Leila is an energy worker.  Working across the fields of priestessing, movement, yoga āsana, depth spiritual practice, and energy healing. Leila creates powerful & enchanting experiences wherever her voice is heard. She lights a path with lucid intelligence and is a channel for truly beautiful energies. Known for her talent in bringing the depth of the esoteric spiritual traditions into salient and accessible focus, she is a master at creating impactful offerings and calling communities centered in collective care, delight in life, and spirited engagement in the mystery of it all.

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Leila is dedicated to dismantling systemic oppression as a spiritual practice. She is a yoga & meditation teacher who has guided thousands of students into deeper practices and orientation to the energetics of being alive, and has trained a radiant cohort of truly great teachers and facilitators. She is a keeper of the Magdalene flame. She is a devotee of the Divine Mother in all Their forms, and she is a pilgrimage enthusiast for whom walking on sacred ground brings ecstatic satisfaction. She is also relentless in her service and studentship, is pretty great company, has a freewheeling sense of fun.​

Anna is a Senior Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist, Mindfulness & Compassion Instructor and author based in North London.  25 years ago yoga became an important part of Anna's daily routine to feel calmer, stronger, more grounded through busy London life. Since her initial teacher training in 2008 she has loved sharing these practices; enabling others to also live with greater balance and ease. She feels passionately about ​equipping people with simple, yet practical tools to incorporate into their daily lives. 

In recent years, she has been delighted to be involved in a range of teacher training programmes to support others in sharing these tools. As an Associate Tutor for Mindfulness UK, she delivered their Integrating Mindfulness and Compassion (IMC) Teacher Training programme as well as a range of modules for the Yoga On The Lane 200hr Teacher Training. She has supported Yoga Therapists in training as a Case Study Supervisor on the Yoga Campus Yoga Therapy Diploma and is on the Yoga Campus Teaching Faculty delivering CPD in Self-Care for Yoga Teachers.

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Anna's book 'Weaving Mindfulness & Compassion into Yoga Teaching: a guide for yoga teachers and teachers in training' will be published by Singing Dragon in June 2025. 

Firdose is a South African of Indian descent, a yoga teacher, practitioner & researcher passionate about issues of decolonisation and social justice. She is currently undertaking doctoral work titled Yoga, Politics and Possibilities for Social Justice at the University of Cape Town. She holds a Masters degree on the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and she is a registered E-RYT 500 teacher with Yoga Alliance. She also works as the Southern African correspondent for ESPN, where she reports on cricket in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and beyond.

Her teaching style is steeped in historical knowledge, cultural experience, socio political curiosity and practical application. In her classes you can expect historical and philosophical discourse zoning in on particular periods in yoga’s storied development, anatomically intelligent postural practice which is also reflective of asana as it evolved over time and culturally relevant information on practices from the subcontinent which have evolved through a Western lens. She is both an African and an Indian and recognizes the shared suffering through colonization. Her work is centered on amplifying both Africa and India’s attempts to seek liberation – of their resources, their cultures and their bodies.

Claire has been working with pregnant women for over a decade in her role as a reflexologist and yoga teacher.  She trained initially with Katy Appleton - apple yoga and then enhanced her teaching undertaking Katy's Pre and Post Natal Training.  Since then she has run regular prenatal yoga courses at her studio in Hitchin.

Claire has two sons, now 22 and 19, and found yoga to have been invaluable through her pregnancies and through motherhood.

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Whilst many women will seek a dedicated prenatal class, some women will attend a regular yoga class whilst pregnant. Claire's teaching through this training will offer you guidance on how to confidently welcome pregnant women into your classes.  

Of course ultimately they may move, or you may wish to guide them towards a prenatal focused class, but having some basic knowledge around how to accommodate an (often unexpected) pregnant woman will be invaluable.