Dylan Ayaloo is an experienced yoga teacher, studio owner and teacher trainer based in London. We discussed how you can become a more attractive yoga teacher for a studio from a studio owner’s perspective, so this is a must listen…
Sunday School Yoga is an innovative teachers’ community that aims to help support, guide and mentor newer teachers as they find their hands, feet and voices. Started by our good friend and global yogi Michael James Wong, we feel pretty privileged…
Adell Bridges is a full time travelling yoga teacher i.e. she doesn’t have a home base and she has built a huge following on Instagram, which helps her to fill her classes and workshops. It’s also clear that it’s a…
Jake Paul White spoke to us about his fascinating story from design professional to full time yoga teacher back to graphic designer but this time combining his passions of design, business and teaching yoga. We discussed the importance of finding…
A Q&A with Lucy Bannister, a pioneer in London’s rooftop yoga scene who’s now making waves in the North of England… Tell us a little about yourself… I am trained in Dru Yoga – a gentle, flowing and slow yoga…
A Q&A with one of London’s brightest up and coming yoga teachers… Tell us a bit about yourself… I’m David Kam, a London-based movement artist and yoga teacher. Movement is my way of poetry and through sharing my practice, I…
A Q&A with Hannah Presence, who is bringing yoga to some of the toughest prisons in the UK… Tell us a bit about yourself… Hi I’m Hannah, yoga teacher in South East London and Kent. My foundation practice is Ashtanga…
Lucy Edge has a story many of us can identify with. Disillusioned with corporate life she travelled to India to explore new paths, from which she wrote her first book – Yoga School Dropout. This eventually led her to create…
We caught up with Jake Ferree, an LA based yoga teacher who has developed some innovative ways to stay relevant in a very competitive yoga city i.e. where there are a lot of other yoga teachers. He shares plenty of…
A Q&A with Ashley Hunt, a meditation evangelist who’s shaking things up. Tell us a bit about yourself… I’m a modern meditation teacher, passionate about spreading the life-changing power of mindfulness. It’s my mission to show people how important meditation…
A Q&A with a Birmingham, UK based yoga teacher with several strings to her bow. Tell us a little bit about yourself… I’m Zoe, I’m owner and founder of Aloha & Coffee. I’m a yoga teacher, lifestyle and travel blogger…
Kirsty Gallagher has led over 60 yoga retreats since 2012. She’s been in the pages of National Geographic, The Times and The Metro and really knows what it takes to make a retreat special, so naturally we were excited to…
A Q&A with one of London’s up and coming newer yoga teachers Tell us a little about yourself… My name is Lauryn Allman and I am a Canadian actress, writer and yoga teacher. I moved to London three years ago….
A Q&A with the founder of a badly needed niche service, in the yoga world and beyond. Tell us a little bit about yourself… I’m Melissa Van Emden and I founded Yogadmin; a flexible administration service for yoga teachers, studios…
Pat Bailey has started and built several businesses. A few years ago she took the brave step of mixing yoga with her business The Hell Yes Agency, since which she has seen her life thrive. Pat is a qualified yoga teacher, writer…
Chrissy Carter has led over 25 yoga teacher training programs for YogaWorks in New York City, where she is based. Having taught for over 14 years herself she has learned a lot about how to make a career out of…
A Q&A with a recently qualified teacher who has consciously decided to make yoga teaching a part time focus. Tell us a little about yourself… I’m Shanna Tyler and I am based in New York City. Firstly, I consider…
Zephyr Wildman is one of London’s best known and most established yoga teachers. For this conversation she asked her trainee teachers what questions they would like answered and we chose 5 of them to talk about here. Zephyr has answered…
A Q&A with a one year qualified yoga teacher who has found her groove in operating outside of a major city. Tell us a little about yourself… My name is Lauren Barber and I am a yogipreneur! I am multi-passionate…
A Q&A with travelling yoga teacher Delamay Devi, who tells us about her life on the road and her unique teacher training offerings. Tell us a little bit about yourself… I’m a traveling gypsy yoga teacher whose location changes with…
Those were the words from Krissy Jones to fellow yoga teacher Chloe Kernaghan, barely 2 months after Krissy had semi-jokingly added “open a yoga studio” to her New Year’s 2015 resolutions list! The pair co-founded New York City’s Sky Ting Yoga, quickly…
A quickfire Q&A with Raquelle Gracie, co-founder of the fringe.yoga method and the fringe.yoga studios in Hertfordshire… Tell us a little about yourself and your co-founder Jodie… Jodie Merrick and I are two friends, mothers and passionate yoga teachers. We met…
A quickfire Q&A with a yoga teacher using her career experience from the corporate world to bring wellness to workplaces… Tell us a little about yourself… I’m Natalie Cristal Morrison, Founder of The Wellness People, which brings a range of…
Erin Lewis, founded the yoga retreat company EAT.PRAY.MOVE Yoga, which has gone on to be featured in Oprah Magazine, Time, Elle & The Huffington Post amongst many others. She spoke to TPOY about range of topics including how and why…
A quickfire Q&A with a London based yoga teacher whose business and life strategies both include bringing her whole heart to whatever she does. Tell us a little bit about yourself… I’m Kate Lister, a London-based yoga teacher and singer….
