Anna is an experienced and dedicated yoga and meditation teacher based in Dorset.
Yoga has always been an integral and natural part of Anna’s life. When Anna was a child, her mum, a former dancer, had a daily Iyengar yoga practice which Anna began joining in with from the age of 5. Anna continued her own yoga practice all the way through her performance degree at Dartington College of Arts and went on to develop a programme of yoga for performers which she taught to theatre companies in Spain during her seven years of working as a professional actress.
Alongside her performance background, Anna has always had a keen passion for teaching. She first began teaching Theatre and English workshops in 2000 and has since taught internationally. Throughout her teaching she has always incorporated yoga techniques and found them to be an effective tool for supporting students to help optimise their learning.
In 2012 Anna brought her passion for teaching and yoga together. She trained as a Yoga Instructor in the Himalayas and completed the Yoga Alliance 200 hours training with Rishikul Yogshala. After her intensive training Anna began working in The Rios de Bienestar yoga school in Barcelona. After an extremely positive reception to her teaching, Anna set up her own yoga school in 2013 which quickly established itself as a thriving and dynamic centre for yoga in Barcelona.
To continue her development, alongside teaching, Anna completed training in yoga assists with Jai Sugrim and Olga Oskorbina, Vipassana Meditation, and studied intensives with Patrick Broome and Yogeshwari from Jivamukti Berlin. Anna has done workshops in uddiyana bandha, Chakra Flow by Shiva Rea, Hip Openers, Inversions, Sanskrit, and has a working knowledge of Ashtanga, Hatha, Vinyasa, Kundalini, Restorative, Yoga Nidra and Yin Yoga Practices.
Anna returned to The U.K. in 2015 and spent two years teaching in yoga studios in London, offering corporate and private classes plus completing an additional 100 hours of training with Yoga London focusing on yoga philosophy and mantra. Finally she settled in Dorset where the landscape is inspiring and the air is clean. You can find her close to the sea teaching yoga in studios, on Paddle Boards and on Retreat.
In 2017 Anna completed the Yoga Alliance 500 training with Yoga Arts, focusing on Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy (specific yoga practices for specific people with specific problems) as well as Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness to Children with The Special Yoga Foundation.
In 2018 Anna qualified as Reiki Master with The Reiki Academy London and completed training in Sound Healing with Anne Malone. In love with the bowls and their enormous capacity to promote healing, in 2020 Anna travelled to India where she delved deep in Sound Healing trainings and brought back a beautiful range of Tibetan singing bowls and other instruments. As well as teaching yoga Anna offers Sound Healing sessions one-to-one and group sound bath experiences.
Anna’s vast background in both teaching, yoga and healing modalities has provided her with exceptional teaching skills. She has a conscientious approach and confident ability to respond to the needs of each individual learner and to create an inclusive environment. Yoga continues to be an integral part of her way of life and she is passionate about learning and sharing, growing and making the teachings accessible and available to others.
