The Yoga Academy Teacher Training Course:
Course Tutors

 

The Yoga Academy teaching faculty includes highly experienced & renowned teachers coming from both the UK & the US. The Yoga Academy offers a curriculum & training method with broad & in-depth study/practice alongside guidance toward what we believe to be the best start available into the teaching of yoga to others.

 

Simon Low	Yoga Academy Principal & full time course teacher
Andrea Hanagarth	Full Time Course Assistant Tutor
Simona Hernandez	Course Tutor & Kids Yoga/Subtel Anatomy/Chanting
Sue Delf	Pregnancy Yoga/Lesson Planning/Course Tutor
Gill Lloyd	Philosophy & Vedic Chanting
Gary Carter	Anatomy & Physiology

 

Simon Low
Principal & Full Time Course Director/Teacher

 

Simon Low is the Principal of The Yoga Academy & is a BWY honorary teacher & a registered teacher (E-RYT 500 level) with the Yoga Alliance. Simon has been teaching yoga internationally for over 18 years. Simon’s teaching reflects his training and ongoing studies with international teachers in many forms of Hatha and Classical yoga. After originally completing and becoming certified in Teacher Training and Advanced Yoga Therapy with Dr. Larry Payne at Samata International in Los Angeles, California, Simon has developed a unique and personal teaching style. While the classical teachings of Sri T Krishnamacharya and his primary students inform the foundations of Simon’s ‘yin and yang’ style yoga experience, his own teachings are augmented by a keen interest in Okido Yoga, and a wide and varied journey through many other systems and schools of Hatha Yoga, bodywork, psychology and disciplines such as The Alexander Technique, Pilates, and Chi Kung.

 

After teaching in the UK for many years, Simon co-founded Triyoga in London, where he was Director of Yoga until 2003, since which time he has concentrated on teacher training at The Yoga Academy, while continuing to run workshops & residential weekends in the UK alongside trainings & yoga holidays around the world.

 

Andrea Hanagarth
Full Time Course Assistant Tutor

 

Andrea is a Yoga Academy graduate who runs The Yoga School in St. Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex. Working alongside Simon during the teacher training intensives and supporting the students throughout the course offers Andrea a welcome opportunity to share her joy of the practice and her experience of having been a Yoga Academy student. In addition to the teacher training with Simon Low, Andrea has undergone extensive training with other internationally renowned teachers: Sarah Powers (Yin Yoga and Meditation), Donna Farhi (Advanced Yoga Teacher Training) and Paul Grilley (Anatomy of Hatha Yoga). Her qualification & practice as a Massage Therapist supports her teaching & Andrea continues her personal journey in Yoga by attending in-service training events and retreats and, most importantly, by trying to ‘practice off the mat’!

 

Simona Hernandez
Course Tutor & Kids Yoga/Chakras/Chanting

 

Simona’s professional background is in Psychology and she has also studied Classical ballet. Subsequent studies in Dance Movement Therapy increased her awareness of how inextricably the mind, body and inner spirit are linked. Simona initially trained as a Sivananda Yoga teacher in 1998, however, her love of yoga drew her to other styles of yoga including Iyengar, Astanga Vinyasa, and Vinyasa Flow. Over the last 3 years Simona has been training as an Anusara teacher. Simona has been practicing yoga for 11 years and has been teaching yoga for 9 years and has continued her yoga training and teaching while living in Sydney and the UK. She teaches in Bath, London and internationally on yoga retreats as well as teaching on The Yoga Academy Teacher Training Course. Simona’s classes draw on elements of both passive and energetic qualities bringing balance to the mind and body. She encourages each individual while on their mats to find that inner beauty that is present in each and every one of us. Simona has also undertaken training in Pregnancy yoga and Baby Yoga (Birthlight) and Yoga for Children. Simona emphasises in her teaching that we may practice yoga in a group, but that the practice of yoga in itself is a very unique journey.

 

Sue Delf
Pregnancy Yoga/Lesson Planning/Course Tutor

 

Sue is a British Wheel of Yoga trained teacher, qualifying in 1993. Over the last 16 years she has studied with many inspirational teachers but has been influenced mainly by the rich teachings of her mentors: Simon Low, Francoise Freedman (Perinatal, Post Natal and Well Woman Yoga), Baron Baptiste and her primary teacher Gill Lloyd. She has recently completed a post graduate course in the Krishnamacharya tradition and is a certified teacher with the KHYF. Sue teaches weekly at Triyoga in Primrose Hill and at various venues in Surrey. She teaches workshops, and takes groups on yoga weekends in the UK and holidays abroad.

 

Gill Lloyd
Philosophy & Vedic Chanting

 

Gill has been a yoga teacher since 1974 and has taught, studied and practiced within the teaching approach of TKV Desikachar since 1976. Gill received the BWY Diploma in 1977 and served on its Executive and Education Committees and was a DCT for 10 years. She has studied Yoga therapy and Vedic chanting in India at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram and Vedavani Chanting Institute and continues her studies with TKV Desikachar both in India and the UK. She was Director of Viniyoga Britain from 1998 until 2002 and when Desikachar set up a new training organisation in 2006, The Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation, she was appointed as one of its first teacher trainers. She leads seminars and In Service training events in the UK and abroad and offers one-to one tuition at her home in Sussex. She also teaches the philosophy module for the Yoga Academy’s teacher training course.

 

Gary Carter
Anatomy & Physiology

 

Gary has trained in physical disciplines from an early age. He became a personal trainer in 1987, continuing to develop his fascination with Anatomy & Physiology & to study yoga for 12 years, as well as Shiatsu & Nutrition, Cranio Sacral Therapy & Structural Integration. He teaches Yoga & Living Anatomy & Physiology in Europe & the UK, to movement & manual practitioners in all bodywork disciplines.

 

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Hazrat Inayat Khan