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Laura
Bissell - Founding Director, BWY DCT
Laura has been
practising Yoga for over 30 years, firstly in America and
since 1988 in Britain. During the Yoga for Health Foundation’s
Teacher Training course at Ickwell Bury in 1994/95, Laura
was impressed by the real commitment there to offer ‘yoga
for all’ and the seed was planted to open a regional
centre in the north for the whole community. Laura
refined her teaching skills with the British Wheel of Yoga's
3-year diploma course; she is now a BWY Teacher Training Diploma
Course Tutor. Laura has completed 3 BWY advanced post-diploma
modules: 1) Pranayama based on the system of Swami Gitananda,
2) Yoga for Pregnancy and 3) Ayurveda. She is a Remedial Yoga
Therapist, having done advanced training for physical disabilities
at the Yoga for Health Foundation, plus YOU & ME training
with its emphasis on learning disabilities. Further 'specialty'
training has been completed: Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga from Union
Yoga, Baby Yoga & Massage from Francoise Freedman's Birthlight
programme and Modern Pilates, a course developed by Physiotherapist
Christopher Norris, author of "Back Stability" and
"Abdominal Training, Enhancing Core Stability".
Laura has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University
of Texas and is a qualified secondary school teacher in England.
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Jane
Lewis - BWY
Hatha Yoga Teacher
Jane Lewis is a British Wheel
of Yoga (BWY) Teacher and has been teaching hatha yoga for
over 13 years. She is the previous Chairman of the West Yorkshire
Yoga Federation and served for many years as the regional
editor of the British Wheel of Yoga magazine Wheels Within.
Her wide-ranging interests in the spiritual, esoteric and
philosophical aspects of yoga are gently woven into her own
practice of hatha yoga and teaching style. Her approach to
teaching is to bring together Mind Body and Spirit through
the limbs of yoga, including postures, breathing/ pranayama,
relaxation and meditation. She places particular importance
on positive thinking, creative visualization and exploring
the symbolic language of yoga postures as a means of personal
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Robert
Goldsbrough - Sun Power Yoga Teacher (BWY Dip, Advanced Sun
Power Yoga dip)
Robert was a professional actor and singer for
12 years. He has been interested in hatha yoga for over ten
years, focussing primarily on Ashtanga. He has trained with
Ann-Marie Newland of Sun Power Yoga, qualifying in a combination
of Iyengar, Sivananda and Ashtanga traditions, and he has done
further study with David Swenson and Vera Oates. Robert's style
-- informed by the niyama 'tapas' -- relies on discipline, heat
and intense purification, making him ideally suited to teach
both Ashtanga and Hot Yoga. For the latter, Robert has been
influenced by the two foremost disciples of Bhisnu Ghosh --
James Barkan and Bikram Choudhury. |
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Caroline
Salter -
BWY Yoga Teacher
Caroline
has been a BWY Teacher for a number of years now, she has also
taught Ashtanga Yoga and is currently specialising in yoga for
babies and children. Caroline has a background and extensive
experience in working with children with special needs. |
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Judi
Needham-Crane -
Creche
Judi
has practised yoga for many years, studying gentle Hatha yoga
and the more dynamic Ashtanga. She has worked as a teaching
assistant in a local school and worked in playgroup for several
years, gaining the Diploma in Pre-School Practice. Judi’s
administration experience was gained working in local schools.
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Peter
Graves - Accountant
& Admin,
BWY Yoga Teacher
Peter
has been practising yoga for 30 years. The strongest influence
on his practice has been the viniyoga teaching he received while
living in Bristol for 5 years. During this period he also committed
himself to developing meditation practice with the Biame network
based in Australia.
Since returning to Yorkshire in 2003 Peter has completed the
BWY Diploma Course. He works as an accountant and his involvement
with YY is currently focused on its day to day accounting requirements.
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Sandy
Lincoln - Pilates
Teacher, BWY Student Teacher
Sandy trained as a dancer and dance instructor, working for
many years with a small modern dance company. She has had
wide experience teaching various forms of dance to a great
range of people from beginners to professionals and from children
to adults. Like a lot of dancers, she discovered Pilates to
be beneficial and ended up training in Pilates, which she
has been teaching for several years. She is also now halfway
through the British Wheel of Yoga teacher training diploma
course. She particularly enjoys the remedial aspects of both
Pilates and Yoga and Sandy is an assistant teacher at the
Able & Enabled Yoga class on Thursdays. Interestingly,
Sandy has a degree in Chinese! |
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