Yoga Teachers

Sandra Heider
Sandra fenced for over 11 years in national and international competitions, but decided to turn her back on a very competitive sport and started practising yoga while she was studying International Management in Edinburgh. Her first Ashtanga Yoga teachers in Edinburgh were Brian Cooper and Nawajyoti. Although she moved to England in 2002, she went back to Brian to do her teacher training (200 hour diploma with Yoga Alliance) in Edinburgh and Scoraig. In April 2007 under the guidance of David Life and Sharon Gannon she qualified as a Jivamukti teacher in New York. In June 2007 Sandra finished her month long intensive teacher training with Ana Forrest - making her a Forrest teacher associate. She is currently working on becoming a certified Forrest teacher. Other teachers who influenced her teachings and her own yoga practice include: Matthew Sweeney, John Scott and Hamish Hendry.

Simon Thompson www.yogawithsimon.co.uk
Simon has practised yoga since 1999. He completed his yoga teacher training certification in India in 2005 with the International Sivananda organisation and now teaches yoga classes around Peterborough.

Alison Duff www.calm-a-baby.co.uk
Alison qualified as an Infant Massage teacher with the International Association of Infant Massage (IAIM) in November 2001 and after spending her first year teaching local parents how to massage their babies went on to set up her company, Calm-a-Baby a year later. In 2003 Calm-a-Baby became an approved training provider of certified infant massage instructor for the IAIM and has been running courses ever since. A qualification in Baby Yoga with Birthlight followed in 2005 and most recently Alison completed an advanced certificate in Infant Aquatics, also with Birthlight. Alison cares about the relationship that parents have with their new babies and works extensively to promote and enhance the bond between parent and child. Baby massage, yoga and swimming are the tools used to facilitate this.

Joe Pierro
Joe started practising Yoga and Meditation in 2002 and soon realised the many benefits that these practices brought to his life. Early in 2007 he decided to return to the source of Yoga and completed a month long Intensive Yoga Teacher Training Course with Yoga Vidya Dham Ashram in Nasik, India. He also attends Vipassana Meditation Courses several times a year.

Georgina Perks  www.georginaperks.com
Georgina Perks, BA (Hons), MA, MA, Dip.Yoga, is a Hatha Yoga Teacher certified through America’s national Yoga Alliance. Passionate about teaching, Georgina is a registered teacher with the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association and a member of The British Wheel of Yoga.
Dedicated to the intensive practice of yoga, Georgina was motivated to teach her life-long passion whilst backpacking in India in 2001. Her experience as an academic at Cambridge University and Syracuse University, New York, led Georgina to understand the importance of yoga for maintaining balance and health when under pressure. In her career, Georgina gained extensive teaching experience at universities as well as secondary and primary schools. Georgina finally decided to devote more time to teaching yoga, using her business experience in London as a Management Consultant for KPMG and Project Office Manager for CSC to support corporate clients with their personal and professional development. Through many years of concentrated study, Georgina has experience with numerous yoga styles and healing modalities. The majority of her training has been in the Iyengar and Kripalu Yoga traditions. Georgina has spent the majority of 2007 and 2008 studying yoga through intensive training programmes at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the USA, where she also pursued her interests in meditation, yogic philosophy, nutrition and healthy living.

Georgina is the only certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher in the East of England. She has also studied Forest Yoga with Ana Forest, meditation with expert teachers Stephen Cope and Noah Levine, Kripalu YogaDance with Megha Nancy Buttenheim and Yoga for Children with Yoga Ed in New York. A keen writer, Georgina studied under Nancy Aronie in the USA and is an author on topics such as health and well-being, yoga, pre-natal yoga, meditation and personal and professional development.