Teachers

Mina Hosokawa is a seasoned yoga practitioner with over two decades of experience. As a dedicated practitioner, she has honed her expertise under the guidance of renowned experts like Sarah Litton, Hamish Hendry, and Richard Freeman, continuing her learning journey with them to this day.

Mina’s wealth of knowledge and experience extends beyond her personal practice. She is an experienced teacher, mentor, teacher trainer making her a valuable asset in the yoga community. Mina has been an active member of the teaching faculty of Yogacampus for over a decade, mentoring yoga teachers both during and post teacher training by sharing her wisdom, contributing to the growth and development of aspiring yoga practitioners.

Mina’s teaching style integrates scientific principles, yogic philosophy, and her personal self-inquiry discoveries. Her mission is to demonstrate how versatile, inclusive, and adaptable yoga can be, making it accessible to individuals from all walks of life. Recognising yoga’s profound impact on mental and physical well-being, she aims to support and promote its long-lasting benefits to everyone.

Giorgos’ classes reflect this understanding of yoga with themed and considered sequences. Classes are detailed, focused and fun. The breath is the starting point either with traditional prāṇāyāma or more experiential breathing techniques. His teaching style is engaging and relaxed; dynamic and accessible; adventurous at times and with a non-dogmatic approach.

Having studied and continuing to be a student of yoga philosophy as well as āsana his spiritual foundations draw from Tantra and specifically, Kashmir Shaivism as taught to him by Carlos Pomeda. Anna Ashby is his main teacher and source of inspiration – he has been a mentor/assistant at the triyoga teacher training programme since 2015 working closely with Anna. Eileen Gauthier has been his Ashtanga teacher for a number of years and she has inspired his teaching style greatly.

Giorgos teaches Hatha, Ashtanga and Vinyasa.

Mary has a keen interest in physiology and the biomechanics of how the body moves in yoga. She draws inspiration from the eclectic mix of movement that she’s studied over the years including Ashtanga, Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Iyengar, somatic intelligence, biomechanics, ELDOA (orthopedic modality) meditation and Tantra…amongst others.

Her classes are engaging and encourage students to practise with grace and curiosity. She combines optimal anatomical alignment with building stories through a variety of movements. This helps students feel grounded, as well as giving them the agency to explore.

Mary’s teaching also incorporates jazz, humour and creativity.

Raised in India, Yasmin has been immersed in the tradition of yoga since childhood, returning in her adult life to live and study as a yoga teacher in Mysore and the Himalayas, training in Hatha, Ashtanga and Iyengar styles. Through her personal realisations and passion for the discipline, Yazmin felt impelled to return to the West to share the wisdom of this ancient culture as a path to truth and self-realisation.

Yazmin’s teaching style is deep, strong and guided by intuition, with mindfully choreographed sequences, and variations for all levels. She encourages students to honour their bodies and feelings, whilst bringing attention to their breath and intelligent alignment. Where appropriate Yasmin enjoys using inspirational music, mood lighting and aromatherapy, all peppered with heartfelt philosophy.

Yazmin offers gratitude to all her teachers past and present and considers some of her main influences to be Jiddu Krishnamurti, Vanda Scaravelli, BKS Iyengar, Gary Carter, Donna Farhi, Rod Stryker and Max Strom.

Candy began her yoga journey in 2009 with a curiosity for meditation as a way to find some sort of stillness in a busy life. That led her to yoga asana, being able to approach movement in a non-competitive way, and reconnecting with her body. It soon became her way of life, inspired by Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Breathing techniques.

Candy has completed 500 hours teacher training and has a dedicated Ashtanga practice. Her teacher is Hamish Hendry, whom she has assisted at his Shala in London. Her most recent trainings include an Oxygen Advantage Instructor training with Patrick Mckeown, which is a scientific approach to breathing patters and its effects on health and function. She also trained as a cranial sacral therapist at LCCT. She has taught on three 200 hour teacher trainings for Path of Yoga, two of which were in person in Thailand, and the most recent one Online.

Her teaching style is very much influenced by her own practices and explorations. Strong, compassionate, playful and encouraging . As a teacher, she likes to get people connected to their breath, trusting their bodies, and approaching any practice in a completely non dogmatic way.

Having trained with several acclaimed international schools and teachers – including David Swenson, Max Strom, Meghan Currie and Kristen Campbell – Nikita teaches a strong and graceful Hatha flow, inspired by two lineages dear to her heart: Ashtanga and Anusara. Her teaching focuses on intelligent alignment, breath work and mindful body awareness. Nikita aims to empower and motivate her students, encouraging each individual practitioner to explore their own potential and strengthen the mind body connection.

