The Yoga Room

Join me as I talk to Julie Martin, a senior yoga teacher, embodied movement practitioner and leader of the intelligent yoga rebellion! In this episode we talk about her journey towards breaking free of linear movement patterns, embracing ageing via strength training and just becoming a badass!

In this episode, I talk to Nick Higgins, one of the CEOs and joint founder of Hot Pod, a rapidly growing yoga business that has opened 60 studios in the UK since 2013, with more in the pipeline. Nick's been teaching for ten years and his approach is of down-to-earth accessibility - demystifying the practice and sharing the benefits. We talked about living inside and outside London, what it was...

Season 2 kicks off with one of the leading lights of American Yoga. In this episode I talk to Amber Jean aka Rocket Girl. Amber Jean is the founder of YogaAh in Cincinnati Ohio and keeper of the Rocket Yoga Lineage. She trained with and worked with the original 'Bad Man' Larry Shultz , founder of the Rocket for over 20 years. In this podcast we talk about the history of the Rocket and why so many...

Photo credit: Jen Armstrong Last but certainly not least. I end the year with this frank and tender interview with author Nadia Gilani, we discuss the tensions within the 'Yoga Industrial Complex' body image, disordered eating as part of the yoga practice and more. Her brilliant Book 'The Yoga Manifesto: How Yoga Saved Me And Why it  Needs to Save Itself ' has been on my bedside table since it cam...

After stumbling into yoga after burning out working in the music industry. London-based teacher Dina never expected to be teaching full time, let alone running her own home studio - Golden Door - and hosting successful international yoga retreats. This January will be her 14th year of running her signature retreat in Goa, A New Years Revolution on the Beach which will now be at the revamped and am...

Norman began practicing yoga in the early 1990s and he has been teaching since 2001. His practice and teaching embrace both Ashtanga yoga and Yin yoga as well as mindfulness meditation. Through significant periods of training with teachers such as Alaric Newcombe, Judith Hanson Lasater, Richard Freeman and Sarah Powers, he has gained the Yoga Alliance 500-hour accreditation. He believes that yoga...

Ella Tighe is a Bradford-based Dance artist and yoga teacher. She started practicing Ashtanga Yoga with Ervin Menyhart 10 years ago and since then yoga has sat beside and around her dance practice. She became an apprentice to her teacher Ervin and undertook a 200-hour teacher training through a traditional Ashtanga apprenticeship route. She took further trainings in Mandala Vinyasa and Rocket with...

Claire Missingham is a leading teacher who has over 22 years of experience. Claire loves telling stories, igniting a passion for spiritual (non-dogmatic) practice, loves people getting to know people and is a champion for lifting as you climb. Having been diagnosed with auto-immune disease Coeliac over 18 years ago, she has used her deep knowledge of nutrition to keep herself not just well, but Ra...

Mollie McClelland Morris is a Senior Yoga teacher and trainer. Originally from Pittsburgh, USA she now lives in the UK with her husband and two children. Mollie was a dancer for many years and yoga kept coming into her life. It was a practice that brought balance to her body and mind. After years of practising with injuries, she discovered The Franklin Method which changed her perspective complete...

David Keil was introduced to yoga in 1989 by his Tai Chi Chuan teacher. Both the Tai Chi and Yoga practice at the ripe age of 17 began his research into his own mind-body connections. His search continued through massage therapy where he discovered many insights and affirmations of what he had been exploring and finding on his own through his practices. One of the most important elements was the s...

Cathy Underwood is an award-winning yoga teacher with over 30 years of teaching experience. She specialises in yoga provision for clinical populations, supporting individuals and groups, living with complex mental health conditions, addiction disorders, learning disabilities and special educational needs. Cathy’s methodology blends somatic practices with Mindfulness and evidence-based neuroscience...

Hayley Winter, the founder of the Institute of Yoga Sports Science ®, BWY Dip, E-RYT 500, YACEP, lives in Brooklyn, New York. For the past 30 years, Hayley has been a yoga educator, a Yoga Sports Scientist, an elite movement consultant, and an early pioneer of online yoga education. For the past decade, Hayley and her team have been teaching yoga online and working with yoga teachers who want to s...

Davy Jones co-founded the Brighton Yoga Festival in late 2013 with Mikaela Perera. He has been centrally involved in the annual festivals since 2014, and the establishment of Brighton Yoga Foundation as a registered charity. Davy has been a yoga student since 1999 and a teacher for over eleven years. He teaches in Brighton & Sussex and runs yoga holidays around the world with his partner Janaki as...