Meet our Teachers

  • Julie Brunton Yoga Teacher at The Sadie Centre

    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.

  • Alison Fairchild Yoga Teacher at The Sadie Centre

    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.

  • 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.

  • Carole RIchardson

    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.

  • Kristi Mae Rodelli

    Kristi is a psychology graduate, Accredited ICF Coach, Mentor, Senior Yoga Teacher and Mamma to two girls. She creates spaces, through yoga and coaching, for women and mothers to reconnect with themselves, find clarity, and develop the practical skills to create daily rituals to support and inspire them. 

    Her life experience and spiritual practices guide her knowledgeable and intuitive approach to working with women. 

    Kristi has taught Yoga for 15 years, many of them in the Far East; has taught literally thousands of classes in Asia for PURE Yoga; has assisted Ana Forrest in Istanbul, Berlin, New Zealand; brought Forrest Yoga to London’s Indaba Yoga and Triyoga.

    Her many qualifications and training include:

    Anusara teacher training with Patrick Creelman

    Prenatal Yoga teacher training with Sarah Avant Stover

    Acro-Yoga teacher training with Jason Nemer

    Forrest Yoga Foundation and Advanced teacher training with Ana Forrest

    Mentorship training with Shinhee Yee

    Chakra Yoga with Anodea Judith

    Mama Rising facilitator training with Amy Taylor-Kabbaz

    ICF Accredited Coach facilitator training with Amy Taylor-Kabbaz

  • Rebecca Skeel Yoga Teacher at The Sadie Centre

    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.

  • Claire Winterbourne

    Claire has been practising Yoga for over 20 years and following completion of her initial 250 hour appleyoga teacher training in Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga in 2017, she studied Yin and Meditation with Sarah Lo. She finds Yoga to be a wonderful guide for navigating the ups and downs of life and her classes – into which she weaves poetry, contemplation and breathwork -- are warm and kind.

  • Lorraine Woods

    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.