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Yoga is a highly practical system designed to bring greater balance and harmony into everyday life. I teach three main disiplines - Satyananda yoga, pregnancy yoga and post natal yoga
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 pregnant women and postnatal and baby yoga with Birthlight and Sitaram. I have a specialist teaching diploma in Perinatal yoga from Birthlight, and additional postnatal and baby yoga training and Early Years Yoga certificates from Sitaram. I am fully insured by the British Wheel of Yoga
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 started teaching in September 1999 and completed my teacher training with the Bihar School of Yoga (Satyananda Yoga) 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 in Bristol and Stroud, and weekly yoga classes for mums and babies (up to a year old), also in Bristol and Stroud. 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 20 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 the greatest yoga teachers!
