Louise Palmer-Masterton
Louise is the founder of Camyoga, and was introduced to Yoga aged 11, whilst at school. The profound effect of that first Yoga class has remained with her to this day. Since then, Louise has studied various forms of Hatha Yoga, in particular Iyengar, then Ashtanga. She was very influenced by the power of the Ashtanga system, and has been a devoted practitioner since the mid 90′s. It was Ashtanga that was the driving force behind the creation of Camyoga.
The births of her two daughters at home, combined with her experience of Yoga, meditation, the power of mind, and a chance encounter with Frederick Leboyer (author of Birth without Violence), led Louise to new style of teaching Active Birth. She is also Pregnancy Yoga teacher, and has trained as a doula with renowned obstetrician Michel Odent. Louise has a background in the world of music and the arts, and before founding Camyoga she ran a digital arts company.
Louise has more recently trained as a Transformational Breath facilitator, and is enjoying exploring this wonderful work both in her own practice and with others.
Louise would like to thank all the friends and teachers who continue to inspire her practice. Friends and family for their love, support and encouragement in setting up the Camyoga centre, and the very many ‘ordinary’ people Louise has met on her path through life, who have given her spiritual guidance every step of the way.
Louise Lloyd
From childhood to early thirties Louise trained and competed horses professionally. In the late 90′s she trained as a crystal therapist and then in 2007 as a Yoga teacher.
Louise is one of Camyoga’s most popular teachers. Through her interest in balancing our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual self, Louise’s style is both thorough and inspirational in equal measure.
Louise aims to pass on simple, authentic living both on and off the mat, and this is evident in her meticulous but humourous teaching style.
Jennifer Hersch
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Jennifer teaches Hot Yoga drawing upon her Bikram yoga practice and more than 30 years of experience as a dancer. Besides teaching yoga, Jennifer is the co-founder and artistic director of Cambridge Contemporary Dance and the Head of the MBA programme at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. She trained mostly in ballet, contemporary dance and flamenco in New York, Spain and the UK with such schools as the Richmond School of Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, The Place and the renowned gypsy family Los Farrucos and Omayra Amaya. She was a soloist with Repertory Dance Theatre in the U.S. and at 16 received a scholarship as the Most Promising Emerging Choreographer with the U.S. National Dance festival. Her work has spanned across leading She holds an Honors BA in Comparative Literature and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in South Asian Studies and Sanskrit where she concentrated on yoga philosophy and the study of paradox in Mahayana Buddhism. |
Mark Stevens
Mark began his Yoga journey with Sivananda and Iyengar in the late 80′s while at art school. In 2003 Mark undertook Sivananda Teacher training in Kerela Southern India, it was a life changing experience and on his retun he converted part of his home into a yoga studio and started teaching. He qualified as a meditation teacher with Swami Saradananda in London in 2006. Mark returned to the sivananda ashram in the himalayas in 2007 for advanced teacher training with swami govindananda.
By 2007 he had also discovered Jivamukti Yoga and new inspiration in the form of modern day yoga masters David Life and Sharon Gannon and Yogeshwari.He undertook teacher training with them in New York in 2009 discovering a new yoga family.
Mark offers love, gratitude and all his efforts to the Gurus who have guided him on the path: Swami Sivananda. Swami Vishnu Devananada. David Life. Sharon Gannon. Swami Govindananda. Ruth Lauer-Manenti. Sandra Hieder.Prahlada. Swami Kailasananda. Sasha Perryman. Swami Saradananda. Swami Satyananda Saraswati. And all the blessed yoga students who have given him the opportunity to serve.
Pilar Carrillo
Pilar’s teaching has been influenced by many forms of Hatha yoga including: Iyengar, ashtanga, Bikram, and vinyasa flow. She enjoys most the dynamism and creativity of vinyasa flow. She finds that the yoga classroom is a wonderful place for ‘aha’ moments and works to create an atmosphere for her students to have their own.
Pilar’s yoga practice began with Bikram in 2004. She enjoyed the discipline of this practice and eventually explored yoga through Yogaworks in Los Angeles. She has learned from and been influenced by Annie Carpenter, Max Strom, Natasha Rizopoulos, Kathryn Budig, and many others both on and off the mat.
After gaining a bachelor of arts in theatre arts from Cornell University in 2003, Pilar spent several years as an actress in Los Angeles. She received her yoga teaching certification in 2008 and In 2010 began writing about yoga and health. She hopes to continue learning and sharing the gifts yoga has given her with others for years to come.
