OUR TEACHERS
Genine Adam
Pilates
Genine's passion for Pilates has developed from a life long interest in exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle. She qualified 20 years ago in the Authentic Classical Pilates method in both mat and equipment training. Genine spent 6 years at the New York Pilates Studio in North London, the first authentic studio to open in the UK, where she taught many high profile clients. Her attention to detail and getting the best out of her clients was very well received. Following the birth of her first child, Genine developed a special interest in pre and post natal training. She sees Pilates as the definitive exercise technique, which can be adapted to suit individual needs, working the deep core muscles to correct posture, flattening the stomach, strengthening the back, assisting recovery after an injury and helping to re-balance the body after childbirth.
Genine takes her clients through custom programs built on the integrity of the classical technique, keeping them moving with the proper form to maximize the benefits from each session. Just as importantly, her exuberant personality and creativity keep sessions fun and fresh.
Valeria Amuzan
Pilates
Valeria was born in Romania and was a keen athlete in her teens, she excelled in running and she even won a silver medal for nationals. Then came to a crossroads and had to decide to take this further or go to university, she chose the latter and studied Russian/English literature in Bucharest University. After completing her studies Valeria moved to London and not long after her yoga journey began. Her instructor at the time was a big inspiration and served as catalyst for her to take one step further.
Valeria holds certificates in Vinyasa, Yin and Sculpt Yoga. She has a huge love for music so this is why she loves teaching Sculpt as she can combine movement with a great playlist.
Expect great energy and a sense of achievement from Valeria’s class.
Sarah Black
Yin Yang Yoga | Power flow
Sarah trained with Erin Prichard (200hrs)in Italy 2017, completed 500hrs in Rishikesh, India with Gyan Yog Breath school and is fresh out of graduation from a 300 hrs with Stewart Gilchrist (East London school of Yoga).
Sarah began her yoga journey in 2017, jumping at the chance to stay at an eco-farm in Umbria, Italy. The experience was truly the best of her life and allowed her to be the creator of her own classes and delve more into the eastern magic of philosophy.
Sarah began yoga for physical fitness but quickly learned that philosophy and realisation of the true self whilst being part of a chaotic world were the aspects of the practice that sustain her love and joy for it.
For Sarah, yoga is unification of mind body and breath. It is turning inwards to fine tune the thoughts to what is important. The practice of gratitude helps us accept times of challenge and live on a more even path. It inspires us to respond and react compassionately to inspire a more peaceful world.
Claire Chaitanya
Pregnancy Yoga
Claire (also known by her spiritual name, Chaitanya, having taken initiation into Karma Sannyasa through the Guru, Swami Satsangi from the Satyananda yoga tradition) has been practicing yoga since a young child born into the tradition. She has knowledge on many practices of meditation and yoga such as Iyengar yoga, hatha yoga, ashtanga, vinyasa, restorative and yin yoga.
Claire focuses on all aspects of yoga that suits the intention of the students as a group, complementing their workout and lifestyle goals. She also has diplomas in anatomy and physiology.
Sophie Corcoran
Pilates
Sophie started working in the health and fitness industry in 2000 and qualified as a Personal Trainer with the YMCA in 2003.
Her qualifications include Cardio Fitness and Weight Training, Nutrition and Weight Management, Group Circuit Classes and Exercise for the older adult.
Being exceptionally tall she knew that she needed to be aware of her posture and protect her back so In 2016 she qualified as a Stott Pilates teacher certified in matwork using small equipment such as flex bands and balls etc.
Additional Stott Pilates courses and workshops completed include: Postural Analysis, Pre and Post Natal on the Mat, Injuries and Special Populations.
Sophie genuinely loves to help people feel good and make positive lifestyle changes.
Natalie Cummings
Body Sculpting
Natalie has always loved yoga and hasn’t always been flexible. She is always practicing different drills and strengthening exercises to include in her sequences as well as deepening her own practice. She loves connecting with her students and encouraging them to their fullest and helping them to find balance on their mat as well as off their mat.
Many of Natalie’s students consider her as a ‘fun, active, bubbly, eccentric, full of life, positive, kind and quirky yoga teacher.”
If she's not teaching or practicing yoga, you’ll find her baking vegan cakes, or in Battersea Park hugging trees with her dog Rosie.