A quickfire Q&A with a London based studio founder on a mission to spread the message of health beyond appearance and wellbeing beyond your being. Tell us a little bit about yourself… I’m Natalia Bojanic, a former Public Relations Director…
Francesca Kleanthous came to teaching yoga after 12 years in Public Relations (PR) for a number of leading advertising companies such as Lowe Lintas and McCann Erickson. She shares the actionable tips of how her professional background has helped to…
Valerie Jeremijenko, the founder of Yama Yoga Studios in Doha, Qatar, shared her experiences of teacher training, mentoring and support. Valerie traveled to India in 1991 to study under Pattabhi Jois, and then moved to the USA, connecting with many…
Donna ‘The Noble Yogi’ Noble is the founder of CurveSomeYoga. She has been practicing yoga since 1999 and became a certified yoga teacher in 2011. Donna has written and been featured in publications such as The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Yoga Magazine, Om…
Fenella Lindsell founded and developed Yoga Bugs, a successful children’s yoga franchise that had a memorable Dragons’ Den pitch in 2006, turning down multiple funding offers from the show. Today she runs a full class schedule in South West London and…
Hotpod Yoga is an innovative yoga studio business that has grown from it’s start in January 2013 to an impressive 27 locations in 7 countries, offering around 2500 classes per month and having served nearly 60,000 customers! It’s a franchise…
Tara Stiles needs very little introduction. Founder of Strala, a revolutionary approach to healing through movement, she’s written several bestselling books, collaborated with W Hotels and Reebok, and is regularly featured in major newspapers and magazines around the world. Her…
Mary Beth LaRue is a yoga teacher, writer and the co-founder of Rock Your Bliss, a yoga inspired coaching movement for the mind and body. Based in Los Angeles, she has been teaching yoga for over a decade including at…
Andrea Kwiatkowski is the founder of Santosha Yoga and a senior yoga teacher who has mentored many newer teachers in recent years. Based in Cambridgeshire, England she teaches locally and leads retreats and workshops around the world. You can also find…
Samara Morris found the inspiration for her product idea in the midst of personal trauma, having suffered a serious accident. She has since created a beautiful line of art inspired eco-friendly yoga mats. She shared her story and lessons with…
Celest Pereira is one of London’s most popular yoga teachers. She spoke with TPOY founder Niraj about her evolution from teaching yoga initially being her “plan C’, to building her ability as a skilled teacher and marketer, through to releasing her…
Naomi Annand is the highly respected founder and director of gorgeous East London yoga studio, Yoga on the Lane. She shared the highlights of her journey and what she’s learned along the way in this brief chat with us. Tell…
Kimberly Parsons, is the author of The Yoga Kitchen and founder of Retreat, a healthy eating food offering found in yoga studios in London and a growing selection of healthy yoga Retreat holidays. She spoke with us about her journey through food…
After experiencing burnout from stress in her twenties, Naomi Wright left a promising corporate career in search of regaining her health, passion and positivity for life. She spoke with The Present of Yoga about her journey of transformation through yoga…
After originally training to become a medical doctor, Andrew McGonigle moved away from western medicine to pursue a career as a yoga teacher, massage therapist and anatomy teacher. Andrew combines all of his skills to teach anatomy and physiology on…
Deb Flashenberg is the founder and Director of Prenatal Yoga Center in New York City. She’s been teaching yoga for 16 years, of which 15 have been dedicated to the pre & post-natal communities. Prenatal Yoga Center is the only…
Michele Pernetta, owner and founder of iconic London hot yoga brand Fierce Grace, shares her thoughts on a variety of topics including studios in today’s environment, why she created Fierce Grace and some stellar tips for teachers on how to get…
In this conversation with The Present of Yoga founder Niraj Shah, Reclaim Your SELF Healthy Holidays founder Jools Sampson shares her advice on how to run a successful yoga retreat. Having created and delivered retreats for over 10 years, often…
Indra Kubicek is the creator of om exchange, an online platform to connect yogis to yoga experiences. Her day job is Director at The Raspberry Pi Foundation, building an international tech education programme teaching children coding and digital making skills….
Kat Farrants founded the leading online yoga platform Movement for Modern Life. Having practiced yoga for 23 years, she knows the importance of learning with the very best teachers. Her mission is to enable the best teachers to be accessible to all. Kat spoke to…
Bhanu Bhatnagar is a journalist and yogi. He is the brain behind ‘Who Owns Yoga?’, an Al Jazeera documentary published in 2014 which explores the commercialisation and politicisation of yoga in the modern world. He shares his insights with us…
Kat Farrants founded the leading online yoga platform Movement for Modern Life. Having practiced yoga for 23 years, she knows the importance of learning with the very best teachers. Her mission is to enable the best teachers to be accessible to all. Kat spoke to…
Louis D’Origny founded OHMME in 2015, a yoga clothing brand designed and created especially for men. OHMME strives to break through the status quo and rise against stereotypes by inspiring men to embrace their practice and feel encouraged, empowered and comfortable on and…
