Mindfulness Yoga

About Helen

I started practising yoga back in 2003. It happened almost by chance. I’d had enough of pounding the treadmill to tone up and keep fit, so I dropped in at an Iyengar yoga class at my local gym. At first I did it purely for the physical exercise, nothing else, but it made me feel good and my body began to change shape – I saw a new definition, I became trimmer and felt stronger. And my knees, that had given me trouble for years, stopped aching. And it was so much more appealing than running!

As other yogis will understand, I got the bug. Before I knew it, I was attending three classes a week and booking myself on yoga holidays. If I ever failed to make a session, my body really missed it. Then, when a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity arose to retrain following redundancy, I took the leap. I enrolled on a 200 hour Teacher Training course to study Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation, which I completed in September 2010. Mindfulness was much less of a buzzword than it is now, but I loved the element of this training, studying works by one of the greatest teachers of Mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn. In 2011, I completed a 48 hour Pregnancy Teacher Training course with the renowned Nadia Narain at Triyoga, which taught me how to teach pre & postnatal yoga safely.