Yoga Bananas™ Teacher Directory
Please note this is a new list of recently qualified students of the Yoga Bananas Technique™. This is not a list of teacher trainers. This list can be used amongst qualified teachers to share thoughts and ideas and discuss problems that may arise through your teaching. Teachers please remember I am always contactable too. If your enquiry regards Yoga Bananas Children's Yoga Teacher Training then contact Vicky Oliver RYT500 on 01372 459 400 or askvicky@yogabananas.com
All qualified teachers have agreed to donate £10 to Diabetes UK on behlalf of my son Callum for each new commission they receive.
Central London
Csaba Vinkler
Central London
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t: 07843750509
Yoga Bananas 2011, Gymnastics and Swimming Teacher
Danielle Valdar
Central London
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t: 07815 770 328
e: dandan519@hotmail.com
Yoga Bananas 2011, Full-time secondary school teacher at an inner-London school
Greater London
Alannah Macdonald
South London
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Sara Wood
Brixton
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Nicola Corbett
South London
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Siva Rajah
Hemel Hempstead
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Sarah Huxley
Kingston-Upon-Thames
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t: 07932 038 202
YogaBananas 2011, Child/Youth Specialist in International Development I have been involved in International Development work since 1999, working in Nepal, Uganda and the UK. The areas of my work focus on participation, education and protection. My aim is to use the life skills (creativity, strength and balance) that yoga offers children, in my work across the globe.
Anthony England
Chiswick
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Antonia Wise
South-West -London
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e: wiseantonia@mac.com
YogaBananas 2011, Yoga Teacher RYT 200, whYoga For Pregnancy Teacher Training 2011
Antonia has been searching for the elusive ‘dream job’ in the TV and Film industry and whilst she’d had some great jobs none of them had been quite the ‘dream’ she was after. She had been doing my yoga on and off for years and always felt wonderfully alive and balanced after every session. She thought ‘this is how I want to feel everyday’ so one day she woke up and looked for yoga teacher training courses and there it was! A few months later she was in Thailand living, breathing and learning yoga. She could see clearly how much yoga had to give so came back committed to teaching yoga. That was early 2011 and since then she has trained in the yoga bananas technique so that she can teach children’s yoga. She has also completed her pregnancy teacher training in August 2011 with Vicky Oliver at WhYoga which she is really excited about.
Helen Branch
South-East London
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e: helenmanley@optomen.com
YogaBananas 2011, Yoga Teacher RYT200 2009, whYoga For Pregnancy Teacher Training 2011
Marion Harding
South-West -London
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Barb Turk
North-West London
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t: 07902 187 621
YogaBananas 2010, Primary School Teacher, Founder Bookworm Yoga Barb has been working with children in and out of the primary classroom for more than 15 years, and has two primary-school-aged children of her own. Barb currently teaches nursery and leads the lower school yoga program at an independent school in Hampstead, Northwest London. She has a love of yoga that has been building for six years, leading her to train with Vicky and Yoga Bananas in early 2010. What a fantastic turn of events! After becoming completely inspired by Vicky and her program, and adding in her personal passion for children's literature, this year she launched Bookworm Yoga. Bookworm is children's yoga that combines great children's picture books with complimentary yoga poses for an engaging and dynamic class for children ages 3 to 7. If you're interested in learning more about Barb's program, drop her an email - she'd love to hear from you!
Emma Sykes
South-West London
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t: 07929783161
YogaBananas 2010, Freelance Costumier at the Royal Opera House -Covent Garden, Creative Arts Manager for a children's theatre company (Theatre for Life) - Hong Kong, RADA. Emma has always loved children and her background in drama and theatre means that she naturally brings a lively and fun energy into her yoga teaching, whilst maintaining and subtly incorporating the important qualities that yoga promotes. She is focused on nurturing a child's confidence and connection to inner self by encouraging them to free their creativity within a safe and disciplined environment. She believes that the YogaBananas way of teaching brings about a subtle, positive shift in a child's consciousness so that they are more aware of being kind to themselves and are able to extend this kindness outwards into the world. She also believes that yoga taught in this way is incredibly beneficial to any child and helps to let them develop under their own steam and develop into a more compassionate, loving and mindful human being. Emma is delighted to have the opportunity to teach yoga to children and also hopes to train further in India and Bali in the near future.
