Claire Porter

Claire Porter is an experienced and enthusiastic teacher. She is certified by the British Wheel of Yoga and qualified as an assessor of new teachers. Claire coaches individuals and groups of all ages and all levels of ability. Her classes offer an antidote to our stressful lives and a chance to find an individual authentic practice. After professional training and a career as a dancer, Yoga studies with renowned teachers brought influences from several disciplines, and Claire integrates her experience to challenge and inspire students to go beyond their perceived limits. Emphasis is placed on technique and alignment, flexibility, breath control, and moving into postures through freedom not force, for a body renewed with vitality.

You can read more at www.yogaforbodyandmind.webs.com

Katie Courts

Katie teaches Ashtanga Vinyasa, Vinyasa Flow, YogaSports and Restorative yoga. She holds a 450 hour ashtanga certification from Brahmani Yoga in Goa, India, and a 500 hour certificate from the Art of Contemporary Yoga, where she trained in extensive anatomy, yoga therapy, meditation and psychological studies. In her Ashtanga training, she has studied with David Swenson, Phillipa Asher, Gingi Lee, David Williams, John Scott, Denise Martin Harker and Nawajyoti. She is also a qualified natural nutrition therapist and yoga therapist and uses this training to help her clients find wellbeing both on the mat and throughout their daily lives. Katie specialises in finding strength and freedom of movement within the practice, with an emphasis on utilising the core of the body in combination with a steadiness of breath in order to build a powerful practice, while at the same time finding softness in the strength. She also specialises in rehabilitation from injury.

You can read more at www.yoga-nut.co.uk

Dan Gelblum

Dan teaches his own style of Hatha yoga. His influences range from yoga sutras to martial arts. His classes are much loved and students feel immediate and long-term benefits. Dan focuses on fine movements resulting in rapid progress in flexibility and strength. Students remark at the ease with, which they can achieve challenging postures at the end of each class.

Dan has been teaching yoga since 1996. He trained in yoga and massage at the Limaye Clinic, Pune, India and the British Wheel of Yoga. He is a well-established yoga teacher in North West London. Dan is also a highly regarded Feldenkrais Practioner.

Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer was inspired by the sweeping intelligence and depth of yoga long before she began practising 20 years ago. She subsequently trained to become a yoga teacher and holds a 500HR Yoga Teacher Training Certificate from AOCY, in addition to her earlier Dance Teacher Training Certificate from SADTA. Her class style is a dynamic vinyasa flow coupled with restorative yoga. She believes that yoga is a personal experience where one’s practice is expanded and amplified through skilled alignment of dynamic flow and held poses. She adheres to the principles of breath attention and awareness coupled with synchronized movement to create a challenging and stimulating practice. Students are encouraged to work at their own pace and listen to their bodies with the intention to strengthen, energize and calm the mind. She teaches in order to share with others the infinity of yoga and all that it offers.

Diana Gomez

Diana Gómez is a qualified teacher in both Scaravelli and Sivananda Yoga. In her teaching, she is able to combine her experience in yoga with training in other disciplines where she is proficient such as personal training, mat Pilates and contemporary dance. Because of the nature of her professional background, Diana's understanding of the human body and its interconnection with the mind contribute to the dynamic of her sessions which are mostly focused on breathing, grounding, lifting and engaging whilst providing a revitalising and reenergising feeling. Diana is currently teaching Yoga and one-to-one disciplines at the Chelsea Sports Centre in London and at the Osteopath Centre (Pre Natal and Post Natal Yoga) in Bayswater.

Maria Santangelo

London-born Maria Santangelo believes Yoga is the Art of Enlightened living which to her means feeling loose, feeling free and feeling positive and happy.  Maria qualified with a Sunra yoga diploma and has been teaching full-time, evolving personally and professionally since 2001.  She offers her students a passionate style of teaching and enjoys teaching groups of all levels as well as more personal 1-2-1's.

Maria has conceived an empowering, nurturing and unique style.  She is intuitive, sensitive to the requirements of her students and her intelligently constructed classes are delivered with detail, love, enthusiasm and a very hands-on approach. She encourages you to gracefully invite and embrace change and set positive intention.   "Choose to make each day a positive experience, choose to feel good."

Maria feels a real empathy for those both new to the yoga mat as well as dedicated practitioners.

"My Yoga journey began when I was 21.  I purchased a magazine which came with a free gift.  A VHS introducing Yoga for the complete novice.  Only 10 minutes. Just 4 postures.  I practised everyday for a week.  I became hooked.  Something shifted in me.  I felt an emotional positive charge that I was so in need of.  I felt stronger and lighter.  That VHS changed the way I felt about myself and the way I lived in the world.  One year later I enrolled myself on a teacher training course.  I have never looked back.  Yoga has enriched my life in countless ways. I feel so blessed that the healing and transformative art of Yoga came into my life when it did and I relish the opportunity to play a part in guiding you on your Yoga journey at Sardinia Yoga.  I so look forward to meeting you there"

Niedra

Niedra walked into her first yoga class 30 years ago and fell in love. She has been a student and teacher of yoga ever since. She studied with B.K.S. Iyengar in India, is certified in Anursara and Kundalini yoga and constantly continues to study, practise and expand her knowledge. She teaches beginners through advanced students, emphasizing how to make the techniques of yoga applicable to the unique needs of each student both physically and spiritually. She currently lives and teaches in St Lucia. She has taught extensively in the USA, UK,Israel and Barbados.

You can read more at www.niedra.net

Olga Kumaran

Olga has been practising the art of Yoga for over a decade and has been teaching since 2005. She is qualified with Sun Power Yoga in England, completed advanced teacher training in South India and is qualified as a Thai yoga massage therapist. She is always replenishing her own knowledge by studying with the most inspiring teachers of our time. Her intention is to share that knowledge and assist people to take it off the mat and into daily life. Olga sees yoga as a healing therapy. She is a great believer that our bodies can tell a lot about emotional and spiritual state. By working on a physical level through Asanas we heal our bodies; through breathing (Pranayama) we heal our minds. Olga teaches all abilities from complete beginners to advanced students. Her style varies from Hatha yoga to Vinyasa Ashtanga. Her work is led by strong intuition with an emphasis on breathing and self awareness. She teaches privately throughout London and internationally.

You can read more at www.iamyoga.co.uk