Howard Daly
Howard began his Yoga journey when he discovered the power of the Ashtanga system. Since then he has gone on to become one of Cambridge’s most popular teachers, enthusing literally thousands of people to sign up to this powerful method. Howard runs the Camyoga Mysore classes, and weekly led classes, and is himself a second series student, studying with Denise Martin-Harker and John Scott.
Originally from a fitness background, Howard is also a vastly experienced Pilates teacher whose passion and enthusiasm for Yoga and Pilates is evident in all his teaching, and infectious to all those he encounters. Howard has a deep understanding of anatomy and alignment, that he applies to all of his teaching.
He is also a Thai Massage therapist, and runs a clinic on Fridays from the Centre
Anna Jackson
Anna is known for her life-affirming and exuberant teaching style, offering her years of experience with the potent therapeutics that embody Hatha Yoga. A student of yoga since 1986, Anna’s study of hatha yoga, pranayama, yoga therapeutics and philosophy led her to become start teaching in 2003 and fully qualified in 2006. Anna has always enjoyed learning and has been inspired by teachers such as Claire Missingham, Tara Fraser, Baron Baptiste, Dharma Mittra as well as the teachers in Cambridge who are of a very high standard. Anna spent 20 years in senior management in the Biotech healthcare arena living in the USA and Europe.
Paula Ahlberg
Originally trained in Hatha, Paula became drawn to the Ashtanga system as a more dynamic discipline. She has trained with the worlds leading Vinyasa Flow teacher, Shiva Rea, and has assisted her on workshops.
Paula has more recently completed Hayley Winter’s Yoga Sports Science training course, and is now a Yoga sports specialist, and will be running a sports injury clinic from the centre, diagnosing and treating injuries with sepcially tailored Yoga sequences and postures.
Paula’s true love of Yoga and embodying the flow of movement is expressed in her teaching.
Andrea Kwiatkowski
Andrea Kwiatkowski trained as a professional dancer and worked extensively around the world where her interest in yoga and eastern philosophy began.
A DCT for the BWY currently teaching her first course in Cambridgeshire. Andrea is an Advanced certified with Jivamukti yoga after completing her certification in New York in 2005 with Sharon Gannon and David Life. Andrea is also certified to teach Yin yoga after studying with Sarah Powers since 2003 and is a Restorative yoga teacher under the guidance of Judith Hanson Lasater. She is 800 hrs certified for Yoga Alliance.
She has studied and taught in India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Spain, Egypt, France, Turkey and Australia as well as teaching in Cambridgeshire where she lives. Andrea set up Santoshayoga giving a percentage of all profits to animal welfare and charities both here and abroad which includes Azahar a foundation for teaching yoga to children in the Third World. Look to www.santoshayoga.co.uk for details. She continues to teach and be involved at the Jivamukti yoga centre in London’s Notting Hill . She produced a range of Yoga CD’s in 2007.
Andrea believes that yoga can enable us to become self aware and fill our lives with compassion and love. She offers thanks and blessings for all her teachers and to her students for constantly inspiring her to do, and be better.
Be the change you wish to see in the world Gandhi
Om shanti
Emma Lindsay
Emma first discovered Yoga over 20 years ago, then about 5 years ago wandered into Louise Palmer’s Ashtanga class and immediately found that the vinyasa approach had a transforming effect not only on her body but also her mind.
She has been privileged to gain a deeper understanding of the Ashtanga vinyasa system from her teachers Louise Palmer, Abby Hoffmann and Denise Martin-Harker, and has attended inspirational workshops with Manju Jois, Hamish Hendry, and Brian Cooper.
Emma is now exploring the challenges of 2nd series Ashtanga and she feels passionately about the benefits of Yoga in all areas of life.
Emma’s background is in early years education, specialising in special needs, and she works with young children and their families at a Cambridge Children’s Centre.
Emma is a graduate of Camyoga’s teacher training programme.
Rachael Moore
Rachael has been practising yoga for over eleven years . Over this period of time, she has experienced many different styles and approaches to yoga, most notably iyengar, ashtanga and vinyasa flow. As well as antenatal yoga throughout her three pregnancies. Rachael’s personal practice and teaching draws on all of these experiences as well as from attending inspirational workshops from the likes of Francoise Freedman, Claire Missingham, Abby Hoffman and Hayley Winter. Before the birth of her third child, Rachael worked as a speech and language therapist with children and young adults with profound learning difficulties.
Lucy Hocknell
Lucy first became aware of Yoga at age 15 when her grandmother, an avid practitioner, introduced her to it; she has practiced and studied Yoga ever since.
