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Vaccasin

Vaccasin started practicing Iyengar yoga in Sydney, Australia in 1986 and started his teacher training with Peter Scott in Melbourne in 1990. He completed his teacher training at the Maida Vale Iyengar Institute, London in 1994.

Vaccasin developed the Yoga centre at the Croydon Buddhist Centre between 1991/97. He also taught at Bodywise (Bethnal Green) and Yoga Home (Stoke Newington) before moving to Bristol to set up City Yoga in 2001. After 7 years in Bristol, Vaccasin moved back to London to set up Yoga Point in Brixton. Having spent 12 years living and working in Buddhist communities (ordained into the Western Buddhist Order in 1993), Vaccasin's yoga practice and teaching draws from this influence.

Celia Henebury

Celia has been practicing Iyengar yoga since 1994 at the Iyengar Institute in Maida Vale. She completed her two-year teacher training under the guidance of Alaric Newcombe, one of the most senior teachers in this country, and is qualified to teach the Level 1 and Level 2 syllabus.

The physical and mental health benefits that Celia has experienced through yoga have been rewarding and life changing. Celia aims to bring those to other people in a safe and productive environment with a sense of fun and enjoyment. Iyengar yoga focuses on extension and alignment, using props where necessary to help achieve the asana. Classes will help to build strength, stability, flexibility and mental calm.

Chris Holt

Chris has been practising yoga since 1995 and teaching since 2008 with a qualification in Hatha Yoga from the Amrita School of Yoga. Her classes draw on many styles of yoga and the approach is gentle although not "easy" and not just for "beginners". There is an emphasis on getting to know your own body, mind and self. The classes focus on stretching, breathing, relaxing and gradually developing mobility and strength. Students say they leave her classes feeling "relaxed yet invigorated".

Chris is a mum of two young boys and has found that yoga has helped her feel healthier and introduced a little space into a busy and sometimes anxious life. She has found it is possible in that space to quieten down, reflect and find inspiration.

Deepti Sastry

Deepti has been practicing yoga since she was eight. Having practiced Hatha, Ashtanga, Jivamukti and Sivananda over the past fifteen years she completed her training in Vinyasa flow yoga and is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance (USA). To Deepti, yoga is a playground of challenges. It has taught her humility, resolve, determination and quiet. She draws on her own practice to bring challenges, playfulness and very importantly humility to her classes.

Students will encounter a dynamic practice, which will allow them to physically challenge themselves while reflecting on the mind, breath and body. The physical challenge will aim to bring constant dynamism to challenge the mind and body towards stillness.

Laura Guarnera

Laura is originally from a dance background with over 30 years experience in dance and a variety of movement techniques. A performer, choreographer and teacher, she trained as a Pilates foundation teacher with The Place in 2000. Laura's unique style is particularly influenced by release technique, Scaravelli yoga and body mind centering.

Pilates works the whole body, its aim is to develop the 'core' muscles, in order to undo bad posture and encourage dynamic alignment. The aim of Pilates is to restore the natural strength of the body, to work its full potential with the least amount of effort. The core fundamentals of Pilates are based upon a thorough understanding of the anatomy of the human body.

Louise Meager

Louise came across yoga as a student travelling in India in 1995 and has practised it habitually ever since. She worked in the television industry for 15 years before having 2 children, and completed her Yoga training with the Amrita School of Yoga in 2009. Although she has been through phases of practicing various forms of yoga including Iyengar, Ashtanga, Sivananda and Vinyasa Flow, her current classes can be described as Hatha with Flow influences. Classes start with breath synchronised stretching and lead up to more dynamic movement and postures, before finishing with relaxation.

Maurizio Marmorato

Maurizio has been practicing yoga in different forms since 2003 and completed his training as a Hatha Yoga Teacher at the Amrita School of Yoga in London. The results of his own practice and his seeking spirit have led him to believe that Yoga has the power to transform people's desires, needs and attitudes towards life into something magical of the utmost importance. He is committed to exploring and meeting those individual needs and to making yoga friendly, fun and accessible to everyone.

Drawing on Ashtanga and Jivamukti yoga practices, his classes bring together a balance between ying and yang energies. An harmonious blend of intense, dynamic, vigorous elements counterposed by a more gentle, introspective style. This leads to a development of strength and flexibility whilst finding and maintaining an inner sense of union.

Rachel Barlow

Rachel has been a yoga practitioner since 2001 and teaching full-time since 2006. She teaches yoga with warmth, compassion and humour. She hopes to inspire her students through her own commitment to the practice of Astanga Vinyasa yoga and her passion for yoga and understanding of movement. Rachel continues to be inspired by both the students she teaches and the teachers she practices with. Rachel also has a BTEC Diploma in sport and remedial massage therapy and is undergoing teacher training in sport and remedial massage.

Rachel's classes are dynamic, flowing and explorative with focus on breath and movement working together to create a calm and peaceful inner self.

Tanya Shoop

Tanya has been teaching the Alexander Technique locally for over eight years. She works with a great variety of people. Most come for posture or pain - typically back, neck and shoulder pain - but the two can often be linked. She has a team approach: working together to change habits, improve posture and strengthen the back.

Tanya came from a busy and stressful office background and was disconnected from her body. Her first Alexander lesson back in 1993 opened up a new world, consciously thinking about how she used her body during normal day-to-day activities and not just when exercising. She realised how habitual body use could cause poor posture and aches and pains and how life could be a lot more comfortable and less effortful. Further information about Alexander Technique and this class.

Terry Morin

Terry has been practicing yoga for 10 years, having come to yoga later in life. She trained as a yoga teacher with the Amrita School of Yoga in 2009. Since then she has focussed her teaching on working with older people and people who have had strokes. Terry is a qualified and experienced Gestalt Psychotherapist. Her yoga practice inevitably influenced her work as a psychotherapist, particularly the breathing, grounding and relaxation.

Terry draws some of her therapy awareness into her yoga teaching. She has a particular interest in stress reduction, and in working with physical limitations/ disability. Her classes have a gentle flow with plenty of attention to detail. The focus is on the breathing, with the movements following the breath. Her intention is to discuss the needs of regular attenders and to adapt her material in response to any restrictions and limitations.