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Biography


Donna has been practicing yoga for almost two decades. She has a Bachelor’s degree and a
Post Graduate Degree in Teaching Adults in Further Education and a Post Graduate PGCE in
Secondary Education Teaching. She has worked in educational settings teaching for over 20
years and has always had a keen interest in health, nutrition, exercise and wellness.

 

Skills and Certificates


In 2019 she completed her Level 2 Fitness Instructor training. In 2021 she went on to
complete her Hatha Yoga 200 hour training with Yoga Alliance Professionals and the BWY -
British Wheel of Yoga 50 hour Children’s and Teens Yoga Teacher Training.
Since qualifying she has continued her training and exploration of yoga and wellness and has
completed a 40hour Yoga Alliance Yoga Nidra Training, Yoga Campus Sound Bath Training,
Yoga Alliance 30hour Inversions and Arm Balances training. Yoga Alliance Paddleboard Yoga
Instructor Level 3, British Canoe and Kayak Paddle Safety training and Paddleboard Instructor
training. In 2024 she completed a second Yoga Alliance Professionals 200 hour Vajrasti Yoga
Teacher training.


Continued Professional Development Trainings


Donna is continually updating her trainings and has completed trainings in the following:
Yoga Campus Managing Injured Students in Yoga Classes (Low back and Hip) CPD. Yoga
Alliance trainings: Yoga for Enhancing Trauma Recovery, Neuroscience and Psychology of
the Chakras, Neuroscience of Yoga for sleep, Yoga for Mental wellbeing, The Yoga and
Neuroscience connection. Yoga Alliance Professionals; Chair Yoga.
Donna has also completed her Mental Health First Aid and First Aid training which she
updates regularly. She fully insured to teach all the trainings she has undertaken with Yoga
Alliance Professionals UK.


Current Training and CPD


Donna is currently half way through her Yoga Alliance Professionals 500+ hour Yoga Teacher
Training which she is loving. She is also training in Pranayama, Mantra and Somatic Yoga.
She has always been interested to learn more about modern postural yoga, older yoga
traditions from all cultures, the philosophy and world history of yoga in Hatha Yoga,
Buddhist Yoga, Tibetan Yoga, Taoist Yoga, Tantra and Jainism.

 

Donna

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Hatha Yoga is one of the most practiced forms of yoga. Hatha yoga is often practiced to improve strength, flexibility, release tension in the muscles, improve mental concentration, and experience meditative effects of yoga to calm both mind and body.

 

Hatha yoga is one of the most widely practiced yoga in the World. Hatha yoga is ideal for beginners and those with experience. Hatha Yoga is usually a gentler slower practice. The various poses focus on balance, strength, flexibility, and alignment of the body. 

 

Hatha Yoga includes:

Breathing techniques (Pranayama) to access the rest and digest nervous system.

 

Bandhas are used to move energy around the body and to lock energy in specific energy centres or places in the body. 

 

Meditation to experience mental and physical states of mind and to calm nervous system.

 

Mudras are used to re-direct energy around the Nadis (energy channels) to and through the energy centres and around specific areas of the body. They also help calm the mind.

Mantras (chanting) using the voice to exercise the vocals and calm the mind and release tension.

In Hatha yoga you are required to hold a pose for a period of time, rest, and then move the body to the next pose whilst coordinating and relaxing the breath. 

 

Hatha yoga is considered one of the best yoga practices for beginners. No matter whether you are a beginner or an older adult, Hatha yoga is good for most fitness and flexibility levels.