Ana Wood
Over a decade ago, Ana discovered Bikram yoga while recovering from a prolapsed disc. After a discectomy, yoga became a cornerstone of her healing journey, helping her develop the strength, flexibility, and resilience to thrive. For the past ten years, she’s been honoured to teach Original hot yoga classes, and for the past five years, she has taught Dynamic Hot Pilates. In addition to teaching, Ana is passionate about endurance sports. She has completed numerous triathlons, including a full Iron Man and an ultra marathon. These pursuits not only challenge her but also deepen her understanding of the body’s capabilities, complementing her teaching practice.
Ana firmly believes that the discipline and mindfulness cultivated through yoga, Pilates and endurance training can transform every aspect of life. She feels it is a privilege to share this journey with others, helping them unlock their potential and achieve greater balance in both body and mind.
Ana teaches: Original | Dynamic Hot Pilates | DHP (KG)
Bernadine Pritchett
Until 2016 when injury threw a curveball, Bernadine was an elite masters’ competitive runner having won World and European titles in middle distance events. She transitioned to low-impact exercise including Inferno Hot Pilates (DHP at TGR) and in 2018 trained to be an instructor following up with the weights training in 2019.
Expect challenge, clear technique explanations and exhilaration in Bernadine’s classes. Get ready to sweat and burn calories!
Bernadine teaches: Dynamic Hot Pilates | DHP (KG
Fiona Allen
Fiona loves the diversity of teaching different styles of classes and seeing how much the students constantly progress. After working professionally as a dancer, Fiona wanted to find a fitness substitute that would give her the same strength, muscle tone and fitness similar to her previous ballet training.
Fiona went to her first Bikram class over 20 years ago and soon realised it had all the elements she had been looking for and completed her Bikram yoga teacher training in 2014 in Thailand. She loves the discipline and the challenge every class gives her and the long-term benefits of a longer and healthier life. Fiona enjoys sharing her passion for Bikram yoga through teaching. In 2017 she completed the Inferno Hot Pilates Level 1. teacher training, the first to be held in the UK and she was integral in the start-up of the now hugely popular Inferno Hot Pilates classes. She has completed the level 2 Teacher Training in 2019 taking classes to the next level.
Fiona teaches: Core Control Hot Pilates | Dynamic Hot Pilates | DHP (KG) | Original
Hannah Pharoah
Hannah is a North London based Hatha, Vinyasa teacher. She completed her training in Rishikesh, India, which birthed a teaching style rooted in tradition.In class you can expect a strong and sweaty flow, playful and soulful, with an emphasis on the breath. Her intention is to hold space for students to delve deeper into their practice, to build confidence and awareness of themselves. She focuses on attuning to the needs of the individual with an emphasises on intention over achievement.
Hannah teaches: Flow | Bliss
Helen Allemano Hegarty
Helen was first introduced to yoga by her grandmother as an infant and has been hooked ever since. In 2011 she travelled to Goa, India and completed her yoga teacher training with Yogachara Lalit Kumar at the Himalaya Yoga Valley Centre.
Since then, Helen has been teaching a variety of yoga styles and practices to a wide range of students in London, Los Angeles and online. As someone with scoliosis (a curvy spine), Helen understands that yoga is a completely unique experience for everyone. It is not a one size fits all kind of deal. Finding your own expression in your practice is one of the many tools that you’ll come away with from classes with Helen. The ability to intuitively take ownership of your practice and the self- sufficiency to adjust yourself according to your needs on any given day. Helen will guide you to feel confident, safe and in control of your own journey
Helen teaches: Flow | Yin and Gong Deep Relaxation | Bliss
Jennifer Knowles
Jennifer comes from a professional background in Dance. She moved to London in 2016 to pursue her career after various contracts on cruise ships. She fell in love with the practice of Yoga as it helped her manage with the hard work and competition of the dance industry. Learning quickly how Yoga was inclusive of everyone. Jennifer completed her ‘200 hour training in Vinyasa and Hatha at ‘One Yoga Thailand’. Since then she has studied and gained her 60hour qualification in Yin Yoga through ‘Sampoorna Yoga.’
She is an avid learner, with a yearn to constantly grow and evolve within her practice. In Jennifer’s classes expect to synchronise breath and movement as you move through the Asanas, letting go of any unwelcome stress.
Jennifer teaches: Flow | Bliss
Krzysztof Grabowski
Krzysztof has accumulated an extensive collection of trainings throughout his 20 years’experience in the yoga world, and 12 years active teaching. These include trainings with Sivananda, Bikram, Fierce Grace, Stewart Gilchrist and Norman Blair.In Krzysztof’s classes you should expect a focus on exploring physicality. Be this in a dynamic flow setting, a stronger more traditional Hatha format or going inward to investigate the softness and space within one’s body.He motivates students to explore their capabilities and delve deeper into themselve sboth within their bodies and mind.
