Allie is the founder of yogahaven and director of the yogahaven teacher training course. Initially certified in Bikram Yoga, she taught in yoga studios around the world before returning to the UK to open her first studio, yogahaven in Brighton, in 2003. She now has four studios in the UK - including two here in London. Allie has taught yoga to a broad market of clients, including two years teaching for the premier league football team Aston Villa, and currently works with Tottenham Hotspur. As well as yoga her more recent passion is running...she just completed the Virgin London marathon and is set on completing many more. Allie teaches hot yoga and hot flow classes at both the Clapham and Islington yogahaven studios - which offer a full schedule of heated yoga classes 7... Read the profile >>
Kari is a multi-talented Fitness Instructor. She was trained by top professionals in the industry while living in Toronto, Canada. She brings to the UK her 14 years of teaching experience. Kari has a full-time job in media sales alongside her fitness classes, showing the importance of a healthy work/life balance. She believes that fitness adds years to your life and life to your years. She is an avid off-piste downhill skier & tennis player, and believes in the importance of cross-fit training. Her classes are challenging but highly energetic. Come join in the fun! Kari teaches: Spinning®, Sculpt/Conditioning, Athletic Yoga/Stretch, Box-Fit, Reformer Pilates, TRX. Sweat it out with Kari at: - Gym Box Covent Garden (gymbox.co.uk) - Body Works West... Read the profile >>
Katy Appleton enjoyed a 10 year career as a dancer before devoting herself completely to yoga. She danced across the world with the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet, complimenting her dance career with the power of yoga's movements, breathing and relaxation techniques. Katy qualified to teach yoga in 1998, after studying many different styles with some of the world’s leading practitioners. Katy draws on her experiences to teach her own form of yoga, known worldwide as appleyoga. The appleyoga brand has published several yoga books and five bestselling DVDs by Katy, she also appears regularly on Sky TV. Here is Katy's class schedule, at three different studios, so you can join her on the mat some time soon... Triyoga Chelsea: Tuesdays @ 2:15- 3:45pm -... Read the profile >>
yogahaven (Clapham & Islington)
Krystal was introduced to yoga twelve years ago whilst studying Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medical system, and meditation in Kerala on the coast of South-West India. Her background is in personal training, sports massage and herbal medicine. However since those beautiful, hot Indian days, yoga has played an increasingly big part of her life. After developing a love for practicing and teaching yoga in the heat, she became a certified Astanga teacher and opened the Clapham yogahaven (and soon to be open Islington centre!) with her dear friend, Allie. She’s very passionate about running the studio, experimenting in the kitchen and going on adventures – whether home or abroad! Krystal teaches a vinyasa flow class, with invigorating fluid movements that engage the breath... Read the profile >>
Lizzie was first drawn to yoga as a philosophy student over 15 years ago as a way of deepening her understanding of the relationship between the body and the mind. As she increasingly integrated the practices of yoga into her daily life, the healing benefits transpired and yoga eventually took over as her fulltime occupation. She has intently studied with a variety of internationally renowned teachers and schools including Sivananda, Asthanga and Iyengar, and has been lovingly teaching as a Certified Jivamukti teacher since 2007. She is also certified as a children’s yoga teacher, a thai yoga masseur, craniosacral therapist, and is currently studying the Rolfing technique of Structural Integration. Her vinyasa-based classes are infused with a passion for music, attention to... Read the profile >>
When southern California-born super-heavyweight bodybuilding champ Matt (or "the Pillar" as we like to call him) is not filming fitness television shows like Fat Fighters on Channel 4, he is busy transforming the lives and physiques of his clients at Gymbox in Covent Garden. Matthew is smashing the "yoga is for girls" myth, and is a strong advocate of male athletes using yoga practice to be the best they can be. Which is why he's working to spread his Broga concept worldwide! Come see Matt in action (and work up a sweat) at Broga, at Gymbox Bank on Thursdays 6pm. Contact Matt at calbodybuilder@gmail.com for private training and nutrition counselling, or check out his website at www.millerthepillar.tv. You can also connect with him on twitter at: @matt_miller_tv Read the profile >>
Born in Ottawa, Canada, Mercedes has spent most of her life studying creative movement and its use as a form of self-expression and spiritual exploration. By her own admission, Mercedes' love affair with yoga did not begin as some full fledge, running dive into the ocean. Rather it was more an experience of dipping a big toe into a vast, unending body of water, testing it, observing, noting its coolness inviting you in further, only to run back to the security of her metaphorical blanket on the shore. In the beginning, Mercedes practised yoga now and again, with no real consistency or notice of what was going on around me. Slowly and steadily though, over time she noticed that the more she got on to the mat, the more things were different when she got off of it. It was during... Read the profile >>
Rachel has been working with creative movement and yoga for more than a decade. After training with the Alvin Ailey Dance School and completing a BA in choreography, Rachel lived and worked for many years, as a professional dancer in New York City. Rachel travelled to India in 2005, where she completed her first teachers training. Since then, she has immersed herself in the dynamic yoga practice and has completed several 200hr certifications in addition to developing her own unique Vinyasa style. Rachel’s 2 year move to Berlin in February 2010 was the inspiration and playground for Funk the Buddha: her global yoga project: infusing art, music, yoga and cultural exchange together, to bring yoga out of the studio and into the playground of our cities. Although London now... Read the profile >>
