What is Yoga Flow?
Yoga Flow classes offer a gentler pace to dynamic flow, allowing time to explore postures through mindful breathing while cultivating strength, flexibility, and balance. But don’t let that soft pace fool you! These classes are equally challenging, requiring you to ground yourself through postures that you might be used to holding for only a breath or two.
Each class is a unique composition built by the teacher’s influences and interests, but will typically include an opening meditation, standing sequences, and some softer groundwork.
These classes are quite accessible if you are new to yoga as they operate at a slower pace, but will also have plenty of opportunities to try out more challenging variations if you are an inquisitive or advanced practitioner.
Meet your Yoga Flow Teachers!
At Yogarise London, we are lucky to have some of the best Yoga Flow teachers in London. Read on to find out more about them!
Eleanor Hann
Eleanor is a South East London Native who trained as a teacher with Yogarise. Yoga has been a foundation throughout Eleanor’s life. Starting with formal dance training, she now works creatively as a Director and Choreographer. Yoga has been key in building a healthy and loving relationship with her mind, body and spirit, and she carries this into her classes to help others heal and grow. Eleanor’s yoga flows are influenced by her dance background. Prepare to get lost in her classes, connect to your body through Asana and breathe with curated playlists to let go and be present. Eleanor leans into her Nicherin Buddhism for inspiration.
Eleanor teaches in Streatham
Lydia Baker
Lydia is Australian born, passionate and curious by nature. She got into yoga unintentionally and quickly fell in love. Since completing her initial teacher training Lydia has continued her studies with special interest in meditation and Yoga Nidra and has completed additional trainings with Erin Prichard, Becky Farbstein, Chloe Faulkner, Katy Bateman, Norman Blair, Ben Wolfe and Uma Dinsmore. Taking inspiration from different forms of asana and various philosophy, including Taoist, Buddhist and Vedic texts, you can expect to flow through a strong steady sequence, with emphasis on the breath and stillness.
Lydia teaches in Peckham
Rishin Paonaskar
Rishin Paonaskar grew up in India and although yoga was taught at his school, he didn’t take it up until several years later to recuperate from a cycling injury. In 2012 he left a career in banking to start his own food business and also completed his 200 hour Yoga Alliance training. He has since trained as a myofascial body worker with senior Forrest Yoga teachers Jambo Truong and Brian Campbell, with Judith Hanson Lasater and as a yoga sports coach with the Institute of Yoga Sport Science. Rishin’s Dynamic Vinyasa Flow Yoga classes are challenging but accessible, while his Flow + Restore sessions are a chance to completely relax and reset. Come along to sweat, laugh and play in Rishin’s vinyasa, or enjoy a simple flow (to stretch and strengthen) followed by a delicious restorative sequence, designed to soothe the nervous system.
Deanne Oram
Deanne Oram is an experienced senior Yoga teacher with over 25 years of teaching yoga and mindful meditation. She is an active birth doula, postnatal health therapist, certified child birth educator, a women’s health mentor, mother of 2 and thrives in building support in communities. Deanne’s mission to serve has always been focused on empowering Women. Guiding them to learn and embrace their own experiences through all the life changing transitions, to improve their personal health & to connect to their deep innate wisdom through conception, pregnancy and motherhood. Deanne is well known for providing an inclusive, nurturing, supportive yet pragmatic approach to her classes. She roots all her classes, workshops and courses in up to date evidence based in science and biomechanics. With deep knowledge alongside ancient and personal wisdoms to give you an all inclusive holistic approach.
Deanne teaches in Queen’s Park.
Becca Raeburn
Through her teaching Becca hopes to create a space for her students to feel empowered to make the practice their own. She will always offer a range of variations and modifications for you to choose from depending on what your energy levels are feeling most aligned to. She invites you to explore outside of the box, letting go of how a pose looks, and instead allowing the physical sensations and the rhythm of your breath guide each movement. She hopes that you’ll come away from her classes feeling a little bit lighter than when you entered, and more connected to yourself – mentally, physically and energetically.
Becca teaches in Streatham
Lara Stapleton
Quote: “By the practice of meditation” the master said “you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.” – Paramahansa Yogananda.
Lara Stapleton is a truly nurturing and attentive Scaravelli Inspired and Hatha Yoga teacher with extensive training and a deep self-practice for over 25 years. This shines through in her teaching as she has a strong intuition on what is going on for each individual in a class. She cares deeply about her students, inspiring and supporting them to develop both on and off the mat. Her style is gently powerful with special attention on the breath, allowing for growth in ones own internal awareness and awakening the spine, creating flowing wave like movements and natural rhythms as well as working deeply from the ground up. Her classes allow you to work profoundly from the inside out on individual areas of resistance, injury, deep emotional blockages and alignment with grace and softness. Lara puts her sensitivity as a teacher down to a strong one-on-one approach “ I’m able to adapt yoga to the individual rather than the individual to yoga”. Lara’s philosophy and teachings are inspired by the spirit and practice of moving into stillness, to experience your true being. Her work and practice have been greatly enthused by her teachers John Stirk and Tias Little. Lara’s areas of speciality are spinal rehabilitation as well as being a trained Aromatherapist.
Lara teaches in Queen’s Park
Jo Norton
Jo has been a full time yoga teacher since spring 2012. She started practising Bikram yoga in 2004 after struggling with anxiety for a long time. Her practice turned her life around and after 6 years of regular practice she felt very passionate about becoming a teacher herself. Since then she has also completed her Vinyasa teacher training at Hot Power Yoga and is returning to teaching after having a baby. She is also an actor and feels exceptionally grateful to be balancing two careers that she absolutely loves. Jo teaches a strong, dynamic class with lots of kindness and compassion.
Jo teaches in Streatham.