Sunnah Rose
North London
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t: 07941 321 772 e: sunnah@stretchingpeople.co.uk YogaBananas 2008, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Birth Teacher and Childbirth Educator. Qualified in 2001 with Saraswati Academy. Sunnah has studied under a variety of teachers since including Shiva Rea and Atma Vikasa. Sunnah has been teaching children's yoga since she qualified with Yoga Bananas in 2004, including one day workshops as part of Healthy Schools Week, weekly sessions for particular age ranges, kids’ clubs and morning breakfast clubs for a range of demographics including “excluded” children (those with social problems). For her own practice Sunnah attends a qualified yoga practitioner weekly, Mina Semyon.
Home Counties
Emma Stevens
Saffron Walden
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Helena Crismani
Haywards Heath
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t: 01825 719002
e: helena.crismani@gmail.com
Yoga Bananas 2011, Drug Education Lecturer
Vivian van der Zwaag
Surrey
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Rakhee Desoura
Middlesex
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t: 07723305717 Yoga Bananas 2011, pre-school teacher, mother Yoga came into my life five years ago as it helped me back into shape after having my third child and keeps me fit for the everyday challenges. Yoga has since inspired me and encouraged me to gain further interest by becoming a yoga teacher myself. I practice yoga with my young children and I can see an improvement with their holistic development, therefore decided to pursue my career in teaching children the benefits that yoga can bring into their lifes. I took up the Yoga Bananas course with Vicky who is a fantastic mentor and a lovely person.
Corinne Sellers
Buckinghamshire
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t: 07788 856 948 e: corinne.sellers@yahoo.co.uk Yoga Bananas 2011, British School of Yoga Teacher Training,Pre/Post Natal yoga teacher plus Advanced Stress Management qualification.
Johanna Andersson
Surrey
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t: 07807055858 YogaBananas 2010, Carer for Special Needs, Actress, BA Musical Theatre. Johanna Andersson's background is in musical theatre. She has over ten years experience working with children from nursery to primary school. Johanna also has extensive experience as a nanny and carer for special needs children. She was born and raised in the south of Sweden, moving to London in 2004 to continue her musical theatre career. Johanna started to practise yoga in 2005 and soon realised the unique amazing benefits Yoga had to offer. With Johanna's interest in children's development, health, theatre, dance and the unique benefits yoga brings, her passion is to share yoga and creative imagination with children, giving them a healthy and joyful ground to stand on for the coming years ahead.
Siva Rajah
Buckinghamshire
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t: 07932 038202 YogaBananas 2010, Carer for Special Needs, Actress, BA Musical Theatre.
Sarah Fishman
Buckinghamshire
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t: 01296 623543 YogaBananas 2010, Yoga Professionals 2008. Sarah qualified with Yoga Professionals Yoga Teachers Training Course in September 2008 (Register of Exercise Professionals Level 3) and then went on to complete the Yoga Bananas qualifications in January 2010. She enjoys teaching several adult weekly classes in Wendover, Buckinghamshire. Sarah is also a full time mother to three children and provides yoga classes for pre-school and primary school children.
Angie Beadle
Woking
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t: 07867 548 661 YogaBananas 2009, Introductory Iyengar Teacher cert. 2003, Quallified TESOL Teacher 2000, Young Learner's Specialist - Worldwide English School, Seville. Angie started yoga with her mother, at the age of 12 and in 2003 became the youngest person to gain her Iyengar Yoga Teaching Cert in the UK. She furthered her yoga practice with teachers in India, Nepal, New Zealand and Spain and then went on to open up her own yoga studio in Seville. Here she also taught children English, using movement, song and stories. She qualified as 'Young Learners Specialist' at Worldwide English School in 2005.
North
Jana Mulholland
Carlisle
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t: 07738207660 YogaBananas 2010, Relax Kids 2010, Tae Kwon-Do Instructor, CYQ Level 2 Fitness Instructor, BTEC Level 2 Nutrition Awareness Jana has started training in Tae Kwon-Do 10 years ago and has been teaching both children and adult classes for a few years now. While searching for another way to increase her flexibility, Jana came to her first yoga class 6 years ago. She has soon realized yoga had so much more to offer and was inspired by its countless benefits for both body and mind. Her passion for children's wellbeing has led her to take training in Relax Kids followed by Yoga Bananas Teacher Training. Her aim is to give children the best possible start in life, build their confidence and self worth. The aim of her teaching is to spread the joy that lies at the heart of yoga.
