MYoga Story..

“Movement has always been my therapy, the first time I experienced a sense of oneness was as a child, I was dancing. I remember feeling whole, this experience led me to my career in Dance and following I fell into the wonderful world of health and fitness where I attended a Yoga class for the first time in 2010, I felt that same oneness I had experienced when I was dancing and became a regular Yoga practitioner, I was already teaching exercise classes at that time and it felt natural for me to honour this new found love of Yoga by deepening my knowledge and becoming a Yoga teacher.

I originally trained as a Hatha Yoga teacher with The Vashista Yoga Foundation in Kerala, India.. later back in London, I continued my teacher training in Ashtanga Yoga with Ryan Speilman and Pregnancy Yoga with Nadia Narain. I returned to India in 2020 to the Vashista Yoga Foundation to complete a Yoga Therapy teaching certification and more recently i completed my Yin Yoga “The functional approach” online with Paul Grilley. I have been teaching Yoga classes daily, in person and online since I became certified in 2013”

Yoga and Dancing are definitely my two favourite things! I have had great fun developing the concept Om2theBeat! which is a 60 minute practice to a live DJ playing world fusion electronica and chill out lounge.  We took Om2theBeat to Odyssia Music festival in Greece in 2016, Stoned on Love festival in London 2017 and Watching Trees festival at The Forest of Dean in 2022 where we will be returning this summer. "Bringing Music, Movement and People Together.

During the Pandemic I stepped outside of my comfort zone and embraced the online movement and later contributed to the launch of Querencia Consultants. An online wellness platform which aim is to level out access to wellbeing provisions in our communities and wider societies ensuring services are available to those less financially equipped using a 'pay it forward" principle, where by addressing your own wellbeing, you help another. Querencia meaning "a place from which one's strength is drawn, where one feels at home, where you are your most authentic self"  This is how Yoga feels to me, a oneness that comes from deep within and encompasses absolutely everything and everyone around us. 

You can find me online in the mornings, Monday - Friday with Querencia Consultants and lunchtime’s in person at Nuffield Health in Moorgate, London. 

I am available for private classes and 121s for more details please do reach out so I can share MYoga practice with you. 

With Love,

Joelle Makwana x