Katy Appleton - Founder & Director of appleyoga

Founder and Director of appleyoga, Katy Appleton has been practising yoga since 1995 and has taught internationally as a registered teacher (E-RYT 200 level) with the Yoga Alliance since 1999. Originally a soloist ballet dancer, she danced across the world with the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet, complimenting her dance career with the power of yoga's movements, breathing and relaxation techniques. This background as a dancer gives her an extraordinary vision into how bodies move and influences her understanding of posture, alignment and energetic flow. Her integrated teaching style involves an eclectic mix of dynamic vinyasa, bhakti yoga, (the heart essence path), structured alignment, philosophy, mantra, sufi poetry and wicked musical vibes. Katy has studied many different styles with some of the world's leading practitioners, and draws on these experiences to teach her own form of yoga, known worldwide as appleyoga. The appleyoga brand has published several yoga books and five bestselling DVDs by Katy and she also appears regularly on Sky TV. Katy famously instructed Geri Halliwell in her yoga transformation in 2003. They created the best selling yoga DVD 'Geri Yoga', which broke worldwide sales records of over half a million copies and continues to hold the title of best selling fitness video of all time. About appleyoga appleyoga was established in 2000 by Katy and offers expert yoga tuition throughout London and retreats worldwide, all with outstanding yoga teachers. Katy personally hand-picks all her teachers because of their spirit, integrity and understanding of yoga, so that they inspire everyone they teach with clarity of mind and rejuvenation of body to effect a transformation in everyday life. Katy is delighted to launch the appleyoga teacher training course and looks forward to empowering trainees on this journey of self discovery, responsibility & transformation.