His classes hold space for students to breathe mindfully whilst nurturing beginners, advance practitioners and everyone in-between,with the same care and consideration.
Krzysztof teaches: Flow | Reset | Bliss | Core Control Hot Pilates | Dynamic Hot Pilates
Matthew Burnett
Working in IT in the mid 2000’s, Matthew lived the typical fast-paced London lifestyle. Like many in their 20’s, his idea of stress relief was partying hard. Then, in 2007, dragged by a friend to his first hot yoga class he realised he needed to improve his health. People in their 60’s and 70’s in the class were holding postures with ease that he couldn’t manage for more than a few seconds. It was humbling, but something clicked. His increasing interest in yoga led him to India for two-month long residential Teacher Training programs. Those months remain some of the most inspiring and life-changing of his life.
Upon returning to London, he trained in Hot Yoga with Fierce Grace and went on to teach with them for several years. Since then he has also started teaching Dynamic Hot Pilates. His classes are fun, his instructions are clear for newcomers and regular practitioners alike. He loves teaching more than ever. Matthew has taught in Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Italy, and all over the UK in studios, gyms, festivals, and events. Every class, every student, every step of the journey continues to teach him something new.
Matthew teaches: Bliss | Dynamic Hot Pilates | Flow | Reset
Melanie Fismer
Melanie brings over two decades of dedicated yoga practice and nearly twenty years of teaching experience to her students. Since beginning her yoga journey in the late 90’s, she has cultivated expertise across multiple disciplines including Vinyasa, Yin, Hot Yoga, and Shakti Dance from the Kundalini lineage. Her offerings extend beyond traditional yoga to include Sound Healing Practitioner Training and Cacao Initiation, creating a holistic approach to wellness that addresses the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit.
Melanie’s path as a healer and teacher was profoundly shaped when her father suffered an avoidable stroke at just 38 years old, leaving him partially paralysed and unable to speak or work. This life-changing event ignited her deep commitment to understanding how balance and harmony can be woven into daily life, revealing her true calling: guiding others back to their home note through yoga, dance, sound healing, and sacred ceremony. Today, Melanie creates safe spaces for profound transformation, helping students reconnect with their authentic selves through ancient practices that heal modern disconnection.
Melanie teaches: Yin and Gong Deep Relaxation
Natasha Junor
My journey with yoga began in 2011, when – aged 16 – my mother lovingly “dragged” me to my first class. What I thought would be a one-off turned into the beginning of a lifelong practice of returning to myself. Over the years, my relationship with yoga has shifted and evolved – meeting me exactly where I am, exactly when I need it. In 2016, I completed my first teacher training in Hatha/Sivananda yoga. My intention was not to teach, but to deepen my own understanding. Still, a quiet voice in the back of my mind kept replaying my teacher’s words: “Not all will teach, but you must.”
Since then, my love for learning has taken me through countless hours of training in Hot Yoga (Bikram Method), Yin, Rocket, and Mandala. Today, teaching is not just my career – it is my passion and my life’s work. I guide my students with playfulness and curiosity, creating space for them to explore both movement and stillness. My hope is that, even if only for a fleeting moment, you feel that sense of presence – that tiny glimmer is all you need to begin.
Natasha teaches: Flow | Reset | Bliss
Nicola Gambrill
Nicola has been practicing yoga on and off since her teens, but it was hot yoga that really got her hooked. She completed her first Yoga Teacher Training in 2015 and since then various other training courses including supporting students working with injury and most recently Yin yoga. Nicola believes that yoga is for everyone regardless of age, size, current fitness or flexibility level.
Yoga has made her stronger physically and mentally, more determined and focused, more balanced and calmer, helped her deal with anxiety issues, physical injuries and all the usual stress and challenges we all face in our daily lives. She loves teaching as a way to help others discover the benefits of yoga to both body and mind.
Nicola teaches: Bliss | Flow | Reset
Omae Woolnough
Omae started practicing yoga years ago at her local gym, but it wasn’t until she discovered the hot version that she truly fell in love with it! Omae has been teaching since 2014, in and out of the hot room, and has taken every opportunity to further her training through various courses, focusing on injuries, sequencing, and restorative yoga. She has also taught in schools, yoga for boxers and privately. Omae loves teaching all ages, shapes and sizes and believes yoga should be accessible to everyone.
