Yoga Holiday Weekend  8th - 10th November, Brazier's Park, Oxfordshire - click here 

Hi, I'm Fiona and I offer classes based on the Tantra and Hatha traditions, including gentle and restorative classes as well as more dynamic, vinyasa elements of practice.  All classes are for a maximum of 10 people so that I can take individual needs and preferences into consideration.  Small group classes can be tailored, but there is generally a focus on connecting with the breath, seated and standing poses, as well as guided relaxation, to bring ease to body and mind.  ​I aim to help you learn to listen to and trust the inherent wisdom of your body to maintain wellness.  There are a few public classes listed here on the website, but it only takes 3 people to make a group, so small friends and family groups are who I mainly teach.  Please give me a ring if you'd like to find out more.

​Yoga is different things to different people.  For some it can be to strengthen and realign the body or to become more flexible.  It can be to find a way of calming and nurturing the emotions, to find time out.  For some it is a spiritual practice, to change our perception of life and the world.  For me Yoga is all of these - it's about my well being, noticing what does me good and makes me live well and helps me develop a curious, playful, relaxed approach to life.  

​I have been practising yoga since 1985, starting in India practising Iyengar Yoga in Pune and completing 200 Hours teacher training with the Amrita School of Yoga in South London in 2012.  I am trained in Yoga Therapy at the Integrative Yoga Therapy Centre in Garopaba, Brazil and in Tantra Yoga at the Shri Kali Ashram in Rishikesh.  I have also had the opportunity to study with many great teachers on workshops and retreats over the years.  A list of all my teachers to whom I am eternally grateful is at the bottom of the page.  I am a member of the Independent Yoga Network,  CRB checked and insured.

Over the years my interest in maintaining wellness through consideration of the whole person has lead me to study different Yoga traditions, Yoga Therapy, Thai Yoga massage, nutrition, Chi Gung and Mindfulness.  I incorporate elements of these in classes, workshops and consultations.  

I want to thank and acknowledge all the teachers who have gone before, who I did not meet but whose influence has been incredible in bringing down through the years this beautiful tradition that with no central authority has proved itself to be true through the experiential corroboration of each of us, who find this path for ourselves.  Abhinavagupta, Ksemaraja, Patanjali, Krishnamacharya, BKS Iyengar ........ and so many more.  There is such joy in the knowledge that this cannot be taken away once we know, such strength and such a source of hope for the world.  

​I also want to thank my actual teachers (some in a virtual medium) who have contributed to my journey in ways they will never know.  The layers build one upon the other, each teacher's gift another leaf on the tree.

​Prem Baba, Bhagavan Shri Shanmukha Anantha Natha, Nigel Gilderson, Christopher Hareesh Wallis, Joseph and Lilian Lepage, Ruth White, Karen Patterson, Swami Asokananda, Petri Raissonen, Uma Dinsmore Tulli, John Scott, Ananda Mehotra, Sama Fabian, Tanya Brown, Joseph Goldstein, Judith Lasiter, , 

​For information about classes click here.

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