Naomi Annand
Naomi has been teaching yoga full time since 2002. Over this time she has developed a deeply compassionate style of teaching that emphasises the therapeutic benefits of yoga and also its potential to uplift and inspire. In 2012, she set up Yoga on the Lane with the intention of creating a dynamic community of teachers and students united by their commitment to practicing mindful, breath-led, vinyasa yoga. And then, in 2015, she designed the 200hr Yoga on the Lane Teacher Training Programme, which has set more than fifty brilliant new teachers off on their own paths. In October 2019 her first book, Yoga: A Manual for Life has been published by Bloomsbury, and is currently being translated into four other languages.
Elisa de Grey
I first came to yoga, like many people, in a time of need. In the beginning I couldn’t believe something as simple as breathing coordinated with movement could completely change the way I felt. I am still amazed by its powerful simplicity, which convinces me that it is for everyone. I watch students and friends who encounter yoga find greater ease within themselves, ease that is at first transient, but gains momentum and endurance. That ease is expressed as they make their gesture in the world. Finding moments of peace and balance in an environment that is often challenging and competitive is radical. The more this translates into everyday life the more far-reaching and important yoga and similar practices become. I encourage people to participate in yoga to gain therapeutic benefits, to expand creativity and well-being, and also to use the practice to enhance and evolve an existential and spiritual enquiry. The classes I teach are generally mindful vinyasa. I am interested in creating a safe, challenging practice that engages all elements of mind, body, spirit and breath. For me, practicing yoga has opened up the whole mystery of human existence, whilst confirming that the many clues to living a good life lie within, or are simply hiding in plain sight.
Anna Taylor
Anna is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and mindfulness instructor who began teaching in London in 2008. Since then she has explored and studied under a variety of yoga traditions and continues to expand her knowledge of yoga as a therapeutic practice. She holds teachers such as Bo Forbes, Judith Lasater and Tara Brach as key influences. Weaving mindfulness and compassion through all her teaching she offers vinyasa, yin and restorative yoga as well as mindfulness courses in London. Anna believes passionately that yoga and meditation are for everyone and holds a space with warmth and care to ensure that people can access these powerful practices at their own pace regardless of their level of experience.
Joanna Cowan
After 12 years of practicing yoga, Jo completed her 200 hours training with Naomi Annand and Adam Hocke at Yoga on the Lane. She teaches dynamic vinyassa, with a focus on breath-led movement, aiming to build both strength of body and stillness of mind. Jo is skilled at creating accepting and supportive environments, and her classes are designed for all levels, and all bodies; her priority is to create a safe space for people to connect with themselves kindly, and to develop confidence in their own abilities. Teaching light hearted and joyful classes, Jo believes the best thing she can leave her students with is an ability to maintain a compassionate and comfortable relationship with themselves and an awareness of their own wisdom.
Breige Corr
Breige has been practicing yoga for over 20 years. For the last 10 years she has practiced at YOTL. She trained with Naomi and Adam through Yoga on the Lane's 200-hr teacher training program and was Inspired by them to teach mindful, compassion-based yoga with a restorative feel weaving in self care practices which have supported her throughout the velocity of modern day life. She is a Sound Healing Alchemist & Macrobiotic Cook.
Annie Rice
I came to yoga as a way to recover from long runs. My body responded well to not being pushed so relentlessly and a wonderful teacher gradually persuaded me to stay for Savasana, until I was eventually comfortable being still. Gradually yoga has become my work. I still run, but less relentlessly, and am most interested in making yoga accessible and useful for us as we need it. My reason to teach is to support people in building a trusting relationship with their own body and to feel strong and confident in knowing their own practice and what is best for them.
Deanne oram
With Deanne is a dedicated senior Yoga teacher with over 23 years of teaching experience, as an educator, a mentor, mother of 2 and thrives in community building.
Deanne's mission to serve has always been focused on empowering Women.
