About the tutors:

Dr Neelam Taneja PhD, Member IAYT, Life Fellow RSM

Neelam is an accredited teacher of meditation and mindfulness from the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, as well as the Mindfulness in Schools Project - teaching mindfulness skills to students and teachers. 

Neelam has thirty years experience of working in Europe, USA, Africa and Asia helping people from different cultures, backgrounds and beliefs. These include executives, students, health professionals and carers dealing with life’s challenges. He has consultancy and coaching experience, helping people in the corporate, public and charitable sectors and gives regular lectures on Meditation in the local community. He believes that Meditation is an inclusive practice, helping you stay healthier for longer with improved quality of life, and creates a non-judgemental and supportive environment for his students to learn. 

Neelam is a member of the British Wheel of Yoga and trains Yoga teachers in the philosophy and practice of Yoga and meditation. Neelam is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Kate Tomlinson

Kate has studied Yoga for over 40 years and is a 500 hour MindflowYoga Qualified Yoga teacher.  She has studied Pranayama under an array of fine teachers, including Sarah O’Connor and Philip Jones (an ex-miner and one of the first Pranayama teachers in the UK who survived despite greatly reduced lung capacity through Pranayama and Hatha Yoga.  An inspirational teacher, he taught the practices of Swami Gitananda.)  Kate did further training with Swami Dharmananda Saraswati Maharaj, founder of the Dharma Centre, and studied the philosophy of Yoga under Neelam Taneja.  In her work, she combines Pranayama, Meditation and Mantra as a means to gaining equanimity and inner stillness.