Katy Appleton

Katy trained as a ballet dancer with the Royal Ballet School and English National Ballet School and then spent eight years dancing professionally with some of the major ballet companies.

To balance the very extreme physical side to ballet she began to do simple breathing, relaxation and meditation techniques that helped her stay centred.

It seemed a natural progression to her from dance to yoga. So in 1998 she qualified as a yoga teacher.

Having been a dancer she found that it gave her an extra ordinary vision on how bodies move which has been invaluable to both her and her students , especially with their posture and alignment. Katy is a Sivananda, Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow Yoga trained teacher and adapts some of these methods within her classes to suit the students she is working with, as she says 'after all we are all different aren't we?'

She has also studied with many wonderful teachers and has qualified herself to teach pregnancy yoga, baby yoga and postnatal yoga, along with studies into chanting and how sound can cleanse and uplift us.