Guiding them to learn and embrace their own experiences through all the life changing transitions, to improve their personal health & to connect to their deep innate wisdom through conception, pregnancy and motherhood. Deanne is known for providing a inclusive, nurturing, supportive yet pragmatic approach. She roots her classes, workshops and courses in evidence based science and deep knowledge alongside ancient and personal wisdoms to give you an all inclusive holistic approach. .
Rosie Gold
Rosie has been practising yoga for over 15 years, she has found her yoga journey to be deeply fulfilling and a steadying force throughout her life. Rosie teaches flowing breath and alignment focused vinyasa yoga. Rosie believes that giving yourself time to focus on your breath, movement, body and mind can truly help you to manage our often busy and hectic lifestyles from a place of more clarity and calmness. Rosie aims to offer you the space to feel into your body through her carefully sequenced and alignment focused classes. Rosie completed her 200hr teacher training at Yoga on the Lane with Naomi Annand and is currently taking her 300hr advanced teacher training with Jason Crandall.
Eryck Brahmania
Eryck’s years as a professional dancer with some of the UK’s top companies, has given him a deep understanding of the body, flow, movement as a meditation and anatomical understanding. Trained as a yoga teacher under Claire Missingham’s watchful eye and achieving an Outstanding grade upon graduation Eryck continues to study with Claire as well as assist her regularly. Students can expect deep yoga assists, wonderful sequencing and traditional roots of yoga using Sanskrit, krama vinyasa, use of precise and detailed anatomical alignment.
amanda butterworth
Through a regular practice Amanda was so touched by the ability of yoga to bring balance and harmony to mind and body that she became inspired to become a teacher, she completed her 200 hour training at Yoga On The Lane with Naomi Annand whose teachings continue to be a great source of inspiration for her. With compassion at the centre of her classes Amanda endeavours to share her own experiences of the transformative power of yoga. Amanda teaches a moving meditation, with creative sequencing, mindful breath lead classes which focus on cultivating a balance between effort and ease, movement and stillness.
Katrina Kurdy
Katrina has been teaching since 2011 and recently completed an advanced training with Jason Crandell. Drawing from her background in human biology and my love of physiology, philosophy and all things wellness-related she likes to create challenging yet mindful flows to help her students safely push past their perceived limitations (both physically and mentally). A personal witness to the amazing changes yoga can bring to one’s life, she finds great reward in sharing it with others.
Ashley Handel
Ashley has been practicing yoga for 10 years, first stumbling upon it as part of her undergraduate degree in dance. Her passion is Vinyasa Flow, combining dynamic and strong postures with mindful breath and movement. She trained with Naomi and Adam through Yoga on the Lane's 200-hr teacher training program, an unparalleled experience of deep learning and growth. She believes that a strong yoga practice comes through the methodical building of strength and mobility in the body, finding an intimate relationship with the breath and a curiosity and focus inward, cultivating a sensitivity to one's own internal experience. She is grateful to teach this practice with vigour, compassion and unwavering appreciation.
Simran Uppal
Simran has been teaching yoga since they were 17, and now teaches full time, alongside their work as a poet and writer. They're a faculty member for 200 and 500 hour yoga teacher training courses and an internationally recognised voice in decolonising yoga. Although their practice has roots in traditional training across yoga, chant, and Buddhist mindfulness schools, they teach a fresh, contemporary, dynamic and highly creative practice. They're cheerfully committed to play and exploration, breath and alignment, and the joy of being fully alive in your body! Expect an inclusive, flowing and deeply grounded class that harmonises strength and mobility work, has options to welcome beginners and challenge the experienced, and plenty of space to blissfully rest or blissfully sweat as much as you need. Simran is devoted to making yoga accessible for all, especially LGBTQ people, people of colour, and people who've experienced trauma, so don't hesitate to get in touch for any reason at simransuppal@gmail.com.
