Rachael

I grew up in Bath, England and first stepped onto a yoga mat in 2002 while working in the Financial industry at Morgan Stanley in London.  I practiced Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga before moving to New York with my  job in 2005. It was here in Manhattan on an icy cold January winter's night that I discovered Hot Yoga. I  remember walking out onto the bustling street after my  first class feeling “sweaty and confused by how good I  felt! ". I maintained a daily yoga-office-yoga schedule until I  finally took the plunge, followed my heart, quit my job and attended the Bikram Yoga Teacher Training in 2008.   I taught classes throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn for 3 years, to between 4 and 40 students at a time. I then moved back to the UK in 2011 and taught Hot Yoga  in Bristol while becoming certified at the 200hr level.  It was at this time of personal transformation that I moved to the BVI....which in hindsight allowed me to find a deeper level of self practice and into a deeper place of self exploration. I then moved to Cape Town for 2 years and taught Vinyasa while expecting my first child.  I subsequently became certified to teach Pre and Post-Natal Yoga  and also qualified as a Holistic Health Coach with the  Institute of Integrative Nutrition in NYC.  I moved back to the BVI in 2014 with my husband  where I taught private and group classes and set up my health coaching business.  With the onset of the pandemic,  I switched to online teaching and in July 2021 we moved back to Bath, UK with our three young children where I continue to teach.