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Helen Briggs back to top Helen is the owner and manager of Aditi Yoga Centre. Helen has been practicing yoga for almost 20 years and trained as a yoga teacher through the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre and regularly returns to Sivananda Yoga Ashrams in India, Europe and North America to continue her training & development. Helen also qualified as a prenatal & postnatal yoga teacher through the Birthlight Organisation in London and trained to teach yoga to children through YogaBugs/Yoga’d Up, London. Helen is a member of the British Wheel of Yoga and continues her studies on an ongoing basis with world renowned teachers of various yoga traditions, such as Tias Little (Iyengar Yoga), Paul Grilley (Yin Yoga), Sarah Powers (Yin Yoga), Seane Corn (Vinyasa Yoga), Shiva Rea (Vinyasa Yoga), Claire Missingham (Vinyasa Yoga), Siri Datta (Kundalini Yoga) and has recently completed Judith Lasater's "Relax & Renew" Restorative Yoga teacher training course. Helen previously worked in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, where she held various senior positions in marketing and business management. In 2002 she decided to establish Aditi Yoga Centre in Edinburgh because of her passion for yoga and her desire to help people improve the quality of their lives, by improving their ability to deal with stress. Helen is also a Hypnotherapist, HypnoFertility® therapist, HypnoBirthing® practitioner, a Reiki & EFT practitioner. Helen’s areas of interest are fertility, pregnancy and birth. Helen also has experience of working with people with back, neck & shoulder problems, depression & anxiety and various special needs, such as autism. |
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Janet Brunton back to top Janet is a qualified fitness & Pilates instructor and teaches physical activity classes at Stevenson College, Edinburgh. She is passionate about helping all sorts of people to fit exercise into their busy lives and she enjoys delivering fitness classes & one to one coaching to college/school students, people in local communities & in workplaces. Janet is registered with the Register of Exercise Professionals and, ever keen to develop her skills, she is due to complete an HNC (Health, Exercise and Fitness) and a level 3 Pilates qualification by summer 2009. |
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Moira Ewingback to top Moira has extensive experience of practicing yoga and is a Yoga Scotland trained teacher, specialising in Hatha flow classes to all levels. Moira, a professional executive working in private investment by day, has a great understanding of the positive impact yoga can have, when practiced regularly. |
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Hayley Price back to top Hayley was first introduced to meditation 9 years ago and has been a keen practitioner of yoga for over 6 years. A large part of her training has been in India, where she spent time training intensively, at the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains with Bhooma Chaitanya of the Sivananda Tradition. Following this, Hayley spent a further four months at the ‘Bihar Yoga Bharati’ ashram, otherwise known as the ‘Bihar School of Yoga’ of the Satyananda Tradition in India. Here, she was able to gain experience in many yogic philosophies and practices. She had access to yogic texts and her heart expanded through the practices of Kirtan (yogic chanting), Yoga Nidra (psychic sleep) and Karma Yoga (yoga of service). She was greatly inspired, while living there, to see yoga as a much more holistic relationship to life. She then continued her training at the ‘Satyananda Yoga Academy’ Australia, where she gained a government accredited diploma for teaching yoga. Hayley is an experienced teacher, who loves to share the wealth of knowledge available to all through the experience of Yoga. |
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Polly Rewt back to top Polly has practiced yoga for twenty five years, exploring its physical and subtle benefits through Iyengar, Astanga and Hatha traditions. She has taught yoga for ten years, drawing on her interests in and experiences of different yoga traditions to provide students with fresh approaches and insights into yoga so that they can be empowered to make their own practice safe, challenging and personally meaningful. A passionate believer in the cultivation of ‘beginner’s mind’, Polly seeks to balance mastery of asana and pranayama techniques with an attitude of playful exploration and acceptance in her own practice and in her teaching. She regularly attends Iyengar, Hatha and Astanga classes and has done workshops with renowned teachers such as Dona Holleman and John Scott. Originally from Colorado, USA, Polly has lived and worked in Edinburgh for twenty-five years. She did her post graduate degrees at the University of Edinburgh and has worked in publishing, research and as a tutor in the Arts and Social Sciences faculties for the Open University for fifteen years. She is an avid mountain biker and sea kayaker, and combines her love of outdoor pursuits and yoga by running annual yoga weekends at Firbush, the University of Edinburgh’s outdoor centre on Loch Tay, Perthshire. |
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Ann Richards back to top Ann’s love of Tai Chi began after attending a seminar with Master Jason Chan in 1999, which led her to complete a 3 year teacher training course in Infinite Tai Chi, Chi Kung and meditation. Ann was also inspired to take a further 2 year training course, with Jason Chan, in the Ling Chi Energy Healing Art. Ann has been teaching for over 6 years and is passionate about Infinite Tai Chi. Ann truly believes that it transforms people’s lives. Ann is also a qualified Indian Head Masseuse. Ann previously owned her own specialist teddy bear emporium retailing to collectors worldwide. |
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Anne Young back to top Anne is a graduate of Napier University in Edinburgh where she attained a BSc with Distinction in Complementary Therapies (Aromatherapy) and is a member of the International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists (IFPA). Originally much of Anne’s work with babies was with CranioSacral Therapy but due to numerous requests from parents for baby massage she undertook additional training to become a baby massage instructor. Anne trained with the Scottish School of Child and Baby Massage. Anne is enthusiastic to pass on her knowledge and techniques to parents as massage is a wonderful way to bond and communicate with their baby and can also play an important role in the baby’s emotional and physical development. Anne has also undertaken additional training in teaching massage for the toddler/older child and children with special needs |
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Joanne Ewen back to top Coming soon! |
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Kat Shaw back to top Kat is a full-time and certified ashtanga vinyasa yoga teacher and student. She began her study in Sydney, Australia and continued study with Brian Cooper in Scotland and following the teachings and trainings of Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, Donna Farhi, Matthew Sweeney, Annie Pace, John Scott, Danny Paradise, David Swenson and David Williams; her teaching is a dedicated Ashtanga practice that is fun and challenging. Kat is also trained and certified to teach yoga to children through YogaBugs, London. Kat has been involved in yoga from a very young age and teaches from her dedicated and daily practice; she is humble in her approach to yoga. Her passion is Ashtanga being accessible to all people and to understand the benefits and meditation side of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga through Breath. 'No matter how old, young, fit, unfit, flexible you are there is a posture for you. Kat really believes 'what you put into it is what you'll get out of it' the benefits are plenty. All yoga is beautiful and a gift to your Self'. With guidance yoga is learnt through practice and life style. |
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Nichola Veitch back to top Coming soon! |
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