Patricia is the Course Director for Real Yoga and has been practicing yoga and meditation, since her teens. Alongside training yoga therapists, she runs a private practice and provides weekly yoga therapy sessions in the Eating Disorders Unit of an NHS Trust. She worked for 8 years at a busy private psychiatric clinic offering yoga and meditataion.  In a previous life she worked as a trainer and has an award in education and training. She has been leading Real Yoga courses in Egham since 2017.

Has been teaching  yoga for over 20 years, and working as a yoga therapist since graduating with Real Yoga in 2016. She provides accessible yoga classes at the ‘MS Centre Dorset’, on-line therapeutic classes to those living with and beyond cancer for the ‘Yes to Life’ charity, and small group classes at a local Psychiatric Hospital.

She is currently training to become a course assessor for the British Council for Yoga Therapy (BCYT). She is passionate about yoga therapy, and has been part of the Real Yoga teaching team since 2017.

Graduated as a therapist with Real Yoga in 2015, and is now a regular contributor to the courses in Egham and works as a practical assessor. Karen says about yoga therapy: “As I continue to teach and practice I encourage a slow and very simple approach, with movement following breath, making yoga more introspective and much deeper, enabling us to be more attentive to the present and to sense more about ourselves”

Jean is the Founder of Real Yoga and has decades of experience of teaching yoga in adult education, schools and hospital and as a yoga therapist. She is also a qualified healer and counsellor and was a senior tutor for the College of Healing. In 2016 Jean’s first book Yoga Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis was published, and she was invited to present her work at the International Association of Yoga Therapists conference in 2017. She continues to share her wisdom with current students via CPDs and Sangha.

Is an Associate Professor of Education and Private Practice at the University of Buckingham where she teaches on the Sports Therapy Degree Courses. She is a member of Athletic Therapy and Rehabilitation Ireland, the British Association of Sport Rehabilitation and Trainers and a Senior Fellow of Advanced Higher Education.

One of her greatest privileges to date has been working in Complex Trauma at the UK’s defence rehabilitation centre Headley Court, during the very difficult ‘Operation Herrick’ of Afghanistan. The experience changed her profoundly both as a clinician and as a person and she draws on those experiences to inspire and promote the huge changes that sports and yoga therapy can make to people’s quality of life.

Aimee discovered the healing and therapeutic powers of yoga when she qualified as a yoga  teacher 15 years ago and it is the reason she became an Osteopath – because understanding the workings of the body, and all its component parts, deepens and enriches her knowledge of the power of Yoga – and vice versa. She now uses this knowledge to train yoga teachers and therapists in functional anatomy and the use of therapeutic yoga and has a particular interest in the anatomy and function of breathing and expertise in women’s health issues. 

Katrina has over 18 years of professional counselling experience specialising in grief.  She came into that profession from a nursing background but now works as an End of Life Doula and uses her own experiences of grief to enrich her work. She teaches about grief, bereavement and end of life issues for the ‘Living Well Dying Well Foundation’. She is co-author of  the book “Surviving the Tsunami of Grief” and a valued member of the Real Yoga teaching team. She can be contacted at  tsunamiofgrief@gmail.com

Alexandra has a bachelor’s degree in music and a master’s degree in music performance. She studied opera for two years on the postgraduate opera course at the Guildhall and this led to a very successful operatic career that took her all around the world, performing at some of the world’s most prestigious venues.

She now works as a Sound Healer and trainer for the College of Sound Healing. She believes that our voices are our unique sonic tool and can be the key to unlocking patterns of emotional holding and trauma, and her professional focus is on healing and personal development through freeing the breath and through voice.

Kate Siraj is a fully qualified Ayurvedic Practitioner with a BSc in Ayurveda (Manipal, India, First Class Honours) as well as a qualified Shadow Work Group Facilitator & Coach. She completed 500 hours of clinical Ayurvedic internship training in India (Kochi, Kerala and Hassan, Karnataka) and thus is a full member of the Ayurvedic Professionals Association. She is a co-founder and lecturer at The Ayurveda Academy.