Boroka Denes
Online Himalayan Hatha
Boroka grew up in Transylvania, surrounded by forests and wildlife, where every human is directly connected to nature. From an early age, she developed her passion for outdoor activities, dynamic and healthy lifestyle.
Urged by the desire to help others, she graduated in Physiotherapy and shortly after she moved to UK, where she met her Yoga Master. Her yoga practice became more fulfilling, then anything she had done before. In order to deepen her understanding of yoga, Boroka has undertaken over 500h of training in UK and India with Yogi Ashokananda.
Every student has their own reason to practice, and Boroka believes that the big improvements happen by taking small steps. She wishes to support these small steps and faciliate her students to find the power within, as well as self love and care for others. She believes there is a hidden, great potential in every being and her mission is to help her students to uncover it through the yoga practice.
Belen Dominguez
Hatha Yoga | Hatha into Nidra | Pregnancy Yoga
Belén has a degree in Human Resources and began her path in Yoga looking for tools for her own emotional healing. There she consciously began a journey that she still continues to explore. Curious and a lover of knowledge, she continues to inquire, learn and experiment to share and expand what Yoga has meant and means to her. For 15 years she has been investigating more and more on this journey.
Belén is an accredited Senior Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance Professionals UK (E-RYT 500 hrs) and by the Yoga Alliance (RYT 500). In addition to being a Transpersonal Therapist and Transpersonal Facilitator of Women's Circles, she has carried out trainings in Yoga in Mental Health, Chair Yoga, Mandala Vinyasa, Prana Vinyasa, Yoga and Dementia, Yoga in palliative care, Meditation Teacher and her specializations in Trauma-Informed Yoga and Yoga Therapy for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress).
She has training in different styles of Yoga (Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative and Trauma Sensitive Yoga) combining these teachings with her knowledge in Transpersonal Therapist.
Her lineage is a combination of different teachers: Swami Sivananda, Shiva Rea, Richard Freedman, Kelly McGonial, Heather Mason, Judith Lasater, Tias Little, and Paul Grilley among others.
She has written articles on yoga and physical, mental and emotional well-being for online yoga platforms.
Sue Easton
Hatha Yoga | Functional Flexibility | Pregnancy Yoga | Mums & Babies
Sue Easton initially trained in Hatha yoga at Vyasa Singapore and taught Vinyasa, power flow and sculpt classes there for 8 years. She later qualified as a Flexibility Coach and Trapeze instructor with Lucas Rockwood at YogaBody Teachers College, Barcelona. She is also experienced in pre and post natal yoga and is a certified children’s yoga teacher. Her teaching has evolved over the years and her ‘Science of Stretching’™️, deep stretch flexibility sessions are what she is now most passionate about; bringing yoga to non-yogis and helping stiff bodies over 40!
Sue now lives in South West London, all her classes combine tailored, therapeutic sequencing with fun and friendly inspiration, given to help participants deepen and develop their own personal practice.
Attention is always given to breathwork, joints loosening, asanas with verbal cues and relaxation. This is done respectfully to suit students own individual needs, using props and adjustments (always with consent) to modify or advance postures where appropriate.
Her classes encourage and enthuse all students regardless of experience, to grow stronger, gain confidence and become more flexible and mobile in the their every day lives on and off the mat.
Ultimately she wishes them to experience less pain and injuries, feel more comfortable, balanced, happy and relaxed in themselves and be more able to do the things in life they love.
Amanda Glover
Yin/Yang Yoga | Yin | Candlelit Yin
Amanda started yoga teacher training with an Integrated Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda 200 hour in Costa Rica in 2011. Amanda deepen her skills with a 500 hour teacher training with Ruth White one of Iyengar’s students. Amanda went on to train with Anna Ashby in Restorative Yoga and trained with Norman Blair in Yin Yoga.
Over the years Amanda has explored many different styles such as Hatha, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Sivananda, Ashtanga, Jivamukti and Bikram. Amanda can adapt and tailor her teaching to a wide range of people with different requirements.
Amanda focuses on a mix of qualities such as alignment, balance, strength and at the same time keeping the postures soft.