Marie Price
Sunderland
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t: 0191 525 1476
e: marieprice316@hotmail.com YogaBananas 2010, Yoga Teacher Training 2010
Joanne Hunter
Cleveleys
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Andrew Herd
Rochdale
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Bel Harvey
Derby
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Nikkola Woods
Yorkshire
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Tess Foster
Cheshire / South Manchester
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t: 07971 288397
YogaBananas 2009, Mother, RYT200 Teacher
Kay Whitney
Cheshire
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t: 07856225600
YogaBananas 2011, Aqua Instructor, Swimming Teacher
Kay has been practising yoga for over 8 years, and teaching children to swim for over 25 years. 'The Yoga Bananas course has allowed me to combine aspects of the two together and hopefully I will go forward and teach children to be creative, imaginative and to grow in confidence and in doing so it will also encourage me to develop my own imagination and creativity and to find my inner child.'
Mandy Tumilty
Sunderland
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Sandra Stenhouse
Cheshire
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t: 0161 9040305 / 07749184687
YogaBananas 2008, School Teacher, PE Specialist BEd Honours. Experienced in teaching Special needs, teach all curriculum areas and Yoga at the David Lewis School, Nr Alderley Edge, Cheshire and Pictor School Timperley. Currently attends 2 Yoga classes in Altrincham.
Sherry Edwards
Cheshire
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t: 07557121638
YogaBananas 2010, Yoga Teacher RYT500 Experienced in teaching Special needs, teach all curriculum areas and Yoga at the David Lewis School, Nr Alderley Edge, Cheshire and Pictor School Timperley. Currently attends 2 Yoga classes in Altrincham.
Midlands
Sandra Vallender
Gloucester
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Anneka Diaz
Staffordshire
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YogaBananas 2010, Teaching Assistant
Anneka trained with Yoga Bananas in 2010 and has set up classes in schools in her local area of Tamworth. Currently Anneka works as a TA in a secondary school working with children with special educational needs. She has practiced yoga for over 7 years. Anneka is happy to set up trial classes.
Joanna Black
Wolverhampton
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t: 01902 566 846, 07900 201 943
YogaBananas 2011, Primary School Teacher
Jo has practiced yoga for over 10 years and has always enjoyed the inner peace that yoga has provided her. While leading a busy life-style as a primary school teacher and a mother of three young children she is looking forward to combining her passion for yoga with her love of working with children, by setting up classes in schools.
Vicky Holmstock
Liverpool
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Lisa Perris
Nottingham
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Nikki Carter
Norwich
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Suzanne Meaden
Tewekesbury
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t: 07707 8918 24
e: gravityfitness@live.co.uk
w: http://www.gravityfitness.org
YogaBananas 2010, Yoga Teacher
Jane Jennings
Warwickshire
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t: 01675 464246 - 07811 480261
YogaBananas 2011.
Jane is also a relaxed birth and parenting teacher, doula, baby yoga/masage,bowen therapist. She is truely passionate about how our birth journey effects our childhood and how we can change those experience through the use of yoga, relaxation and the Bowen Technique.
Kirsty Mead
Lincoln
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t: 01400 275 133
w: http://www.rhubarbtheatre.co.uk
YogaBananas 2011, Children's Theatre Practitioner
Katarina Jennings
Leicester
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South East
Sharla Attala
Cantebury
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Ginny Haswell
Brighton And Hove
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Tessa Godbert
Alton
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Joanna Breeze
Leatherhead
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Sophia Jones
Southampton
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t: 02380 868183, 07976 353069
e: sophiajones@me.com or info@yogaworks.uk.net
w: http://www.yogaworks.uk.net
Yoga Bananas 2011, Yoga Teacher
Vicki Barker
Guildford
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Sarah Webb
Southampton
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Parmjit Sagoo
Nottingham
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Kerry Lacey
Surrey
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t: 07813 754212 Yoga Bananas 2011, CYS yoga teacher 2011 Kerry has been practising yoga for 20 years, and recently trained as a yoga teacher. She runs a small but busy landscaping company by day and by night. She is steadily building Yoga Mojo with firm roots to honour both adults and children. Her adult classes are mainly Hatha with some flow included and for children she is running after school / early morning clubs. Please see her web site for more details.
Anna Cronin
Brighton
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t: 01273 778537 or 07710 047987 e: anna.yogabananas@gmail.co.uk w: www.yogakids-brighton.co.uk YogaBananas 2011, Baby massage, Yoga Teacher, Montessori Early Years Teacher. Anna has practised yoga since she was in her 20s, and recommends yoga to whoever she can whenever she gets the chance! She studied Psychology and Education at Oxford Brookes University as a mature students when her 3 daughters were young children. She then trained as a Montessori Early Years teacher. In 1998 Anna took a change of direction by opening her own children's Performing Arts school as part of a well-respected franchise. This new direction was born out of her own frustrated aspirations to perform as a child but not being encouraged to, and the interest her own daughters were showing in performing. (And one is now a professional singer, dancer and actress) She was also very much drawn to the role that performing arts training plays in enabling children to gain valuable life skills and developing their confidence and self-esteem. In 2010 Anna felt the need for another new challenge and trained to teach Mother and Baby massage and yoga. She is now running classes in Brighton and Hove, and sees her Yoga Bananas training as a natural extension, enabling her to teach older children too. As someone whose whole adult life has focussed on children and their well-being, Anna is looking forward to continuing to support children in becoming the very best that they can be through yoga.