Nikita is also a pregnancy and baby & me yoga teacher, a birth doula and hypnobirthing instructor with over a decade experience.

Lucy offers dynamic Vinyasa classes with a focus on breath and rhythmic flow. She maintains a low key atmosphere in her open level classes offering variations of poses and alignment suggestions for students of all levels. Lucy weaves her Ashtanga and Rocket-based yoga journey into her Vinyasa classes that are creative & energising, grounded through the body by breath. She knows from personal experience how our yoga practice can change over time in response to life’s circumstances and values how yoga brings people together as well as offer an inner experience of calm and alignment.

Cary is a level 2 Authorised Ashtanga teacher who began her practice in 1998 with teacher Tim Miller. She has taught since 1999, running Mysore in Boston, New York, London, Oslo, and Perth, Australia. She first visited Mysore, India in 1999 and has spent a year in total studying there, being authorised by Guruji in 2004. She has been taught the Advanced A series. Cary practiced the day before the birth of her two young children, returning to a full teaching schedule 2 weeks post-natal.

Prior to Ashtanga, Cary trained in massage therapy, studying for 4 years under the guidance of the founders of the International Professional School of Bodywork in San Diego, California which encourages the development of psychologically sensitive bodyworkers. She focused primarily on Thai Massage, visiting Thailand to study with her teacher’s teacher. Now she integrates the many modalities she studied into a bodywork that integrates deep tissue with Swedish style massage and passive joint movement. She continues her education in both massage and yoga, keeping her practice fresh and connected.

Emily Valente teaches Yoga alongside her career as a performing artist.

Her classes combine a creative approach to yoga with a deep love of movement and exploration of meditative practises. Postures are fully linked into slowly unfolding progressive sequences which intelligently prepare the body to move deeper.

Her own practice and teaching span over 23 years. She trained with Mercedes Ngoh at Yeotown and her long term teacher is Jean Hall.

Yoga has been an essential part of Jayne’s life for around 25 years – she’s explored different styles along the way, from dynamic and slow flows, Shadow, Anusara, Acro and Aerial to restorative, and the fascia-plumping somatic movement of Tias Little, Bo Forbes and Donna Farhi. She weave elements of them all into her teaching to create fluid, soulful but playful classes, inviting students to practice with a sense of curiosity, and encouraging individuals no matter what their level, age, body shape, or state of mind. Jayne has taught across London continuously for a decade and is a BWY and Yoga Alliance (500 hr) accredited teacher, and qualified to teach SUP yoga.

Jayne has trained with Tias and Surya Little for many years on movement patterns for healthy fascia (body tissues) injury prevention and somatic awareness, which has therapeutic applications, relaxing the nervous system and teasing out issues in the tissues, as well as prepping the body, allowing people to deepen their experience and comfort of yoga poses. She is a qualified SATYA (Somatic Awareness Training for Yoga  Attunement) teacher.

Born and brought up in India, Aparna was introduced to Yoga at a tender age. She completed her trainings in Hatha, Samkhya philosophy and Ashtanga Vinyasa from the Himalayan foothills and various reputed schools like Kaivalyadham university and Ramesh shetty yogashala Mysore. Her practice is deeply rooted in the core philosophy of Yoga that takes yoga beyond the physical practice to one that embodies – the eight limbs of yoga. In her classes, you can expect mindful movement, somatic practices, breathwork & meditation where you’ll learn how to disengage from the monkey mind and become aware of the inner realm of your body. She believes yoga is a practice of self enquiry, where you enter through the body and end up discovering a new state of Self.

Julie is passionate about yoga and sharing the benefits of a regular practice. Her classes offer a complimentary blend of asana, pranayama, meditation and philosophy. She has a kind, friendly approach to teaching and ensures a safe, happy and nurturing space for students to explore their practice. Her focus is on the breath and she teaches slow, mindful and therapeutic movement with flow and postnatal classes (she trained with Nadia Narain). Julie also teaches on the five-week Yoga Beginner Course. Julie has trained with many respected teachers, and considers her leading influences to be T. Krishnamacharya, T. K. V. Desikachar, Doug Keller, Donna Farhi, and Kate Binnie – and she gives thanks.

