Sadie is qualified as an Iyengar Yoga teacher member of Iyengar Yoga UK and currently runs a weekly evening class at Chapel House studios on Wednesdays.

Training to become an Iyengar Yoga teacher took 4 years with senior Level mentors and teachers. This rigorous system ensures that a high standard is maintained with only those teachers who have been assessed through IY UK mentoring being able to hold the mark of certification of the BKS Iyengar lineage in India. Iyengar Yoga teachers maintain their annual membership with qualifying hours of training, classes, up to date first aid, insurance, and attendance at IYUK annual convention.

In order to be able to teach, one firstly needs to have a very strong personal practise. For Sadie this has developed over the 20 years as a student of Iyengar Yoga.

As a younger person, she was inspired by the tiny, delicate movements which gave huge effect on muscles whilst following a weekly Callanetics ‘work out’ video with her mother and grandmother in their small lounge room. At that time interest in consciousness of body posture deepened through reading a book on the Alexander Technique.

The yoga practise began whilst working abroad on yachts with an introduction by a colleague/friend to Ashtanga Yoga. This stronger approach to the asanas (postures) suited Sadie in her younger years but later when she discovered Iyengar Yoga there was no turning back.

Sadie fell in love with the precision and detail of the Iyengar Yoga method and has often called it ‘tweaky geeky yoga’! The understanding of poses deepens each time you practise and enables full attention and awareness through mind-body-breath connection. This gift will be honoured until the last of her days and which she is humbly grateful to share with others.

Sadie practises out of her yurt space year round through all weather conditions and had to learn quickly how to create a wall within a round space! The dance barres at Chapel House studio are now the object of challenge and innovation in her classes.

Sadie continues her professional and personal development, learning all she is able to through classes with her mentors as well as workshops on subjects of special interest such as therapy, pranayama and philosophy, as well as online learning direct with Iyengar’s descendants in India.

If you approach the mat each time as a beginner willing to learn something and be inspired by a new detail grasped, a new sensation felt, then the true experience of yoga can happen.