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.

Sophie Corcoran

Pilates

Sophie genuinely loves to help people feel good and make positive lifestyle changes. Her classes are for all levels, ages and body types. She focuses on slow, controlled, mindful movements and she encourages you to take things at your own pace, and listen to your body. Learning when to challenge and when to rest. Every class works the whole body, building strength and improving flexibility.

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 Sophie 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.

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.

Annabel Fairlie

Pilates | Beginners Hatha Yoga | Open Flow

Half Australian and half Bristish Annabel's yoga journey started in beautiful Perth, Australia, where she learned the foundations in a stunning studio by the beach.

Yoga has been a constant companion during her time working as a Bosun on yachts, and she's been fortunate enough to deepen her practice in Bali, Europe, and the US, immersing herself in the global yoga community.

Her classes are all about adventure, fun, and positivity.

She loves encouraging her students to step out of their comfort zones and into their bodies, linking movement to breath while cultivating strength, power, and confidence. Every class ends with a blissful savasana, focused on cultivating powerful positivity and peace.

Lesley Phillips
Pilates

Lesley’s love of movement started young, participating in ballet and gymnastics, but hockey was her passion through and beyond school. Achieving coaching and umpiring certificates as well as provincial representation at different age groups, studying a Sport Psychology degree at university made sense.

While at university, Lesley gained her Sports Massage diploma and a new love was born. After completing her degree, she went on to study a further 2 years of Therapeutic Massage Therapy. This was put to use working on a cruise ship for 9 months before joining a chiropractic practice in South Africa for 3 years. With exposure to a variety of clients like athletes and desk workers, she gained experience in working with an array of conditions spanning the full body and different lifestyles.

Finding that she was frequently referring her clients for Pilates, Lesley was inspired to train as a mat work Pilates Instructor, so that she could better serve her clients by teaching them to address the root of some of their aches and pains. After 6 years as a massage therapist, it was time for a change of career due to increasingly aggravated eczema.

So after moving to England, it was time to put her knowledge of the body and muscles in particular to a different use and Lesley quickly qualified as a Personal Trainer. Having worked in popular gyms in London since 2015, teaching Pilates and other classes and training individual clients, Lesley decided to go freelance in 2019 and obtain her Reformer Pilates Qualification. Having found her passion for educating people in how their bodies move and why, and using Pilates principles as a foundation for more varied exercise formats to be performed safely and efficiently, she enjoys introducing absolute beginners to Pilates and transitioning Pilates die-hards from the studio to activities beyond the mat or reformer.

Sally Sharp
Pilates

Sally is a dedicated Pilates instructor with 8 years of experience, combining a strong background in dance and martial arts. With a foundation in movement and body awareness, Sally brings a supportive approach to Pilates, drawing on years of teaching karate and movement techniques. This blend of disciplines allows for a comprehensive understanding of strength, flexibility, and coordination, helping clients achieve their fitness goals with precision and care.

Join our mat Pilates class, designed for all levels of ability. With 8 years experience, you’ll receive instruction to improve strength, flexibility and posture in a supportive beginner friendly environment. Perfect for those new to Pilates or looking to refine their practice.

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.

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, grounded-ness and emphasis for students to listen to their own intuition - not only on the yoga mat.

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.

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.

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.

Amanda Glover
Yin Yoga | Restorative Yoga | Vinyasa Yoga | Sound Healing

Amanda started yoga teacher training with an Integrated Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda 200-hour in Costa Rica in 2011. Amanda deepened her skills with a 500-hour teacher training with Ruth White who was one of Iyengar’s students. Amanda went on to train with Anna Ashby in Restorative Yoga and trained with Norman Blair and then Sarah Lo in Yin Yoga. Amanda is also a qualified Sound Therapist.

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 finding a balance between effort and ease.

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.

Erika Shapiro
Vinyasa | Yin yoga | Restorative yoga

Erika is a Senior Yoga Teacher, registered with Yoga Alliance Professionals and Yoga Alliance. She teaches Vinyasa flow, Yin yoga, Restorative yoga, meditation and mindfulness in the context of group classes, private tuition, corporate workshops and well-being days and teacher trainings, for those wishing to embark on the path of teaching yoga.

Erika is passionate about sharing the power that a yoga and meditation practice can unleash within us, helping us live a healthier, fuller, more balanced and attuned life. Her yoga classes are non-dogmatic and encourage students to find their own way of practicing within their range of motion and ability. Her classes are challenging both physically and mentally, but at the same time accessible and inclusive. Erika is interested in sharing her love of yoga, meditation, mindfulness and Eastern Philosophy to facilitate clients learning and growing in their practice, under her experienced guidance.

Sneha Arora
Hatha Yoga | Pregnancy Yoga | Yoga Teacher Training

Sneha, hails from India, where she started her Yoga journey at a very young age at the oldest school of yoga, The Yoga Institute, India with a year-long Teacher Training course. She further continued her learnings at Hatha based Yoga Schools in India, like Sivananda, B.K.S Iyengar and others. Bhakti Yoga, Meditation and Therapeutics were an extended part of the learning and teaching. Having an international career as a Yoga Practitioner and Kiranteer in countries like Turkey, Bali, Hong Kong, North America and Dubai, she also conducts 200-Hour Yoga Teachers Training courses, Yoga Alliance accredited, in affiliation with The Yoga Institute.

Her class is filled with a wholesome experience at the physical, mental and emotional level.

With an expertise of teaching for 18 years, her classes are suitable for all levels accommodating a beginner as well as a seasoned yoga practitioner.

Daisy Guy
Hatha | Kundalini | Yin Yoga

Daisy has been teaching yoga since 2018, and is qualified in Hatha, Kundalini, and Yin Yoga. Her journey began 11 years ago when she was introduced to yogic practises to support wellbeing and change. Her teaching style is heart-led, creative, and inclusive; yoga can help us to better know ourselves and live life on life’s terms.

As well as teaching at studios in London, Daisy works in mental health, providing holistic therapies such as Breathwork, sound healing and OT led treatment plans. Her specialisms are in neurodivergence, addictions and complex mental health disorders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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