Zoë Reason began yoga in her twenties but it was on her first yoga holiday that she really got that it's a practice - and that regularity is important. She started teaching in 2004 - and has taught busy classes and built long term relationships with students in London and Lewes in East Sussex. Having been working at various studios around Bristol over the last couple of years, and taught weekly classes at Arnos Vale Cemetery she is delighted to have just moved to Knowle. She has a small and totally beautiful studio at home and looking forward to building a yoga community in BS4. As a teacher she's practical and methodical, compassionate and structured. People often say at the end of her classes that they can't believe how hard they worked doing such simple movements. For her, yoga is the technology of transformation. Her classes are about how yoga helps people inhabit their bodies so that they feel alive, energised and calm. She's more interested in students noticing differences in how they are off the mat than in creating "yoga poses" - the yoga shapes we make are the method not the result of transformation.
Since 2002 she's studied extensively with Rajiv & Swati Chanchani (who are the first generation of yoga teachers trained by BKS Iyengar) at their centre in the foothills of the Himalayas. Their approach to teaching is less technical and more poetic. Still rigorous, she has been immersed in their systematic way of incorporating attention to the breath. Zoë has also studied with the Iyengar family in Pune on a number of occasions.
Since 2002 she's studied extensively with Rajiv & Swati Chanchani (who are the first generation of yoga teachers trained by BKS Iyengar) at their centre in the foothills of the Himalayas. Their approach to teaching is less technical and more poetic. Still rigorous, she has been immersed in their systematic way of incorporating attention to the breath. Zoë has also studied with the Iyengar family in Pune on a number of occasions.
