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Yoga is a highly practical system designed to bring greater balance and harmony into everyday life. I teach three main disciplines - Satyananda yoga, pregnancy yoga and post natal yoga (yoga for mums and babies).
I have teaching diplomas from the Bihar School of Yoga (Satyananda Yoga) and from the British Wheel of Yoga, the governing body for yoga in the UK. I have completed specialist training to teach yoga to pregnant women (teaching diploma in Perinatal Yoga from Birthlight) and additional postnatal and baby yoga training with the British Wheel. I am fully insured by the British Wheel of Yoga. I am also trained to assess new teachers (for final class assessments) and am currently teaching on the Satyananda Yoga Teacher Training Course in Birmingham.
I attended my first yoga class when I was at school and then again as a student looking to learn how to relax and cope with exam stress. It made a big impression on me for its power to help me find balance, calm and strength. I carried on going to weekly classes for about ten years and eventually decided I wanted to know more and to go deeper by doing a teacher training course. I trained with the Bihar School of Yoga (Satyananda Yoga), an internationally renowned system of yoga which is firmly rooted in tradition and adapted to the needs of modern living. I had met a teacher in this tradition who really inspired me, and I loved its more meditative and spiritual approach. I started teaching in September 1999 and completed my teacher training in November 2000. I have a spiritual name – Dayamitra – which I was given as part of my initiation into the Satyananda tradition. "Daya" means compassion, and "mitra" means friend, so my name means friend of compassion or compassionate friend. A spiritual name points us in the direction of our highest potential.
As well as Satyananda yoga, I teach pregnant and postnatal women. I run weekly antenatal yoga classes and weekly yoga classes for mums and babies (up to a year old). I also run Saturday morning yoga sessions for mums on their own. I love working with women and babies at this hugely important time. Yoga has been a big part of my life for more than 25 years and now, on my journey as a mother of two young children, it feels even more profoundly effective as a practice which can nurture, transform and heal. I believe that yoga during this time can provide simple, powerful and beautiful ways of meeting the demands of pregnancy, birth and mothering with an open heart. We are the best yoga students at this time - and our babies are great communicators and yoga teachers!