Almon Caspersz
Almon was drawn to yoga whilst working as a busy professional amid the freneticism of London life. Her yoga practice has been a natural anchor through many of life’s inevitable ups and downs. Almon creates a nurturing space, the focus is on breath-based yoga movement, safe alignment and mindfulness. She believes in moving slowly to the rhythm of the breath as a way of building strength, balance and flexibility, in both body and mind. In particular, she found yoga postures and breathing techniques to be a great help during pregnancy and the early days of being a mum to her sons, who are also yoga enthusiasts themselves! Almon teaches Flow, Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga having trained with Max Strom, Jason Crandell and Uma Dinsmore Tuli.
Huma Jalil
Huma grew up in Islamabad, the majestic Himalayan foothills of Pakistan and this is where as a teenager the initial seed of Yoga was planted. At age 21 she moved to London and completed an MA in Social Anthropology at SOAS University. This passion for and interest in the mystical and messy human condition continues to nourish and inform her practise. Her classes focus on breath awareness, alignment, and the interconnected nature of matter, mind and spirit. The methodology is both intuitive and steeped in the traditional aspects of yoga inspired by some thousands of hours of study and personal practise. She views the science and art of Yoga as a sacred life long journey revealing to us the extraordinary and infinite within the rich, interwoven tapestry of our everyday lives and the natural world. Huma feels blessed to have found this path that guides us back to our hearts, heals the body and elevates our consciousness, while creating a counter balance to the stresses and distractions of modern life.
Chantell Douglas
Chantell has been practising yoga for 10 years - researching and personally experiencing the benefits, she was drawn to develop a deeper understanding and to teach. She is a compassionate and mindful yoga and meditation teacher, clinical psychologist, and human. She’s completed trainings across the UK, India and Europe. She teaches from the heart, working with all ages - from children, teens and adults. Sharing her love for the practice and belief in it’s healing and transformational power, she gently interweaves yoga philosophy and psychology throughout her breath-led flows. Her sequences aim to energise, relax and restore with mindful movement, meditation and breath-work. Encouraging us to slow down and be with our experiences, as they are, whatever they are. Guided by her gentle voice and heart-centred approach, she aims to create nurturing and inclusive spaces for self-exploration, strengthening, and self-care - on and off the mat.
Joanne King
With a very keen interest in stress and trauma release I studied psychotherapeutic yoga and mindfulness for mental health, post traumatic stress, eating disorders and addiction recovery, qualified by The Minded Institute. I am also a certified 'EmbodyLoveMovement' facilitator which works with girls and younger women to enhance emotional expression, expose media myths, and change the inner conversation from criticism to kindness, promoting self-worth and purpose. Thanks to: Jewels Wingfield for her Women’s Initiation programme, Uma Dinsmore Tuli for Womb Yoga, Dawn Cartwright for Sacred Sexuality, Claire Missingham for Vinyasa flow, Sivananda for Hatha Yoga, Yogi Bhajan for Kundalini Yoga, Anthony Abbagnano for The Alchemy of Breath work. Max Strom, Bo Forbes, Eric Schiffman, Dr. Heather Mason and Shaura Hall for their wisdom, Steve Haines for TRE, the late Gabrielle Roth and the many amazing movement teachers she inspired, Patangali for the Eight limbed path, Eckhart Tolle for The Power of Now, John O Donohue for his words and Celtic Wizardry. I’m yet to find a more powerful teacher than Mother Earth herself and the elements she dances to.
Lucy Mccarthy
Lucy’s Yoga journey began many years ago on a rooftop in India and she has never looked back. After studying in India, she trained with Max Strom in America, whom she now assists on his international workshops in London. Lucy teaches mindful breath and alignment based Vinyasa Flow, restorative and pregnancy yoga. Passionate about the physical, spiritual and emotional benefits of yoga, Lucy’s classes encourage an open, content heart and a quiet, calm mind.
Rosie price
Rosie started practicing yoga ten years ago, and in 2020 completed her first 200hr teacher training with Yoga on the Lane. She teaches mindful, breath-led Vinyasa to students of all levels, honouring the strengths and limitations of bodies of all types. Alongside teaching yoga Rosie is also a published novelist — using language to guide her students into their bodies is one of the great joys she has discovered through teaching.