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Gemma Chard

Gemma's classes will get you hot and sweaty. You'll feel  that sense of relief and relaxation when you finish the class and she's so much fun that we know you'll be back for more!

Gemma Chard

3 WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR CLASSES
Strong, Sweaty, Fun
WHY YOU LOVE BEING PART OF THE YOGA READING FAMILY?
Being part of a community. I love that Yoga Reading is inclusive of everyone and that you always feel welcome. It’s a humble and relaxed space.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • 200hr YTT
  • Many hours of workshops and self practice.
YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO UNWIND?
Being outdoors in my garden, growing veg and flowers.
WHAT ARE YOU GREAT AT?
Ummm……. Being a mum.
TELL US A COOL FACT ABOUT YOURSELF
I own a health and social care company, we have 45 employees and we have been running for 10 years.
YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO MOVE YOUR BODY?
Dance, Run, Yoga

Helen Gevaux

Helen uses her extensive teaching background to weave together incredible Vinyasa classes. Using elements of Space + Flow, Taekwondo, Qi Gong and her yoga training her classes are always incredibly well planned and expansive.

Helen Gevaux

VINYASA – ANIMAL FLOW – ACRO YOGA
3 WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR CLASSES
Expansive, Vitalising, Flow
WHY YOU LOVE BEING PART OF THE YOGA READING FAMILY?
Getting to know the community of members and teachers and share in different styles and approaches to yoga and movement.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • Power, vinyasa and mandala yoga
  • L1 certified Animal Flow instructor
  • Further yoga-based trainings in Meditation and Mindfulness and Fascia
  • 5th degree blackbelt in Taekwon-Do and 15+years teaching
  • Plus 100s of hours of yoga and acroyoga retreats, intensives, immersions & workshops
YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO UNWIND?
Lying on grass in the sunshine listening to tunes or chatting to friends
WHAT ARE YOU GREAT AT?
Trying new and different things, wanting to learn.
TELL US A COOL FACT ABOUT YOURSELF
I appeared as a guest instructor on Channel 5’s Combat Club – think The Voice Kids for Martial Arts – in about 2003
YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO MOVE YOUR BODY?
As a self-confessed eternal movement student that’s a tricky one. Probably just finding a bit of space and seeing where the flow takes me on the day, whether that’s yoga, animal flow, dance or TKD pattern.

Katia Major

Katia is and Ashtanga and Yin yoga teacher. She is a positive force of nature and aims to keep her classes supportive and enjoyable.

Katia also provides soft tissue massage treatments at Yoga Reading.

Katia Major

ASHTANGA – YIN – SOFT TISSUE MASSAGE

3 WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR CLASSES
Thoughtful, fun, anatomy-informed

WHY YOU LOVE BEING PART OF THE YOGA READING FAMILY?
The team of teachers are supportive, professional and experienced in so many ways. It’s great to know you can put a call out and someone will have a suggestion, answer or just some kind words. It means a lot to me as working in this area can be quite individualistic and fragmented. I love the feeling that we all bring something different to build a bigger offer to Reading.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 300 hour YTT Ashtanga and Yin Yoga
  • Assisted a 300 hour YTT
  • Advanced Yin Yoga
  • Various anatomy and fascia workshops
  • Yoga Nidra trained
  • Level 2 ETM
  • Indoor cycling and Keiser trained
  • Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapy (Sports & Injury Massage)

YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO UNWIND?
A circuits class or Ashtanga practice (I do have yang tendencies)…

WHAT ARE YOU GREAT AT?
Connecting and being interested in people. I love connection.

TELL US A COOL FACT ABOUT YOURSELF
In my previous career I worked on international education projects and was posted to Abu Dhabi and Qatar several times – I still went to the gym even though it was BOILING out there!

YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO MOVE YOUR BODY?
It depends on the day! But I really like to do something every day even if it’s a dog walk.

Lorena Rodrigo

Lorena is a highly skilled Sound Therapist, Pregnancy Yoga Teacher and Anusara Teacher. Every class that she offers has been beautifully constructed with huge regard given to the nervous system and emotions.

