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About our Iyengar Yoga Teachers
All of our teachers are experienced, Iyengar yoga teachers. To qualify as an Iyengar yoga teacher requires many years of study and stringent examination. We also hand-pick teachers who we think are particularly good and the feedback we receive from our customers backs up our choices. We are confident you that you will be leaving us in good spirits, relaxed and rejuvenated.
Ros Bell
Ros Bell started attending yoga classes in Oxford, then visited India in 1977 to study with B.K.S. Iyengar. Ever since then, she has studied and taught Iyengar yoga, and has made return visits to India to study with the Iyengars.
She holds a Senior Intermediate Level 3 certificate and is one of the Uk's most experienced Iyengar yoga teacher trainers and assessors.
As well as running regular classes in London, Ros teaches at workshops and courses in the UK and overseas. She has published a popular book, Simple Yoga Techniques. Despite having taught for over thirty years, Ros loves teaching beginners as much as advanced students or yoga teachers.
Her classes reflect her knowledgeable and creative approach, with plenty of attention paid to the different needs of individuals. Besides teaching yoga, she works in management education and training, specialising in creativity and innovation.
Maggie Dix and Debbie Curran
Maggie and Deborah have worked together running yoga holidays and weekend retreats for the past five years. As well as being good friends they work really well as a team - one teaching while the other adjusts and assists.
Maggie has been practicing Iyengar Yoga for over 30 years and has been teaching for almost 20 years. She is a Junior Intermediate level 3 teacher, currently training for the Senior certificate. She has been to India and worked with the Iyengars in Pune and is always looking to improve not only her own yoga but her teaching too.
Deborah started her working life as a primary school teacher before discovering Iyengar yoga and has been practising for 18 years. She began teaching yoga classes 10 years ago and is qualified to Junior Intermediate level 2.
Maggie and Deborah's classes are well planned and they like to encourage students to work with precision in order to reach their full potential while being sensitive to personal needs and limitations. They enjoy working with total beginners as well as experienced students and they teach with clear instructions and safety in mind, but also like classes to be lively, fun and challenging.
Karen Dunne
Karen is a complete yoga enthusiast and an Iyengar devotee. This comes over in her teaching and in the way she shares the knowledge she has gained from studying regularly with some of the most senior teachers in the UK. Karen is committed to her own professional development and has recently passed her Level 3 of the Junior Intermediate Iyengar Certificate.
In 2008 she spent a month at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India and also participated in an intensive week with Geeta Iyengar in London in 2009.
Karen has a bubbly personality and your reward for working in her classes is to leave feeling well stretched, mentally quiet and having some of her passion for the subject rub off on you.
Sheila Haswell
Sheila has been teaching Iyengar Yoga for over 30 years. During that time she has visited the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune on 6 occasions, the most recent being in February 2011 and has attended classes with BKS Iyengar in London and Paris and both Geeta Iyengar’s visits to the UK .
Sheila is a senior teacher with a wealth of knowledge to give. She is chair of the Assessment and Teacher Training Committee, a sub committee of IYA(UK), and also has a place on the Executive committee (EX) of the IYA(UK).
Sheila co-owns a Yoga Centre in High Wycombe – the Sarva Iyengar Yoga Institute; and, when not teaching there, is in great demand teaching around the country. She has taught many Summer Schools and workshops. Sheila’s compassionate teaching style, depth of understanding and encouraging approach make her yoga events a not-to-be-missed experience.
Ally Hill
Ally founded the Sarva Iyengar Yoga Institute with Sheila Haswell in 2002. She passed her Introductory Teachers Certificate in 2004 and Intermediate Junior 1 in 2006. Ally has also studied with the Iyengar family in Pune , India , the most recently in February 2011, and both Geeta Iyengar’s visits to the UK . Ally is a member of the Executive Committee (EX) of the IYA(UK).
Ally works with Sheila at yoga events, as well as the remedial class and Introductory Teacher Training, which are held at their centre.
Sheila and Ally work as a team, one assisting whilst the other teachers on general level weeks and Ally works as Sheila’s assistant on Intermediate weeks. This way they can accommodate a range of experience levels, as there is always one of them on hand to help or to teach alternative asanas/postures.
Barbara Hicks
I've been teaching Iyengar Yoga since 1976 so this year marks my 36th year of teaching! I feel very fortunate to have started my practice so young - it certainly has sustained me in the many adventures of my life.
I completed my Junior Intermediate certificate last year (level 3), which enables me to teach a much broader range of asanas and work therapeutically with students. I teach in South London and also in Central London at the City Lit Institute. I have been to Pune twice to study with Mr. Iyengar in 1978 and 1981 (when I was pregnant with my first child!), and now that my family demands are less, I am hoping to return soon.