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Sue Gregory
Power Yoga
Sue’s love of yoga began over 10 years ago, covering a variety of styles including Bikram, Ashtanga Vinyasa and Dharma Mittra. This love of the practice quickly developed into a desire to teach, leading to her undertaking a 200 hour Ashtanga Vinyasa training in London. 2 years later she took a further 500 hour advanced training with Anusara inspired teachers Suzanne Faith, Noah Maze and Nico Luce.
Her style of teaching has evolved over the years to one that encourages students to embrace and respect the physicality of the practice with a sense of mindfulness and attention to detail and breath. Her sequences are both strong and creative, with an emphasis on verbal cueing to ensure it translates well into student’s bodies and minds. She is respectful of the individuality of her students and encourages them to modify their practice to best suit them.
She is always and forever a student of the practice – continually inspired by other teachers, her students and family and friends.
Choi Kok
Restorative Yoga and Breathwork
Choi is a BWY Accredited Teacher and has practiced yoga for over 30 years and Vipassana meditation since 1998.
She has attended numerous silent meditation retreats in a monastic setting which have had a profound effect on her practice and teaching style. Choi believes that we can resist our overstimulated environment through conscious rest, seeing the world through the lens of our loving awareness, compassion, and empathy.
Mindfulness tools interplay in every class helping still the fluctuations of the mind, helping with disassociation disorders, and allowing one to be more present in the unfolding of each moment. She is passionate about honouring your unique individuality, teaches from a trauma informed perspective and welcomes a ‘less is more’ attitude to physical asana. Whereby we can all ‘pause for a moment’.
Shona Langridge
Hot Yoga
After working in the corporate sector for 25 years, she decided to branch into the world of yoga. She currently teaches a variety of yoga disciplines including: bikram, vinyasa, yin and pilates and have taught and practiced all over the world including Europe, USA and Australia.
She did her Bikram Teacher Training in Thailand in 2014 and since then have taught in Australia, UK and USA.
Yoga means different things to different people: To Shona, yoga has given her the gift of presence and awareness which in turn has transformed her relationships externally and internally. She would encourage anyone to use yoga as a beautiful tool to combine physical, mental, emotional and spiritual growth.
Andrew Lees
Power Yoga
Andrew stumbled across yoga by chance. While backpacking around the world he booked accommodation in what he later discovered was a yoga retreat – and never looked back.
He has always been a long-distance runner and finds many similarities between yoga and running: the meditative breathing, the internal focus and – in his case at least – the overcoming of challenges you set for yourself rather than competing with someone else. Movement and breath.
Andrew is a Chartered Accountant which he thinks goes some way to explaining his love for precise alignment. “Details matter…”
In each class he aims to achieve two things: a challenged body and a quiet, happy mind. He likes a practice where, when stepping off your mat, your body tells you it’s worked hard, but your mind has been floating on a cloud.
Patricia Leggatt
Rise and Shine Flow | Yoga Therapy | Sunrise Yoga
Patricia Leggatt, a seasoned Senior Teacher and Yoga Therapist with E-RYT 500 and CNHC credentials, is the visionary behind Lighthouse Yoga Therapy. In the 90s, she discovered Yoga, a transformative journey. It boosted her confidence, lifted her spirits, and enriched her relationships. Patricia aspired to become a yoga teacher, therapist, and Western Astrologer.
She holds certifications in Karuna Yoga (Iyengar Inspired), Vinyasa flow, Yin, Total Yoga Nidra, and Yoga HIIT. Patricia's Sunrise classes seamlessly blend mindful movement and breath awareness with the day's energy, drawing inspiration from yogic philosophy, modern science, and natural cycles. Her expertise lies in Lighthouse Yoga Therapy, specializing in chronic stress release through group and private sessions.
As a warm and intuitive Yoga Therapist and Western Astrologer, Patricia is devoted to Yoga's transformative potential and honoring our true selves. Her mission is to help individuals embrace their essence, fostering confidence, ease, and grace throughout life's seasons. Patricia's extensive experience includes hosting worldwide retreats, welcoming participants of all levels with open arms.
Gosia Malyszko
Online Pilates
From an early age Gosia had a passion for sports. Before her Pilates journey began, she has been teaching different types of classes like high intensity, step and circuits.
