About Paula
Paula is the co-owner and manager of Yoga Meditation Healing and a full-time yoga teacher. She is the creator and director of our very own Yoga Teacher Training Course which provides an authentic, accessible and supportive framework to equip trainees with knowledge, skills and confidence in developing their unique voice and style as a yoga teacher.
Paula qualified as a Yoga Teacher in 2011 with Brenda Louw of ChillOut Yoga, Movement and Anatomy (now East Of England Yoga School) in the beautiful surroundings of Aberfoyle, Scotland.
As a former school teacher, Paula has been an educator and facilitator for over twenty-five years. Paula teaches with a functional, therapeutic, invitational, explorative and accessible approach. Her effective communication and clarity of guidance and instruction ensures appropriate variations and modifications for her students to find their own level of depth and ease within their practice. She encourages breath awareness, somatic exploration and self-enquiry to facilitate students’ self awareness.
Paula teaches creative and carefully crafted Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Therapeutic and Somatic classes. Paula also teaches therapeutic yoga on a 1:1 basis. She regularly works with those experiencing stress, anxiety, fatigue and chronic tension. Paula’s teachings assist in the regulation of the nervous system, working with breathing practices and subtle somatic movements to soothe the mind-body and create more ease and well-being…Read More
About Pól
Pól qualified as a Yoga instructor in 2007 during a 6 month stay in Mysore, India. Training under Bharath Shetty of Yoga Indea and completing a 320 hour course in Classical Hatha Yoga. He returned to Mysore in 2012 to complete a 500 hour advanced Classical Ashtanga Yoga teacher training course with Bharath. Between 2012 and 2014 he studied Vinyasa Krama Yoga under Srivatsa Ramaswami, who is the longest standing student of the legendary Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, outside of the teacher’s immediate family.
About Sam
Sam had been practicing with Yoga Meditation Healing since 2009 and completed their inaugural 200 Hours Yoga Teacher Training in 2022. In her classes, Sam aims to create a safe space to open up, to explore the moments and shapes that our bodies can make and to reflect. With Sam’s nurturing energy, each individual is supported in developing their own unique balance between challenge and deep relaxation, rest and release while navigating the physical, mental and energetic journey that is yoga.
Sam also offers Massage appointments at Yoga Meditation Healing. She has an intuitive touch and can’t wait to nudge the tension out of your muscles.
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About Clare
Clare teachers Chair Yoga which includes strength and balance and somatic approaches for addressing “stuck patterns” in our bodies.
Clare worked in the NHS for more than 30 years, initially in nursing and then in public health. She then trained to become a yoga teacher in 2017 with seasonal yoga, She has continued her development around making yoga more accessible with training in Exercise to Music and personal training qualifications. Further yoga training she has undertaken is Yoga for desk workers and chair yoga dance. She is currently undertaking Yoga and Somatics for healing and recovery developing apractice that helps us take a compassionate nurturing approach tp our selves and our bodies.
Clare is also a qualified hypnotherapist and has a special interest in chronic pain.
About Nicola
Nicola has practiced as a student at Yoga Meditation Healing since 2016 and completed her 200 hours Seasonal Yoga teacher training in 2023. Nicola also undertook 50 hours Yin Yoga training at Yoga Meditation Healing in 2024 and brings the Yin functional approach to all her teachings.
In her classes you will find a slow, powerful practice with an emphasis on breath and use of props to enable greater flexion and extension. Always a student, you will also see Nicola on the mat at Yoga Meditation Healing and she attends classes and workshops at other studios to extend her learning. Everything she learns, she brings back to her own teaching. As a full time mother of three, she understands the value of taking time for yourself to stretch and strengthen your body and calm your mind. This is te aim for every class she teaches.
About Dan
Dan has a deep passion for yoga, meditation and sound, and their capacity to foster connection, realisation, and transformation. Through experiencing the polarities of recovery, spiritual discipline, and neurodivergence, yoga is teaching him to navigate life with fluidity, balance, and equanimity.
His 10+ years as a yoga student spans philosophical , devotional, and musical traditions, with over 500 hours of formal training in mind-body practices. Trauma-informed training – including yoga therapy and mindfulness for addiction recovery, as well as meditation and peer-support facilitation for mental health – have given him tools for emotional regulation and embodied presence.
During his BA (hons) in Applied Music, he expanded on his study of Hindustani Classical and mantra music, by exploring the yoga of sound as a therapeutic modality and examining the social dynamics community music-making. In his events, he weaves together yoga, meditation, sound and interactive music to create immersive, socially engaged experiences.
In an increasingly individualistic, atomised society, Dan believes deeply in the power of nurturing both inner and outer connection. He shares practices across diverse communities – including care – experienced youth, new scots, people with additional support needs, and those in mental health, addiction recovery, and criminal justice settings – bridging ancient and contemporary ideas to foster accessible entry points for people to find the yoga that works for them.
Paula & Pól firmly believe that Yoga is for Every Body, Every Mind and Every One.
