 | Katrina Repka 28 Jan - 5 Feb 2012, India
Yoga Master Katrina Repka has been studying and teaching yoga since 1992. She has co-authored two books: Chakra Yoga: Balancing Energy for Physical, Spiritual, and Mental Well-being, and Breathing Space: 12 Lessons for the Modern Woman. She also writes for Yoga Magazine and has a weekly column in Metro newspapers worldwide. Katrina has recently been featured in magazines and newspapers such as Elle, Vogue, Tatler, the Guardian and the Telegraph, and as a yoga expert on BBC radio and television. She is also a board member of the Life Centre Teacher Training Programme and the head of ISHTA Teacher Trainings in Canada and Europe.
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 | Sophie Coats 18 - 25 March Spain
Over the years Sophie has practiced differing styles of yoga Ashtanga, Sivananda, BKS Iyengar and studied with various teachers. In 1999 she studied yoga with Cat de Rham. In 2006 she attended her first Anusara workshop and from that moment on dedicated her practice to Anusara yoga. In early 2010 Sophie completed a Yoga Teacher Training with Bridget Woods Kramer, Ananda Leone and Carlos Pomeda in Bali, Indonesia. |
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 | James Giuseppi fitscape ski, fitness and yoga 24 - 31 March 2012 - Italian Dolomites James was working as a trader in the City in '95 when he discovered that yoga could relieve chronic back pain and assist in calming a restless mind. He had completed one teacher training course with Sivananda in 2002 when he was thankfully made redundant and began teaching full-time. The decade of City life gave him an invaluable understanding of the challenges of working in high-pressure environments. During the following five years he also gained Yoga Alliance certification and taught in yoga centres and health clubs across London as well as organising his own classes and yoga holidays. In 2006 he went to India for six months' intensive study of Astanga in Mysore and trained with Sri K Pattabhi Jois. James' teaching style is an amalgamation of the wide range of yoga instruction he has personally experienced and his classes are accessible to all whilst he tailors each session to the individual needs and abilities of his students. |
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 | Jean Hall Easter: 31 March - 7 April, Portugal A life long lover of movement, expression and creativity Jean spent most of her childhood and early adult years dancing and running! Discovering yoga whilst training as a dancer she began to incorporate it into her life and later career as a professional performer. In 1995 she qualified as a Iyengar yoga teacher and since then she has continued to study different forms of yoga with many great teachers including Geeta Iyengar and Sri K Pattahbi Jois, as well as being self taught and working with more unconventional teachers such as John Stirk and Paddy McGrath. Jean teaches a deep dynamic slow flow form of yoga. She is known for her unique ability to draw students and teachers beyond limitations and closer to their true potential and confidence through the ancient yogic system of asanas, mindful breathing and meditation with an approach of devotion and playfulness. |
 | | Emma Henry 4 - 11 May, Spain Emma is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti yoga teacher and trained as a ballet dancer from age 11. She has danced professionally around the world specialising in classical, contemporary dance and martial arts and while dancing professionally Emma found the benefits of yoga practice enhanced her flexibility, strength, balance and focus. Her continuing education is shared with all of her students through her love of yogic texts and her amazing chanting. All of her classes include an inspiring sound track and a lot of laughter. Her goal is to create a space for practitioners to feel inspired, nurtured and uplifted.
She has hosted yoga workshops and retreats around the world with many happy yogis returning for more year after year. | | |  | Heather Elton 12 - 19 May, France & 9 - 16 August, Italy Heather began Hatha Yoga in Canada in 1986. She has taught Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Dynamic Flow Yoga in London and on international retreats since 2004. Her teaching style integrates yoga philosophy with breath and asana to reveal the spiritual path underlying the practice and the technology to stabilize the mind, so we can liberate ourselves from suffering. Heather's approach is a deep physical and psychological practice that moves beyond a mere physical experience to make the yogic inquiry authentic and relevant to real life. Heather is certified at the highest level with the Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500) and offers Yoga Teacher Training in Goa. | |  | Laura Gilmore
3- 10 June, Spain Laura's yoga journey started some 22 years ago, with a soul searching visit to India, followed by Iyengar yoga classes whilst at university. Over the years Laura has sought out well respected teachers from across the globe - regardless of their yoga %u201Cdenomination%u201D. From this tireless study and practice Laura has developed her own practice and teaching methods to offer her students a full and comprehensive practice of yoga.
For Laura the yoga is not simply about mastering (or struggling with postures), but about discovering more about ourselves- our bodies, our minds and our emotions. From taking the chance to really look within during our practice, we are able to live more intelligently and with more light, warmth and humour!
