Meet our Teachers

Julie Brunton BSY

Following a successful career as a professional dancer, Julie qualified in 2001 as a Yoga teacher with The British School of Yoga.

She brings a holistic approach to her Yoga classes, weaving Reiki healing into a calming Yin Yoga practice.

Julie is a Body Code Health Practitioner and runs a private Reiki practice.

Jane Oppegaard

Jane is a trained Kundalini Yoga and Specialist Children’s Yoga Teacher, including pre and post-natal. Through the movement of the body, creative breathing, focused meditations and energy work. Jane is devoted to working with children of all ages to improve their mental and physical well-being.

She works with neuro diverse children, trauma, disabilities, children with anxiety, low self-esteem/confidence and children who feel they just don’t fit in. Jane has a wealth of experience to help create the energetic shift needed to allow each child to understand their mind and body, living a healthy, happy, free life.

Alison Fairchild BWY

Alison qualified as a Yoga Teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga in 2009 and has been teaching and learning ever since. An eternal student, Alison teaches you how to breathe, and pay attention and be mindful; you will learn to look inwards and trust the wisdom of your own body; you will learn how to connect your yoga practice with the beauty of the natural world and the changing seasons and to take what you experience on the mat and apply it to all aspects of your life. At the end of all Alison’s classes, you will practise Yoga Nidra, the yoga of deep rest, coming home to yourself and the quiet space within you.

Carole Richardson BWY

Carole has been teaching Hatha Yoga since she trained with the British Wheel of Yoga in 1995, and holds a Further and Adult Education Teacher’s Certificate and the BWY Teaching Diploma. Using a step-by-step approach which allows students to work at their own level and pace with safety, she believes that Yoga can benefit and can be accessible to everyone irrespective of age, background, ability, or physical and mental limitations.

Rebecca Skeel

Rebecca gained her first Yoga qualification in India in 2014, and 3 years later completed a further 200 hours’ training with Yoga Campus. She has done additional work in Yoga for Anxiety and Depression, in Anatomy and Physiology with Lesley Kaminoff and has trained as a Positive Movement instructor at the Centre.

Working on the principle “If you can breathe, you can do Yoga”, Rebecca adapts Yoga practices to suit all levels of ability and need. She encourages students to connect breath and movement in order to overcome habitual patterns of movement which can cause pain and instability.

Lorraine Woods

Lorraine’s eclectic background includes training with the British Wheel of Yoga and the Yoga Biomedical Trust. Her approach emphasises a rigorous adherence to correct body alignments and articulates a philosophy which her students use to inform many aspects of their lives.