Yoga for the dedicated and curious practitioner
Fun, creative classes and courses dusting off and exploring the practice and history of yoga
Hi, I’m Amelia, a yoga teacher, writer, and academic.
I teach fun, inclusive yoga classes (in person) and courses (online).
My yoga classes are community-centred. I encourage the practice of mindful movement, breath awareness, and relaxation to promote a sense of wellbeing. I’m a trauma-aware teacher.
I bring my research and experience to yoga teachers through online and in person courses on the history of yoga, the role of women in yoga, trauma sensitivity in yoga, and abuse in yoga.
I train yoga teachers and guest teach on 200 and 300 hour courses.
Yoga Learning and Development
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Power and Community in Modern Yoga
This course examines abuses of power in modern yoga. I will present a variety of case studies, define the term Spiritual Abuse, and show how it can be applied to yoga contexts.
The live sessions are a space to discuss the pre-recorded content and consider how we can play our part in safe community building.
The course is a collaboration with the SOAS Yoga Studies Online platform and delivered as pre-recorded and live online lectures and discussion. The course is based on my original PhD research.
Live dates: October 1st, 8th and 15th 2025.
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Women in Yoga: an exploration
This course illuminates the roles women have played in yoga, from the pre-modern to today.
If you have ever wondered where we can find women in pre-modern yoga sources (hatha and tantric) and why so many women practice yoga today - this is the course for you.
Join me live online over 4 weeks and expand your knowledge about pre-modern and modern yoga history. This is an in-depth course that emerged from my academic research whilst at SOAS University of London.
Next dates TBC
Yoga Classes
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Yin Yoga
Moving towards stillness
A monthly class of embodied movement and stillness at the Calderdale Yoga Centre in central Hebden Bridge.
Fridays, 6-7.15pm
2025:
1st August, 5th September, 3rd October, 7th November, 5th December.
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Chair Yoga with Re-engage
Yoga for the over 75s
Monthly chair yoga classes on the 4th Friday of the month in West Yorkshire - Heptonstall (11am-12) and Halifax (2-3pm). The classes are free but please register via the charity Re-engage.
If you know/care for a person over 75 you can register them for the class, on their behalf.
Reading and Writing
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The Yoga Teacher's Survival Guide
Are you a yoga teacher and have you read the survival guide yet? In part 4 you can find my essay ‘Yoga, Trauma, and Spiritual Abuse’. I write about the rise of trauma-informed care and it’s impact on the yoga industry. I bring together my experience as a yoga teacher and yoga therapist, and research work on abuse in yoga. (Link below is an affiliate link.)
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Are We Women who do Yoga, or Yoginis?
How can we, as women who practice yoga, honour the roots of yoga?
Can we call ourselves yoginis, even though they’re abstract, divine beings rarely defined outside of how male adepts control and use them in rituals? I look at three textual sources for the answer.
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Yoga Studies in 5 Minutes
This book is an accessible guide to the growing field of research into yoga as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. Scholars and researchers offer 60 brief responses to questions that offer insights into the study of yoga. I contributed essays in response to the questions Are the Teachers of Yoga Enlightened? and Who was Krishnamacharya?
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Four Women Who Influenced Modern Yoga
Yogini Sunita, Geeta Iyengar, Madame Blavatsky and Indra Devi all helped shape modern yoga. Have you heard of them? This International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate.
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