Laurence Turner
Reigate
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t: 01737 224 1581 YogaBananas 2009, whYoga for Pregnancy Course 2009, Yoga Teacher RYT500. Laurence qualified with whYoga Pregnancy Yoga Teachers Training Course in October 2009 and then went on to complete the YogaBananas qualifications in November 2009. Laurence is registered with the Yoga Alliance as an RYT500. She is now teaching several pregnancy weekly classes in Reigate and Redhill and teaches general Yoga weekly classes and monthly workshops under the www.yogamoo.com umbrella, her local Reigate Yoga company. She enjoys furthering her own training and travels regularly to London whether to enjoy Yoga workshops or Intensive Training Courses.
South West
Tina Toft
Ringwood
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Fay Thick
Somerset
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Katherine Farthing
Somerset
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Annie Lewis
devon
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Helen Smith
Yeovil, Somerset
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t: 01935 873192 YogaBananas 2010, Montessori Teacher
Sophie Bolton
Bristol
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t: 07903342652 YogaBananas 2010, Yoga Teacher, Creative Youth Leader, Performance Artist Sophie discovered yoga 13 years ago with Ashtanga teacher Gingi Lee and qualified as a Hatha Yoga teacher in 2009 with ‘Yoga from Within’ – a form of Hatha yoga inspired by the work of Heinz Grill, Sri Aurobindo and Rudolf Steiner. After working on a post Tsunami community project in Sri Lanka in 2010 where she taught yoga to a Kindergarden group, she returned with a strong focus and passion for sharing the benefits of yoga with children from 3 years and up. With Sophie’s natural sense of joy in life and lack of inhibition, she wishes to engage children in the imaginative art of yoga that she believes benefits a child to grow with positive strength and balance. In May 2010 she became certified to teach children with Vicky Oliver of Yoga Bananas and teaches children in Bristol.
Grace Collins
Reading
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t: 07944 287 341 e:gracecollins05@googlemail.com YogaBananas 2009, Professional, Baby Signing Instructor, Barefoot Books Ambassador, Mother. Grace completed her yoga teacher training in 1999 and has taught yoga to adults on and off, alongside a professional career in water engineering, in the UK, USA and Lebanon. For Grace, Yoga has always been part of a lifestyle rather than just a job. Since starting a family, and deciding to stay at home with her little one, she has been looking for ways to bring the essence of yoga to children. Back in June 2009 she came across Yoga Bananas and the training has been an enjoyable and fulfilling experience.
Daisy Dugmore
Bristol
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t: 07515020515 e: yogawithdaisy@googlemail.com YogaBananas 2009, Yoga Instructor RYT300, Secondary School Drama Teacher. Experienced in teaching schoolchildren, Daisy is extremely creative and energetic in all aspects of her teaching. Currently teaches at Yogasara and Bristol City Yoga Studio and various schools. Daisy attends a range of teachers for her practice.
Scotland
Polly Caldas Xavier Leaver
Galashiels, Scottish Borders
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t: 01896 752394 e: pollycx@hotmail.com w: www.yogafrog.co.uk (to be online soon!) Yoga Bananas 2011, Thai Yoga Massage 2009, Reiki 2009, B.A. Tourism and Hospitality - University of Vale do Itajai - Brazil I am Pollyana Caldas Xavier Leaver, I was born in 1984, Altonia, Brazil, and lived in Brazil untill 2007. After completing my studies at university I decided to travel. I travelled to New Zealand and lived there for 2 years (2007/2008). It was here that I really started to pratice yoga.It became something very important to me. In 2009 I went to Thailand for 3 months to learn Thai Yoga massage. After that I travelled to India for another 3 months where I did a short but usefull relaxing oil massage course. By mid 2009 I was in Scotland where my husband - Alistair (also a Yoga Instructor) - is from. Towards the end of 2009 I returned to Brazil with Alistair, where I did my Reiki course. In December we found out that I was pregnant. We stayed in Brazil until June 2010 and the plan was to come to Scotland to have Elijah, my son (whom by the way decided to be borne in Amiens, France 2 months premature - We stopped there for four days that became almost a month!) Now my family and I live in Galashiels, Scottish Borders, practising Yoga and staying close to our Scottish relatives.
