Meet the Team
Read on to learn more about the Jasmine Yoga team who aim to make your experience with us so special!
This is just some of training our Jasmine Yoga teachers have undertaken: 200 hours Yoga Teacher Training, Yin Yoga Teaching, Pregnancy & Post Natal Teacher Training, Anatomy Training, Trauma-Informed Training, Deconstruct to Reconstruct Training, Advanced Children’s Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga for Children with Additional Needs, GTP Teaching Qualification, Mindfulness Training, Advanced Restorative Training, PGCE Teaching Qualification, Yoga for Menopause, Breathwork & Pranayama Training.
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After discovering the joys of yoga over a decade ago, it very quickly became something amazing in my life, something that took me away from everyday stresses and strains and brought a great sense of peace and balance to my life. I hadn’t found this same impact with previous hobbies and exercise routines. I practised Ashtanga, Hatha and Iyengar yoga but then discovered the joy of moving through postures with emphasis on the breath in Vinyasa flows.. It energised me and ignited my interest in embracing yoga fully into my life as a teacher.
I trained in 2016 and launched Jasmine Yoga in 2017. It felt like a leap of faith to leave my career and embark on an adventure but what a privilege it has truly been.
I love to welcome people into our Jasmine community and to see them grow in strength, flexibility and confidence. Many feel uncertain and self-conscious at first, but have flourished into happier people with competent yoga practices, beautiful posture and a greater sense of personal resilience, self-respect and a deeper self-awareness. I am a qualified Yin yoga and pregnancy & post-natal teacher.
Describe your teaching style in one sentence
My style is fluid and rhythmic with the breath at the heart of my practice, I love to imagine creative sequences and new ways to explore the poses.
What is your favourite pose and why?
My favourite pose is Humble Warrior, Baddha Virabhadrasana. I love it because it feels grounded, strong and satisfying to breath into.
How does yoga make you feel?
Yoga makes me feel alive and strong and it helps me leave my busy mind and arrive in the moment.
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Through a challenging few years of suffering with mental health issues, I feel forever grateful for finding yoga when I did. It has taught me much about myself, and I am constantly learning and growing as a person through ongoing dedication to my yoga practice. I feel that yoga shows me how to love, accept and respect every part of myself.
Describe your teaching style in one sentence
I teach vinyasa flow, integrating intentions to make the practice more reflective and to help deepen the awareness that yoga is so much more than physical asana.
What is your favourite pose and why?
My favourite yoga pose is Dancer's Pose (nataranjasana), because i am a lover of heart openers; joining that with the challenge of balancing on one leg and focusing on the breath - there’s no room to be thinking of anything else!
How does yoga make you feel?
Yoga makes me feel alive, strong and passionate. It is a constant reminder to keep my heart open, and to check in with how I’m feeling on a daily basis. Stepping on my yoga mat, whatever time, wherever I am, is always like a massive sigh of relief, it is always there for me no matter what.
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In August 2010, I was spending the summer travelling round Spain. My travel buddy would begin each morning with sun salutations... so I decided to join her. It offered peace and quiet, whilst providing an energising and thoughtful start to the day - it was my first dabble into yoga... Little did I know that my dynamic mum would later make a life changing decision to found Jasmine!
Whilst on maternity leave from teaching English, I decided that the time was right to embark upon my yoga training. Although I’d been practising for years, I was rediscovering my post-baby body and in a way, yoga felt brand new again. Learning the science and philosophy behind it has helped to deepen my own practice and my appreciation of its benefits. I love helping people to feel happy when they step off the yoga mat - whether that's from a Vinyasa flow or a more mindful practice.
Teaching pregnancy classes and sharing a little in this unique time, is a joyful experience for me. I also enjoy introducing children and teenagers to yoga and watching them blossom.
Essentially, I love so much about yoga haha!!!
Describe your teaching style in one sentence
Cultivating a peaceful strength.
What is your favourite pose and why?
I love Goddess - it just makes me smile!
How does yoga make you feel?
Empowered and utterly joyful.
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When I first started yoga it was because physical benefits and poses appealed to me, I have a background in dance, gymnastics and cheerleading so yoga felt like a natural next step. I had no idea that yoga was so much more than just poses when I first started out and I am forever grateful to those first teachers that showed me that yoga is a way of life.
Yoga changed the way I think, act and react - it transformed my life and how I view and relate to the world around me. It has brought me great peace and healing.
