My teaching
I’m a Hackney-based yoga teacher with over 20 years of personal practice and six years of teaching. My work spans Flow, Hatha and Yin with sound.
I am also trained in Reformer Pilates and will be adding Mat Pilates classes by the end of the year.
I teach in studios, run workshops and sound baths, and design wellbeing sessions for teams.
yoga Teaching approach
The Functional Approach
All of my teaching is grounded in the functional approach: teaching bodies, not shapes. I'm not interested in how a pose looks. I'm interested in what it does for the person doing it, and in helping students feel what's actually happening in their own body rather than chasing an image.
Yin Yoga & Anatomy
Anatomy is central to how I teach. Yin yoga is my specialism — I've trained for 90 hours across Norman Blair (who brought yin to the UK) and Jo Phee of the Paul Grilley lineage. Grilley is one of the originators of Yin yoga and one of the first teachers to draw attention to the natural bone and physical variations between all bodies, developing an approach that adapts the pose to the individual rather than asking the individual to match a shape. My training with Jo Phee included time at the bone morphology lab and cadaver study at King's College, seeing these skeletal variations first-hand. That experience fundamentally shaped how I teach — when you've seen how differently bodies are built at the bone level, you can never go back to teaching one shape for everyone.
How I Teach
That training shapes everything I do: slower cueing, close attention to individual bodies, and a commitment to safe, sustainable practice. In yin, I teach students never to work beyond 75% of their range — a principle from my training with Jo Phee that I carry across all my classes.
Yin Yoga & The Nervous System
I came to yin yoga because I found it profoundly helpful for managing stress — and that remains where I work most deeply in the practice. Yin offers something that more active styles can't reach: a direct route into the nervous system, helping the body shift from a state of doing into genuine rest. For many of my students, this is the most transformative part of the practice. I also programme many of my yin classes and workshops around the meridian system and Traditional Chinese Medicine, particularly where there's a seasonal element — working with the body's energy in relation to the time of year.
Dynamic & Flow Classes
My flow and dynamic classes are challenging and increasingly informed by my Pilates anatomy training. I want students to activate muscles and build real strength as they move — developing functional strength alongside a sense of flow and nervous system regulation, not just moving through shapes quickly.
Yang & Yin Combined
Some of my most popular classes combine yang and yin — active, dynamic sequences flowing into longer, quieter holds. These classes are designed to help students explore the relationship between strength and release, and above all to come into their body — developing the interoception and proprioception that keep a practice safe and honest over the long term.
Training and lineage
• Hatha Yoga, 200 hrs — Ellie Ramsby-Herrera, Leyton Yoga
• Yin Yoga incl. Yang Flow & Shoulder Anatomy, 60 hrs — Jo Phee (Paul Grilley lineage)
• Yin Yoga, 30 hrs — Norman Blair
• Menopause Yoga, 40 hrs — Petra Coveney
• Reformer Pilates — East of Eden (BASI & STOTT), qualifying Summer 2026
• Mat Pilates STOTT Level 3 — 2026
Where I teach
Regular weekly classes at EVOKE and LIM in north London, plus covers at Yoga Home and The Movement Studio.
I also run regular workshops combining yoga and sound. Plus, I collaborate with others to deliver very special seasonal and bespoke events.
Forthcoming events & workshops →
WHY yoga and pilates?
Yoga and Pilates are often treated as separate worlds, and the people who teach them usually stay in one lane. I’ve come to see them differently — as practices that genuinely support each other when both are part of how you move.
Pilates, especially on the Reformer, is known for building functional strength, stability and precision. There’s flexibility work within it, but that’s not really what it’s for.
Yoga includes strength — I teach that properly in my dynamic classes — but its deeper gifts are spinal mobility, fascial release, breath, and the slower nervous system work of yin and restorative practice.
The two inform each other.
Yoga is safer and richer when the body has underlying strength and stability — which is exactly what Reformer builds. And Reformer clients often find their bodies feel more connected, more fluid, and less braced when they add yoga — particularly yin, which works slowly into the fascia and settles the nervous system in a way that more active practice can’t reach.
So I teach both sides, and I think about them together. The active and the still, the strong and the released, the doing and the being. Different practices, one approach to the body.
Before teaching
Before training as a yoga teacher, I spent over a decade in publishing as Head of Marketing for Penguin’s non-fiction division, working on spirituality and wellbeing titles from authors including Dr Tara Swart, Brené Brown, Adam Grant and Gabor Maté. That background continues to shape how I teach and design team sessions today.