Esmerelda Lopez
Edinburgh
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Sarah White
Dumfries and Galloway
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Alexa Aitken
Edinburgh
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t: 07527085439 YogaBananas 2010, Primary School Teacher Alexa has worked with children for over six years, teaching many age groups and in different countries. She has taught English Language and, more recently, she has loved having her own class as a primary teacher. Through this, she has been able to teach yoga and this has been a very fulfilling experience in being able to help the children find a connection with themselves, relax and have a lot of fun in the process. She is an enthusiastic, confident and open person with an ability to be able to truly relate to children. She would be delighted to teach a group of children in Edinburgh at the weekends or in school holidays.
Sasha Ezzi
Glasgow
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t: 07760 885 724 w: www.shantiyogaglasgow.co.uk YogaBananas 2009, whYoga for Pregnancy Course 2009, Trained in Mandrem, India with Tribe Yoga in 2008. Sasha has practised yoga for nine years. She has been teaching Ashtanga yoga in different parts of the world ever since. She has now settled in Glasgow and is busy trying to establish herself with her general classes and private tuitions. She completed the Yoga Bananas course in Aug 2009 and also works every afternoon with young children in an after school club where she teaches children's yoga. In addition to this, she completed the pregnancy course in Sep 2009 and has started prenatal classes in Glasgow.
Ireland
Wales
Suzanne Chapple
Swansea
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Overseas
Christine Curtis
Spain
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Aamina Riaz
Lahore, Pakistan
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Yoga Bananas 2011, organic farming and yoga teacher Aamina's journey in yoga dates back 10 years. Starting as a complete beginner who took up yoga whilst living in Canada, yoga seemed purely physical exercise complementing her near fanatical regime of hours spent on latin / ballroom dance technique, biking, walking, and playing the drums. Over time, through experimentation with different teachers in different countries and a very strong interest in sufi spirituality, she started to understand the spiritual benefits. Now, yoga is life. Aamina, a corporate financier for the past 15 years. She has only recently resigned from corporate life to pursue her interest in organic farming and in sharing the benefits of yoga. She trained asa certified yoga Kripalu yoga teacher from Kripalu (www.kripalu.org), near Boston, US in June 2010. Subsequently, Aamina volunteered yoga for 3 months in Pakistan and then once a week at PricewaterhouseCoopers, her workplace in London, UK. In January 2011, Aamina also qualified as a Yoga Bananas teacher, learning techniques that she feels can also be very beneficial whilst teaching adults. Aamina, a Pakistani Canadian, is now based in Lahore, Pakistan where she is teaching yoga to a diverse population.
Julie Nolan
Milan, Italy
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t: 39 393 916 3699
YogaBananas 2009, Currently taking Yoga Teacher Training Course. Julie originally trained as a Sports Therapist specialising in Swedish, Sports and Aromatherapy massage. She also has Reiki 1. After moving to Italy, becoming a PA and joining the Milan 'Rat Race', Julie turned to yoga and has since never looked back. Julie plans to become a qualified RYT200 by the end of 2009 and take her Reiki II. She currently practices yoga 4 times a week.
Maria Grigkoudi
Thessalonika, Greece
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Yoga Bananas 2011, RYS 2011, Occupational Therapist, MSC in Human Performance and Health, Reiki master teacher. I was born in Thessaloniki city in Greece. I ve studied Occupational Therapy University School and after that I obtained my MSC degree in "human performance and health" in Aristotele University of Thessaloniki-Deparment of Physical Education. I daily work with elderly people in an open community center, and I also work with children with mental problems and other difficulties or developmental challenges. Also I give rehabilitation advice to adults suffering from orthopaedic problems or occurred hemiplegia, spinal cord injuries or other chronic diseases. I can say now that I am a children's yoga teacher, and I will soon be qualified to teach adult yoga too (RYT200).
Channel Islands
Emma Colston-Weeks
Jersey
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Jennifer Moore
Jersey
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Emma Despres
Guernsey
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t: 01481254387 YogaBananas 2008, whYoga for Pregnancy Course 2008, Yoga Teacher RYT200. Emma qualified with Yoga Bananas in July 2008 and then went on to complete the whYoga Pre and Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training Course. Emma is registered with the Yoga Alliance as an RYT200. Qualified with INSPYA in Byron Bay, Australia in November 2005. Emma frequently travels off the Island for workshops in Edinburgh and London, plus she spends a few months each year in Nepal furthering her practise. She is influenced by Vinyasa hatha yoga and her principal inspirations areEmil Wendel and Devika Gurung.