After realising how beautiful the practice of yoga is I knew I wanted to share it so I embarked on my yoga teacher training in India and since then it has continued to weave a beautiful path in my life
I am now lit up by working alongside women during pregnancy and post partum, and I genuinely feel like this work is my souls mission in this lifetime
I have immense gratitude for anyone that comes along to my classes, it is an honour and a privilege to walk alongside women on their greatest journeys
Describe your teaching style in one sentence
My teaching style has evolved over the years, as I've leaned more towards classes with mums to be/mums and babies my teaching style centres around connection and community, my classes are warm and nurturing and my aim is that you leave with your cup full up and a smile on your face (and maybe some new friends!).
What is your favourite pose and why?
My favourite pose is either Camel or Wheel pose. I love backbends, the intensity and also how they open the chest and heart, they make me feel strong, alive and capable of anything! They also remind me to lead with the heart, with love ❤️
How does yoga make you feel?
Yoga to me feels like coming home. No matter what is going on around me yoga is my safe space, my reminder to be present and to be grateful for this moment and this life.
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I discovered yoga in my mid twenties during a period of high stress with work. I had no idea it would be come an integral part of my life, on the mat and far beyond it.
I really love creative flows and being playful with my vinyasa. I like to counteract the yang with lots of lovely restorative yoga and utter chill out. I love that yoga can match your mood and what you need that particular day.
Yoga philosophy is so important in how I live my life, on a daily basis it challenges and guides us.
I help Jasmine Yoga with everything “behind the scenes” - I make sure your booking is smooth, the website is clear and you have everything you need to relax and get the most out of your experience. I’m also qualified in breathwork and pranayama.
What is your favourite pose and why?
It really changes day to day. If I’m feeling energised and strong I really enjoy half moon (Ardha chandrasana), it challenges you in so many ways and the wobbles reflect our life off the mat. If I’m chilled out, a supported butterfly (supta baddha konasana) is just lush!
How does yoga make you feel?
It feels like a recipe for leading a happy and fulfilling life. From taking note of your breath to calm and relax, to copious planks to help you feel strong, to the Yamas and Niyamas that guide us. It’s just wonderful.
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Yoga has been a core part of my life since ~2009, when I started to attend classes regularly in London. My love for the practice began as a fun and effective workout, but over the following few years it developed into much more.
I spent most of my 30s living in Canada, initially on a small island on the west coast, and more recently in Montreal. My reasons for visiting both those places, and for staying for so long, was the yoga communities and teachers I found there. In 2022, I moved back to the North East of England to be closer to my family. I am now living a peaceful life in Whitley Bay and enjoying integrating myself into the yoga community on this gorgeous coast.
Yoga has transformed my body and my life, but it has also been a thread of consistency for my life, which has been characterised by constant change. In group classes, I share sequences of movement inspired by the yoga practices I've embodied, and prompts to guide you into greater awareness of your self and your body. I have trained to teach in Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Nidra and Meditation.
Describe your teaching style in one sentence
Always with an emphasis on grounding, I balance technical instruction with quiet space - so you can feel into the body shapes which we flow through.
What is your favourite pose and why?
Ardha Chandrasana (Half Moon) is my favourite pose. To be comfortable in this shape, I have to be gently engaged in all of my limbs. When I find that balance, I feel connected in my body and peaceful in my mind.
How does yoga make you feel?
Yoga feels like an anchor; it allows me to find a feeling of home - of comfort and security - whatever is happening in my life.
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I was introduced to yoga in my 20s. After always enjoying cardio workouts I wanted to try something different. I started going to Les Mills body balance classes at university and absolutely loved it!
I studied physiotherapy, qualifying in 2008 and I now specialise in neurological conditions. It is a very rewarding and demanding job. After maternity leave I returned to work part time and wanted to do something related to physio but a little more holistic (and fun!). I struggled to adjust to my post partum body and was not able to return to my ‘go to’ sports like running and cycling so I started practicing yoga more regularly and completed the yoga instructor’s training.
The is a a growing body of evidence to suggest that yoga can be of benefit in a number of health conditions such as low back pain, neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis and stroke and for mental wellbeing.
I love how yoga can be accessible to all and the benefits are not just physical. It can energise or relax you, stretch and comfort you, provide strengthening, escapism, reflection and sometimes help you feel like your ‘old self’.
Describe your teaching style
Energetic perhaps, welcoming, friendly and supportive. Hopefully I am able to bring in some of my physiotherapy knowledge and skills into the practice to make it more personal centred and specific.
Favourite pose and why
I like playing with traditional poses to make them more challenging. I love pigeon, side angle and triangle for a satisfying stretch.
How does yoga make me feel
Happy
Satisfied!
Allows me to ‘switch off’