She discovered Pilates after a knee injury in 2011 and she fell in love with it straight after she took her first class. She decided to follow her new passion and acquired her Pilates teaching qualifications stage I and II in Poland and started teaching in UK after moving here in 2012. Gosia believes that one should never stop learning, which is why she continued her study and transitioned into Body Control Pilates teacher in UK. She also attends many workshops to keep up to date with all the latest news and research.
Gosia believes Pilates is for everyone, no matter the age or fitness level, and that it can make people feel better about themselves. Her goal is to make you understand how to connect with your body and be in control of it in everyday life, so you can live a healthy and pain-free life, feeling toned, powerful and confident. Gosia loves smooth transitions between exercises, so for the whole duration of the class you will feel as though you are flying from one position into the other.
Maria Mikalsen
Mindful Flow
Maria has always had a passion for movement and worked as a professional dancer before becoming a yoga teacher. She trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and Central School of Ballet in London and after graduating went on tour around the UK with Northern Ballet Theatre.
After falling in love with the yoga practice and the effects it had both physically and mentally, she decided to do her teacher training with Shanti Power Yoga. A month after completing the course, she started teaching regular classes and discovered a new passion about teaching.
She believes that by encouraging her students to breathe and ease into the more challenging postures on the mat, they will learn how to breathe and ease into the more challenging off the mat.
Zara Miranda
Yoga Flow and Meditation
Yoga was the doorway for Zara to find her true calling, her power, her ability to help others heal themselves.
Originally training in India in 2014, and then in Bali two years later to combine the best of Ashtanga and Vinyasa, over the last decade she has created classes that empower others to honour the uniqueness of their bodies.
Zara's classes not only make sense for beginners with clear direction, confident sequencing and a focus on alignment and breath, they offer a space for the more experienced yogi who wants to challenge themselves.
Zara has created a loyal following, offering classes with a spiritual tone, sprinkled with elemental magick and all delivered with a sense of humour, groundedness and emphasis for students to listen to their own intuition - not only on the yoga mat.
Alex Nathanson
Vinyasa and Beginners Yoga
Alex has played competitive sport his whole life. He was introduced to Yoga in Italy and was fascinated to discover a vigorous physical activity that didn’t involve competition.
Yoga helped him discover the power of synchronising breath and movement and how breath control (pranayama) could powerfully influence one’s mental state. This set him on a Yoga journey exploring the myriad options available in London. Initially drawn to a dynamic Ashtanga based practice, he has subsequently come to see all forms of good Yoga as paths leading to the same goal: a happier, quieter mind. Alex took his teaching training with The Power Yoga Company.
His classes are rooted in the Ashtanga practice of linking victorious breath to flowing movement. There will normally be music: an eclectic playlist that might go a little rogue. There will always be a strong emphasis on breathing mindfully, being in the moment and enjoying our ability to move (however much it may be that day) and then to be still.
Pauline O'Grady
Candlelit Yin & Sound Bath
Pauline is 500 hr trained yoga teacher having qualified with Yoga London for her 200 hours and advanced teacher training with The Yoga People, within Yoga and is qualified in the Art of Teaching One to One.
She has been practicing yoga for over 15 years and took her journey to become a Yoga Teacher when she fell completely in love with the journey, of the peace, direction and healing that it provided to her.
She is also an energy healer offering Angelic Reiki, Breathwork, Cacao Ceremonies, Sacred Circles and interweaves all that she knows into her teachings to leave people uplifted and truly connected to themselves.
Pauline loves to travel to deepen her knowledge in all that she practices which has included spending a month in Mexico to study Toltec Shamanism and to India where she completed her Advanced yoga teacher training in Mandala Vinyasa which connects to the elements and shamanism.
She teaches Restorative and yin, Mandala Vinyasa, Vinyasa Flow, Ashtanga Vinyasa and 1-1.
Kim Peacock
Mindful Flow
Kim’s passion for mindful movement started during her Performing Arts studies. Kim fell in love with Yoga and Meditation in 2002 as a result of a deepening connection to herself and life as a whole. She discovered the benefits of Yoga to be physically, mentally and energetically immense, therefore inspiring her to study to become a Yoga Teacher with The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in 2004. Kim has also studied with The Power Yoga Company London and continues her path as a student with various teachers from an array of traditions such as Vinyasa Flow, Hatha, Yin and Meditation. She is inspired by teachers such as Shiva Rea, Meghan Currie, Kathryn Budig and Tiffany Cruikshank.