Laura Gilmore has taught yoga for 10 years now, initially in Wales, and then in London- classes at Triyoga, and for private clients. She now lives with her son in Bristol, where she is Director of Bristol City Yoga and co-teaches the Teacher training programme. | | | |
|  | | | Isaac Mullins 7 - 14 July, Crete Isaac began practicing Ashtanga Yoga 13 years ago, initially only to complement his career as a dancer with companies including the English National ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Spanish National Ballet. At 23 his desire to pursue yoga overtook his desire to dance, prompting him to train as a teacher. He has travelled extensively in India, studying many styles including Ashtanga, Sivananda and Iyengar. He has been lucky enough to learn from many great teachers including Richard Freeman, David Svenson, Liz Lark, Padma Nair, Gusta (Shunya) and many more. Isaac is qualified with the British wheel of Yoga and is certified by the Yoga Alliance. | |
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 | Liz Lark 2 - 9 August, Italy Liz Lark has been teaching yoga since 1990's, training first with the British Wheel of Yoga. Absorbed in the health & balance of the bodymind through alignment, gesture, breathing, sequencing and relaxation her inspiration comes from the series of Astanga Vinyasa tradition and other Hatha yoga practises including yoga nidra (deep relaxation). Liz adapts yoga postures for each individual in order to chisel' into the form and help to sculpt and free each unique body. Workshops with leading teachers including Richard Freeman and Rod Stryker at The Life Centre London have inspired Liz to explore the unfolding journey into the liberating simplicity and spaciousness that Yoga brings. She is a board member for The Life Centre Teachers Training Course, and runs retreats and workshops nationally and internationally. Liz holds a BA & MA 3d design & Performing arts, elements of which she weaves into her teaching to draw on the body as a moving metaphor and an alchemical vessel for constant renewal. | |
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 | Sophie Lewis
24 September - 1 October, Italy Sophie's experience and practice of yoga has been built over 10 years, with a broad range of teachers of dynamic hatha flow and steady, meditative posture. She is fully qualified with Registered Yoga Alliance, having trained in India and London. She teaches strong, safe alignment to build flexibility and strength conditioning equally, encouraging breath awareness to focus body and mind harmony and dismantle old patterns. Specializing in yoga for triathletes and athletes, she has developed a unique yoga programme to benefit sports. Excercising with awareness to improve the wellbeing of all students, she believes yoga can have transforming results beyond the mat. |
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 | Erika Tourell Erika, who has been practicing yoga for 18 years, uses a variety of styles which integrate her experience of Iyengar, Astanga, Yin/Yang, Kundalini and Restorative yoga, emphasizing awareness of mind, body and breath whilst focusing on correct alignment. Erika believes that, while yoga does make our bodies stronger and more flexible, yoga's greatest gifts lie in helping us to heal on the inside by helping our minds to become more peaceful and by opening our hearts to grace. She aims to provide a safe, nurturing environment to allow her students to develop their own understanding of yoga in an enjoyable way. | |
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 | Graham Burns
My yoga teaching is non-dogmatic and reflects the variety of styles which I have studied over the years. My earliest teachers included well known UK teachers Simon Low and Liz Lark, and my relaxed, flowing asana style draws extensively both on their influence and on my studies of the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition. I try to keep classes creatively and imaginatively sequenced, with an eye on their energetic as well as physical effects. Pranayama (breathing) and meditation are integral parts of my yoga practice and most of my classes include these as well as asana (postures). | |
 | Kate Harrell I discovered yoga in 1998 whilst doing a double degree in eastern philosophy and drama in New York. It was my own way of connecting to an inner sense of peace and happiness, stillness and silence. I started yoga weak and inflexible, so have been on a long journey of exploration, development, humility and patience which I bring to my teaching! I was originally certified by tripsichore yoga theatre, but went on to find my true teacher, Max Strom, and complete his advanced teacher training in California. I focus on the synchronisation of breath and movement to find that inner state of bliss, emphasising a non-competitive, non-dogmatic approach. My classes are dynamic, strong, flowing and meditative, with a sense of humour and fun. I borrow from many styles, including astanga, sivananada, iyengar and tripsichore to create a heart-based, breath-centred flow. All levels are catered for, as I offer options constantly. I believe strongly that yoga helps us to free our hearts and quiet our minds. I teach workshops and retreats worldwide, and regular classes all over London. | |
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 | Lizzie Gilchrist After a chance introduction to yoga whilst at school during 1993-94, Lizzie has continually been drawn to the practice for the feeling of calm, strength, spaciousness it gives and its quietly transformative power. She believes yoga is a wonderful, life affirming practice and a healing tonic to the potential head led busy-ness and disconnection of everyday life in the western world .Having explored many different schools of yoga, Lizzie now practices and teaches a slow flowing style in the main, emphasizing breath and awareness with the intention of bringing mind, body & spirit back into balance. Her classes combine strength with gentleness and movement with stillness. She aims to give people the space to have their own experience and to see that they are their own best teacher. |
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