I have taught more than 30 yoga weeks/weekend courses and particularly enjoy teaching students on a daily basis. It gives both teacher and student the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of asana and pranayama practice.
A yoga holiday is not just R&R (Rest & Recreation), but R&R&R (Rest, Recreation and Recharging!) so that we return to our everyday lives ready to go!
Lydia Holmes & Edgar Stringer
Edgar and Lydia discovered Iyengar Yoga 20 years ago at Manchester University. Since then they have practised and studied yoga continuously in the UK and India, including visits to the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune. They have been teaching for 13 years and are training to become Senior level teachers.
Together they run
Yogatree
providing weekly classes, workshops and special events in N. Wiltshire. With young children and work as carers they find yoga the best way to maintain good health and balance in their family life.
Lydia and Edgar enjoy teaching and learning yoga. Their enthusiasm is reflected in their classes, which are lively, focused and rejuvenating. Yogatree students say they find Edgar and Lydia’s teaching styles distinct, yet complimentary. Their teaching experience enables them to respond appropriately to the needs of individuals in each group.
Kate Hailston
Kate has been practising Iyengar Yoga for over twelve years, and has been teaching for four. She has recently passed her junior intermediate level 2 certification. Kate lives in Battersea with her partner and two children. She has a background in Art and likes to be creative in her teaching. She is passionate about Yoga and the benefits and joy it can bring to her and her students. She believes Yoga has enhanced her life both physically and mentally, bringing her more confidence, self-esteem and ability to cope with life’s challenges. Kate’s classes are fluid, challenging, exciting and fun. Visit her
website
here.
‘Kate seems to successfully pitch sessions to embrace different ability levels. Her lessons are intense and accessible without being overwhelming or intimidating.’
Aidan Love
I have been practicing Iyengar Yoga since 1997. It was the first thing I had found that offered me tangible relief from a back problem I’d had since adolescence. I was also drawn to the incredible depth of understanding of the human body and mind contained within Iyengar’s teachings.
I passed my introductory level teaching certificate in 2006 and have taught various classes in London since. In early 2009 I moved to Istanbul and have been teaching regular classes at Istanbul's premiere yoga centre; 'Yogasala'. I hope to pass on to my students some of the fascinating things I have learned during the study of yoga and help them benefit from the amazing Iyengar system.
Hannah Lovegrove
Hannah Lovegrove teaches Iyengar Yoga classes in West Dorset, where she has lived and worked for 20 years. Following a strong family tradition (her sister Rachel is also an Iyengar Yoga teacher) she started practising in her early twenties and now, thirty years later, has a wealth of experience and passion to share with her students.Hannah is particularly interested in the long-term benefits of yoga practice, its ability to protect and heal the body, to improve steadiness and stability, and its capacity to develop awareness and intelligence on many levels. She encourages her students to weave yoga into their daily lives and so enhance their enjoyment and sense of well-being. Having run yoga holidays in Portugal, she is delighted to be teaching in Turkey for the first time. For more information about Hannah, please visit her
website
Aubrey Maasdorp
Aubrey has been practising Iyengar yoga for over 20 years and has been teaching for ten years. He holds a Junior Intermediate Level 2 teachers certificate. He is member of the teaching committee at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in London.
He has been to the Ramamani Iyengar Yoga Institute, Pune on a number of occasions to study with the Iyengar family, most recently in 2010. He attended many intensive yoga workshops with Geeta Iyengar including those on her trip to Johannesburg, South Africa in 2011. He studies regularly with senior teachers in the UK and visiting international teachers to maintain his professional development.
Aubrey has a wonderful personality, warm, with a lovely sense of humour. His teaching is clear and vibrant. He gives commitment and attention to every student in the room. He enjoys working with beginners as well as more experienced students. You will leave his classes feeling energised, challenged yet calm.
Aubrey also works as a freelance facilitator and trainer in management development and diversity.
Judy Waldman
Judy has been practising Iyengar Yoga for over 20 years and teaching for seven years. Yoga has been central in her life after helping her to recover from a back injury, and she found that it helps to calm a busy mind. She attends classes regularly with inspiring senior teachers and enjoys bringing new insights to her classes. She has attended month long retreats in India with the Chanchanis and with the Iyengars in Pune in 2009, and the Iyengar Convention in London led by Geeta Iyengar.
Judy’s style of teaching is encouraging and enthusiastic, and tailored to each individual's needs and abilities. She has a background in Art Psychotherapy and has observed in herself and others how yoga has an empowering effect on one’s emotional and mental state.
Her yoga practice has helped her to face life’s challenges by bringing body and mind to a place of calm and quiet. The yoga mat can be like a magic carpet bringing one to greater levels of self discovery, harmony and joy.
See
Judy's website
for more information.
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