Having discovered yoga in 1988, Julia brings 30 years experience of practising yoga to her teaching. She completed her first Teacher Training at Triyoga with Bridget Woods Kramer, and has since studied with several renowned teachers: Donna Fahri, Kristen Campbell (Hot Yoga), Mimi Kuo Deemer (Vinyasa), Anna Ashby (Restorative Yoga) and Norman Blair (Yin Yoga).

Since attending her first class in 2005, Sue has become a dedicated yogi. A graduate of Triyoga’s foundation teacher training program led by Jean Hall and Mimi Kuo-Deemer, Sue has also qualified as a pregnancy and postnatal yoga teacher under Nadia Narain and has completed the 300-hour teacher training with Jason Crandell. She has attended workshops related to Yoga and Activism with Off the Mat into the World, Embodied Awareness with Bo Forbes, and the Trauma Sensitive Trauma Centre Yoga Foundational workshop with Alex Cat.

Sue’s teaching style focuses on precise alignment, and the conscious connection of breath with movement is the foundation of her classes. She seeks to create an environment where students feel supported to explore their experience on the mat.

Greta has been practising with a passion for over 25 years.  Through yoga she finds strength, peace, grace and ease. She is a generous and supportive teacher who invites her students to attune to an instinctive practice. Her classes are beautifully intention led, breath focused and creatively constructed.  They are rooted in tradition and create a powerful and intimate connection; strength and flexibility alongside a quiet and supple mind. 

She is BWY accredited, having trained at Triyoga for two years (390hrs) under Jean Hall, Mimi Quo-Deemer and Carlos Pomeda.  She qualified with Distinction in 2017.   Jean Hall remains her mentor and she continues to deepen her study with renowned Yogi, Annie Carpenter.   Greta shares her warmth and experience not only as a teacher, but  as a mentor to yoga trainees and newly qualified teachers. 

It is Rebecca’s firm belief that if you can breathe, you can practise yoga. This is reflected in the diverse range of classes she teaches across London, ranging from chair sessions with yogis aged 80+ to classes for people going through treatment for cancer. Her goal is to empower students and create a safe, inclusive environment for them to explore the physical, mental and emotional experience of the practice.

Rebecca’s teaching style is firmly grounded in ahimsa – the unwillingness to do harm. Her classes encourage yogis to let go of the ego in favour of developing a compassionate practice that honours the individual – and the South Asian roots of the yoga teachings and traditions – in an authentic and accessible way.

Rebecca’s yoga journey began in 2011 when she started practising to support her martial arts training in South Korea. It wasn’t long before she discovered the deeper spiritual teachings of the tradition and its rich capacity for healing. She’s completed 600+ hours of training with senior teachers including Anna Ashby, Jean Hall and Richard Rosen. Her most recent trainings were with Cal Wansbrough for yin yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and with Vicky Fox, where she learnt how to lead yoga classes and relaxation practices tailored towards people going through cancer.

Charli guides students through progressively sequenced, soulful and strong vinyasa flow, woven with other elements such as meditation, mantra, mudra, pranayama and yogic philosophy (particularly Tantra). Her teaching style is connected, playful and nurturing, with attention to detailed biomechanics, suitable for different bodies. She often uses hands-on assists (in-person and with consent), complemented by her training as an Ayurvedic Yoga Massage therapist. She aims to facilitate a remembrance of wholeness, a core tantric philosophy, which she personally has found to be both healing and liberating.

Charli has completed over 700 hours of training, including most recently a 300hr Rasa Yoga teacher training led by Sianna Sherman and Greta Hill, who she continues to study with, and this powerful style has had a profound impact on her teaching. Her training as a Capoeira Angola teacher and a student for over 15 years, and as an anthropologist, complement her yoga teaching and practice through a life-long immersion in the body in flow, culture and spirituality.

Pragna’s classes are dynamic and challenging, centred on the breath as the origin for movement. She applies the core teachings of yoga to guide mindful movement in playful situations, providing space for her students to explore the unity of the body, mind, and spirit through various physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation.

Pragna uses traditional yoga postures (asana) as points of departure to guide students through fluid and versatile sequences, inspired by the principles of sthira (stability) and sukham (ease), where she emphasises finding strength over seeking passive flexibility. She encourages and invites her students to observe, sync and flow with their own energetic rhythm within the moment to expand their capacities for self-expression and embodiment. If you’re looking for a steady and progressive style of vinyasa yoga that cultivates mindful and compassionate presence, Pragna’s classes will be right up your street.