."
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 "After dancing all my life, and a brief but very hectic career in the world of performing arts...not only did i need something to continue to satisfy my body's physical needs, but also something to ground and centre myself mentally and emotionally.. I found Yoga... or yoga found me..."
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 Lizzie experienced her first yoga class while earning a living as a creative director in interactive design over 10 years ago. Living abroad since 2001 in the Netherlands, Austria and Kosovo, it was in Amsterdam that she came into contact with the Iyengar and Astanga yoga methods and became a devoted yoga practitioner.
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 "I first came to yoga nearly 10 years ago while doing a double degree in drama and eastern philosophy at university in New York. It was my own way of connecting to an inner sense of peace and happiness, stillness and silence. I started yoga completely weak and inflexible, so have been on a long journey of exploration, development, humility and patience which I bring to my teaching!"
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 "Emma was born in Cambridge and went to ballet school before starting her career as a professional dancer. Emma initially started practicing yoga to complement her contemporary & classical dancing, and martial arts training..."
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 "I was drawn to my first Hatha yoga class through a desire to make my body stronger for longer periods of sitting meditation..."
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 Dolly Parton was my first yoga teacher, though I don't think she knows. It took her a few years to get my attention...
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 "I spent most of my childhood doing gymnastics and dreaming of being in the Olympics as I loved it so much. Then my family and I moved to Quito, Ecuador, which is an inspiring country but sadly for me there was no gymnastics so the Olympic dream stopped there..."
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 "I began my yoga studies in 1995. Having studied many forms of hatha yoga, I finally found my home in Anusara yoga (which means flowing with grace). I am an affiliated Anusara teacher, having studied with John Friend (founder of Anusara yoga) and then extensively with certified Anusara teacher, Sarahjoy Marsh in Portland, Oregon. I am a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance..."
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 "Yoga first found me 10 years ago and after a very crazy but wildly enjoyable career in the music industry, it simply became too big for me to keep as a personal practice. India had been calling for years and in 2005 at the end of my tether with London and my career, I answered the call and left everything to go and train to teach."
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 "During a sabbatical year from my work as a political and social researcher my yoga teacher suggested I take the teacher training course at the Sivananda ashram in India. Since then there's been no going back. I spent the year after that travelling, teaching free classes to anyone who was willing to be taught on beaches, or wherever I happened to be..."
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