Inform us a bit about your self…
In 2016 the founding father of the Yoga In Healthcare Alliance, Heather Mason, invited me to hitch her in a brand new enterprise; to combine the advantages of evidence-based yoga into healthcare. Since then I’ve made this mission my life’s work. YIHA has educated over 500 yoga lecturers to ship a Yoga4Health 10-week life-style drugs course for NHS sufferers, and (as of 2023) our new Yoga4NHS employees wellbeing programme. Each programmes are accredited by our bodies recognised by the NHS (Personalised Care Institute for Yoga4Health, and Royal Faculty of GPs for Yoga4NHS)
What does a typical day seem like for you?
Me and my spouse, Laura, have an 8 yr outdated adopted daughter. I do the college runs so morning are all about getting our daughter prepared for varsity, and working round after her from anytime after 3pm when it’s swimming, ballet, faucet dancing, musical theatre, or choir. In between I work three full days equal working and coordinating the work of the Yoga In Healthcare Alliance charity. On Wednesday evenings, I ship Yoga4NHS lessons to employees over Zoom, and on Friday mornings I educate an area Yoga4Health class to sufferers in Ely, Cambridgeshire, the place I reside.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to develop into a yoga instructor?
In 1995 I attended the Yoga for Well being Basis annual summer season yoga pageant and realised the ability of yoga. On the time, the Yoga for Well being Basis was the one residential yoga centre specialising in therapeutic yoga for folks with ME, most cancers, arthritis, and MS. I named the Yoga4Health affected person programme in tribute to the work of Howard Kent and others.
What impressed you to focus on your observe?
I consider passionately within the energy of evidence-based yoga to convey transformational modifications to folks’s well being and wellbeing as a result of it really works on so many ranges. I’m fortunate to work alongside folks like Heather Mason and Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, the world’s main yoga researcher. We’ve a incredible board of Trustees at YIHA additionally. Though evidence-based, the yoga we educate honours and flows from the yoga custom, of which I’m a faithful pupil.
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
Yoga4Health programmes for NHS sufferers have led to many life-changing realisations and empowering moments of perception about how we will all take management of our well being with this historical and highly effective observe. Sufferers and employees testimonials are each humbling and inspirational.
What’s your favourite quote or life motto?
Do it now.
What’s developing for you in 2024?
Yoga4NHS employees wellbeing goes large! Develop the alternatives for YIHA lecturers to ship affected person and employees programmes. Take pleasure in household life, and get my golf handicap beneath 10!
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