The inner hub
The inner hub is a team of individuals responsible for the flow and organisation of the collective. We rotate positions every 2 years.
Melanie Cook
A seasoned yoga practitioner with over two decades of experience, specializing in remedial yoga, prenatal yoga, and yoga for children, complemented by qualifications in massage therapy and a Level 3 Diploma in GP Referral.
Melanie began practising yoga in the early 1990’s, to try and improve a serious back condition. Her first yoga teacher introduced her to the Yoga for Health Foundation (YfHF) based at Ickwell Bury in Bedfordshire. After completing the Teacher Training with the YfHF in 1995 she then became a resident teacher at their residential centre. During her time there she continued her studies for the Remedial Teacher Training Course, which she completed in 1996. After leaving the YfHF she moved to Edinburgh, and completed an ITEC Diploma in Massage in 1997. She then trained with the Scottish Yoga Teachers Association (SYTA) completing her Diploma in 1999. In 2004 Melanie obtained her BWY Foundation Course 1 Tutor License and has subsequently run two BWY Foundation Courses in 2005 and 2007. Also in 2004 she completed the BWY Yoga for Children Certificate. In 2005 she completed both BWY, Yoga for Pregnancy Teaching Certificate and the Teaching Teachers Yoga for Children Module, with Judy Cameron and Swami Vedantananda Saraswati respectively. In 2015 she completed a Level 3 Diploma in GP Referral.
Sophia Ayesha Ansari
A radical dreamer, intuitive and devotional Sufi
Ancestrally I am second generation Indian diaspora also of French Spanish heritage, brought up in rural Wales in a home filled with spiritual Indian stories that opened my heart. My core training is in yoga teaching & therapy, psychotherapeutic counselling , Ayurvedic counselling, lifestyle & massage therapy and polyvagal-informed restorative psychotherapy for trauma .
I have written and presented extensively on decolonising yoga structures and believe in values rather than regulation as the true 'yogic' way to achieve accountability and practice in our profession. I am aligned with Sufi -Sakhi lineages of Yoga. I have 30 years’ experience teaching and working therapeutically with yoga and specialised in antenatal yoga, postnatal yoga, birth preparation, baby yoga and massage in my local community (Cardiff, South Wales). I also worked with a local charity to deliver community yoga therapy to female survivors of gender violence and human trafficking. I currently offer somatic bodywork & yoga therapy to women recovering from pelvic/womb/heart based trauma, shock, injury or loss and I run Womb Gaia trauma informed yoga therapy trainings.
Yvonne Austen
Yvonne’s Journey: A Lifelong Exploration of Yoga and Wisdom
Yvonne has been a life-long practitioner and student of yoga and continues to teach classes from her studio in Newburgh, Fife. She has also been a teacher trainer and is a yoga therapy trainer. “Over the course of my journey through the last 50 years Yoga has been the guiding principle and continues to be so today”.
Yvonne has studied with many teachers internationally and continues to learn from both teachers and students alike. Over the last 15 years the teachings of Shrikrishna Bhushan Tengshe who teaches pranayama/meditation and philosophy as a practice during silent retreats, became the mainstay of the way Yvonne teaches and practices.
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