Kim teaches from her heart within a warm and compassionate space, sharing her personal experience and passion for movement and mindfulness. She believes Yoga and Meditation should be accessible to everyone and her aim is to support you to live a mindful life, with clarity, calm and deep connection.
Sabina Ricci
Mindful Flow
Sabina’s passion for movement started early in her life, having studied ballet for many years from a very young age. She only found yoga in her late thirties and it was thanks to Ellie Redcliffe’s classes that she fell in love with the practice.
She realised there was so much more to yoga that just the physical exercise and, encouraged by Ellie, she decided to embark on a teacher training course in order to deepen her understanding of this discipline and improve her practice.
Sabina spent time in New York training with the incredibly inspirational teacher Dana Flynn amongst others at the Laughing Lotus Yoga Centre. A year later she left her job as a Physics teacher to share her passion for yoga with others by teaching full time. She has since taken a further 100 hour training course with Sianna Sherman and achieved her 300 hour advanced qualification studying with Shiva Rea.
She believes that yoga puts us in touch with our true self and helps us put things into perspective. Sabina’s classes are vinyasa classes in which the transitions between poses are as important as the poses themselves. Her classes are infused with positivity and a sense of humour and are suitable for all levels.
Arianna Santucci
Vinyasa
Arianna's love for yoga started a few years ago when she walked into a yoga class and completely fell in love with it. It wasn’t long before she started practicing every day and truly made it her life pursuit. She enjoys teaching others and helping them improve their practice and overall wellness.
Arianna is energetic, outgoing and happy to lead classes of all skill levels.
Maria Semianchova
Face Yoga
Maria is a certified face yoga and Gua Sha instructor. She will teach you the art of lifting, sculpting and de-puffing, using a combination of exercise, hands-on techniques, plus Gua sha massage and acupressure. Each workshop will focus on a different area of the face, discovering what processes are responsible for ageing and what can be done to slow down and even reverse these. You will see results immediately and learn practical skills to take with you into your daily life. And the best thing of all - you will find the techniques wonderfully relaxing! Because our face muscles are designed to express emotions (including difficult ones), learning to relax those muscles helps to let go of ‘baggage’ and feel lighter and more peaceful.
Damaris Terry
Power Flow | Vinyasa Flow
Damaris, also known as Dee. Is a 27-year-old Yoga teaches who is based in the south of London.
He has been a teaching Power/Vinyasa Yoga for 6 years now, his style is playful, sweaty with a lot of energy. His aim is to inspire and uplift his fellow yogis. Damaris loves to flip your world upside-down with inversions but also always makes his classes accessible for those newer to inversions.
Leanne Tessier-D'Silva
Flow | Yoga for ADHD
Leanne is a yoga, meditation and breathwork teacher based in South West London who specialises in delivering wellbeing sessions for companies, individuals seeking private yoga and yoga in healthcare and community settings
After the realisation that her previous work-life balance was unsustainable, she moved to full time teaching in 2018 focussing on the techniques that had already been supporting her in her practice.
Her trainings include Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin and Pre and Post Natal, Mindfulness and Trauma Sensitive Yoga. She has additionally trained with the Yoga in Healthcare Alliance to deliver their Yoga4Health programme.
Kaysha Thomas
Pilates
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Kaysha is a trauma-informed Nutritional Therapist, Pilates Teacher and eating disorder specialist. Kaysha’s first experiences with Pilates came from repeated injuries she had sustained through running in her early-20s. She noticed how Pilates not only helped her improve the strength and performance of her body but that it also improved her body awareness and appreciation.
Kaysha gained her Pilates certification through BASI Pilates UK. She believes that Pilates is for everybody and has developed a diversity and inclusion workshop for Yoga and Pilates teachers to help create inclusive classes for all bodies.
Kaysha’s approach to Pilates is centred around her passion for body liberation and using movement as a form of self-care. Her classes invite you to challenge yourself in a way that feels empowering and kind to your body. As someone who has a passion for the Pilates mat repertoire, Kaysha loves to break the moves down which in turn garners a deeper understanding of the moves and creates space for modifications to suit your individual needs.