Lucy originally trained as a dancer at Bretton Hall, Leeds University, before moving to London in 1995 where she trained as a fitness instructor and began her Pilates training with Pilates-based Body Awareness (PBBA). Lucy subsequently also did some further Pilates matwork training with the Physical Mind Institute, Santa Fe. Lucy then became an Assistant Teacher with PBBA for 3 years before starting to teach her own Pilates and Dance Conditioning classes in corporate gyms and health clubs in London, which she did for 12 years.
Lucy also enjoys and teaches Vinyasa Flow Yoga, having trained at ‘It’s Yoga’ in San Francisco. Lucy enjoys teaching Pilates and Yoga very much and is dedicated to giving the best instruction and motivation to people who attend her classes. Lucy has been teaching across Cambridgeshire for the last 5 years and is very happy now to be teaching Pilates at Camyoga.
Michael Balshaw
Michael was first introduced to Iyengar yoga whilst living in Japan in the mid 90’s. He has been continually drawn to the methodical and progressive teaching of the Iyengar system with its emphasis on alignment and how to work correctly in the pose.
Michael continues to learn more about Iyengar yoga regularly attending classes, workshops and intensives. He holds a Junior Intermediate II teaching certificate which means his teaching and practice have been regularly assessed.
Michael’s passion for yoga is evident in his teaching. Classes tend to be very popular as he delivers the class in a lively manner whilst asking for the student to stay deeply focussed upon the actions of the pose. He aims to teach you how to do a pose correctly which hopefully improves your practice.
Michael is also an acupuncturist and sports massage therapist and taught anatomical based classes at Westminster University for 5 years. This knowledge greatly informs his teaching and practice.
Nikki Davies
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Ellie Coats
Ellie began practicing yoga in 2002 after many years of sport and modern dance. Alongside a growing interest in Buddhist meditation, she immediately felt a deep connection to the practice.
In 2008 she completed her 200hrs teacher training certificate, a process which focussed on precise asana technique and many hours of seated practice. Specialising in teaching yoga to athletes, Ellie supervises the physical development of CU Lightweight Rowing men’s programme, working on flexibility and core strength in asana classes, as well as assessing and addressing injuries. She also teaches members of the GB women’s lightweight rowing squad.
Ellie’s yoga is strongly influenced by her shiatsu practice, which emphasises the traditional Chinese map of the body, and by the holistic approach of Anatomy in Motion. She trained at the Shiatsu College in London, specialising in Zen shiatsu.
Hermione Fairbairn
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Natalie Schmidt
Natalie is a certified Bikram instructor, having trained in Los Angeles in 2003.
Natalie is currently in Cambridge doing an MPhil in Counselling and Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents at the University of Cambridge. She also has an Advanced Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescent, and a certificate in Integrative Body Psychotherapy.
Natalie loves the mind body connection yoga provides and how yoga continually teaches us how to live life with grace, patience and awe.
Natalie teaches at Bikram Yoga Altona in Hamburg, Germany.
Gunveer Mahandru
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Beverley Nolan
Beverley Nolan is one of the regions most respected and experienced teachers, with more than 20 years experience. She is also a Somatic Movement Therapist with a client practice in Cambridge. She leads workshops and training modules in traditional yoga practices, experiential anatomy and physiology, infant developmental movement patterns and Authentic Movement.
Beverley studies annually with Donna Farhi and considers Judith Lasater and Richard Rosen to be significant teaching influences. She is inspired by Krishnamurti and the contemporary writings of Rupert Spira, the interviews and music at the Urban Guru Cafe, the paintings of Hammershoi and the poetry of Mary Oliver.
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Allison Gibson
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Rebecca Warner-Hodgkin
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Kasia Badziak
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Karolina Jilkova
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Elma Jenkins
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Ethan Sklom
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Kate Connell
Kate is currently doing her PhD in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She moved over from Australia for her studies and at Camyoga has found a home away from home. She was introduced to yoga as a child but has more recently realised the profound impact it has in her life. As someone who frequently travels as a part of her job, she enjoys the anywhere, anytime aspect of yoga.
Working at Camyoga has inspired Kate to delve further in her interest of yoga and she aims to begin the Camyoga teacher training Yoga Diploma in May.
Kate loves gardening and grows the centre’s wheatgrass.
Tom Lynch
Tom works full time in reception. A newbie to the Yoga scene, Tom is hopelessly outnumbered by female staff, but makes a mean cup of coffee and manages to maintain good humour in spite of it.
He is currently being forced to take an Ashtanga Yoga course…. Watch this space….
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