She likes to make people feel welcome and comfortable in their own bodies but also likes to challenge perceptions about what’s possible. The growth that happens within this practice can have profound benefits on so many levels, it’s always a joy to share, both as teacher and student. Omae’s style is down to earth but soulful, with an emphasis on kindness, grounding, breath. and great music!
Omae teaches: Bliss | Bliss 60 | Dynamic Hot Pilates | Flow
Rachael Lowe
Rachael is a yoga and Inferno Hot Pilates (IHP) instructor. Rachael began her yoga journey over 20 years ago as a way of managing her health and well-being. Initially her focus was on gentle styles of yoga for mental health, but her interest soon developed to include more vigorous styles such a Bikram, Ashtanga and more general forms of dynamic vinyasa flow.
In more recent years she has discovered strength and HIIT training and has found that IHP has had a dramatic effect on her strength, power and stamina in yoga classes – and love for life in general!
Rachael teaches: Dynamic Hot Pilates | DHP (KG)
Rebecca Rodden
Rebecca has ‘done’ yoga all of her life. She did not discover it until she had her children. Rebecca was the person who would skip out of class before Savasana. Burnt out and disillusioned from life in the corporate world and constantly juggling, yoga has been Rebecca’s salvation. She gets a buzz sharing in such an uplifting experience. For Rebecca, yoga is about the balance between strength and flexibility, exertion, and releasing. So, her classes combine both strength and mobility work in a dynamic, Vinyasa Flow style to calm your mind and boost your mood. Expect to move, sweat, and breathe.
Rebecca teaches and practices Pilates for its foundations in core strength. She wants everybody to experience the power of a strong core, it is a game changer for your posture, yoga practice, but also in daily life. To complement this, Rebecca moves to a slower based restorative class where you hold poses for longer, working into the fascia and grounding by connecting to the breath. You will leave feeling both physically and energetically uplifted.
Rebecca teaches: Bliss | Core Control Hot Pilates | Dynamic Hot Pilates | Flow
Sam Hamilton
Sam has a deep love and passion for Yoga and Pilates as it has helped transform her life! She started practicing Yoga and Pilates around 15 years ago. After her first class on the mat, it was clear there was no turning back. She believes that this mind, body, soul practice has a profound effect on both the mental, physical and spiritual state, thus finding her calling in training and becoming a Yoga/Pilates Instructor. Sam feels the importance of helping and looking after other’s well-being as a natural part of life and truly feels the pleasure in seeing and hearing about the positive changes and profound effects it has on their journey to a healthier, happier lifestyle.
Sam believes one of the most important things is to feel and show real empathy, care, and kindness for every individual as each person is on a unique journey to find balance and calm in this ever increasingly hectic world.
Sam teaches: Reset
Sharon Long
Sharon has always been motivated to exercise since a child, where she excelled in the 100 meters at school and for her local running club. Since then Sharon trained as an aerobic instructor whilst also working for a publishing house.
She then went onto train as one of the UK’s first Inferno Hot Pilates instructors in 2017, and in 2019 completed level 2, enabling students to experience the inferno class with weights and resistance bands. Adding to her Inferno training, Sharon went on to graduate as a 26/2 yoga instructor in 2019. Sharon loves pushing her students to get the very best out of their bodies, no two classes are the same and in inferno along with some pumping tunes,everyone stays motivated and committed in her classes.
Are you up for the challenge for one of Sharon’s classes?!
Sharon teaches: Dynamic Hot Pilates | DHP (KG) | Original
Sophie Caton
Sophie practiced her first Bikram yoga class over 25 years ago and knew it was ‘for her’. As a keen long-distance runner, she found it was a great way to stretch out, build strength, stamina and train without the impact of pavement running.
In 2014 she completed her Bikram yoga teacher training in Thailand with Bikram Choudhury and on completion was offered a six-month teaching appointment at Bikram Yoga Hyderabad, India. Since 2014 Sophie has gained certification in Inferno Hot Pilates, Yin, Vinyasa Yoga and Level 3 Personal Training.
Sophie teaches: Dynamic Hot Pilates | Original | Flow
Sue Cheung
Sue Cheung is a yoga and mindfulness meditation teacher with over 14 years of experience teaching at some of London’s most popular studios.
In additional to her traditional Hatha and Vinyasa teaching experience, Sue has also studied with the non-profit organisation Off the Mat into the World, Embodied Awareness with Bo Forbes, Trauma Sensitive Trauma Centre Yoga Foundations with Alex Cat, completed the Level I, II and III Mindfulness Meditation training with Cyndi Lee, and completed the Intermediate level of Trauma-Informed Yoga and Somatics Training certification with Collective Resilience.
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