Lorena Rodrigo

3 WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR CLASSES:
Nurturing, Caring, Embodied movement

WHY YOU LOVE BEING PART OF THE YOGA READING FAMILY?
I love the community side of it and the real kula (family) feeling that YR offers to all their teachers. YR is an encouraging, deeply supportive studio and I am proud to be part of it.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Anusara, Pregnancy, Meditation & Sound Baths
  • 200h Ashtanga Vinyasa with Yoga London,
  • 200 hours Anusara Elements registered teacher,
  • 100hours Anusara Yoga Therapyand applied Anatomy,
  • 100h Depth Yoga & Psychology with Lisa Sanfilippo,
  • 45h Yoga for Cancer with Amy Dara Hochberg & Tari Prinster,
  • 40h Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli & Lisa White,
  • 20h Jivamukti Immersion with Gabriela Bozic.
    • Reiki Master & Teacher with Michael Kaufmann
    • Sound Therapist with Anne Malone, Don Conreaux & Vikrampal Singh (Gong Master)
    • Certified Aromatherapist

YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO UNWIND?
Taking long mindful medicine ritual baths, applying aromatherapy, candles and crystals.

WHAT ARE YOU GREAT AT?
Creating safe spaces for people to relax and connect deeply with their bodies through yoga asana and meditation.

TELL US A COOL FACT ABOUT YOURSELF:
My uncle is the President of the Spanish Naturist Association and my degree dissertation was about Naturism as a niche market (my tutor wasn’t amazed by it).

YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO MOVE YOUR BODY?
I love to dance and simply let my mind and body follow,
especially when I am cooking in my kitchen :0)

Raili Maripuu

Raili is an Ashtanga Yoga teacher. She practices regularly with Hamish Hendry at Ashtanga Yoga London and is a student of Lino Miele.

As well as teaching for us in Reading she runs Ashtanga Yoga Estonia.

Yulia Wind

Yulia is our resident Osteopath and as such her classes are driven by the aim of providing healthy and functional movement to students.

Yulia also provides Osteopathic treatments at Yoga Reading. See our Appointments schedule for more info.

Yulia Wind

FUNCTIONAL FLOW – OSTEOPATHY – YIN

3 WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR CLASSES
Mindful, Practical, Reflective

WHY YOU LOVE BEING PART OF THE YOGA READING FAMILY?
I love being part of Yoga Reading because it is a community of diverse and amazing people that are nurturing each other, with genuine support and care.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 2007 Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Teacher Training 200 H
  • Short trainings on Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Jivamukti yoga
  • 2010 Insight Yoga Teacher Training 60 H (Yin and Yang yoga and mindfulness meditation) with Sarah Powers
  • 2012- 2014 STOTT PILATES® Mat, Reformer, CC&B, full certification
  • Further training in Stott Pilates
  • Tripsochore Yoga Training
  • 2019 Animal flow Level 1
  • Lots of workshops and immersion, in addition to my degree in Osteopathy, Sports massage L5 and Lymphoedema therapy.

 
YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO UNWIND?
Dancing to my favourite music by the fire under the starry sky and eating cake.

WHAT ARE YOU GREAT AT?
Cooking in general, particularly baking ….and making friends

TELL US A COOL FACT ABOUT YOURSELF
I’ve moved 15 times in the past 20 years and lived in 5 counties.

YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO MOVE YOUR BODY?
Impromptu dancing and mixing up different styles while combining them with yoga

Joy Golding

Joy teaches Ashtanga and Kundalini yoga. She isn't currently on the schedule full time but she covers as and when she can.

Joy Golding

ASHTANGA – KUNDALINI
3 WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR CLASSES
Rejuvenating, Energizing, Deep.
WHY YOU LOVE BEING PART OF THE YOGA READING FAMILY?
I love being a part of the Yoga Reading family because we are all so open and supportive of one another. We are all so different and unique as teachers, yet we respect each other and work together as a whole.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • YTT with Bryan Kest in California(Power Yoga)
  • YTT with Manju Jois in Florida(Ashtanga Yoga)
  • YTT Kundalini Yoga.
  • And 1,000’s of hours of practice and teaching…endless workshops.
YOUR FAVOURITE WAY TO UNWIND?
a good movie watched in bed.
WHAT ARE YOU GREAT AT?
I am great at cooking! Mainly Vegan delights
TELL US A COOL FACT ABOUT YOURSELF
I was on the Radio in the US for 15 years as a DJ…rock n roll stations only!
WHATS YOUR FAVORITE WAY TO MOVE YOUR BODY?
Fave way to move my body…a really good morning stretch and Surya Namaskar.

Dr Naomi Middleton

Naomi is a Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Teacher based in South Oxfordshire. She has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oxford, a BSc in Psychology, Mental & Physical Health from the University of Reading and is a HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist.

Dr Naomi Middleton

Her specialist areas of interest are gut and bowel health, eating behaviour, body image and helping people to adjust to and live well with long-term physical health conditions.

Dr Sarah Gilchrist

Dr Sarah Gilchrist FBASES, spent over 20 years working in the high performance sport industry, latterly as a Technical Lead for the UK Sports Institute (formerly the English Institute of Sport) and Senior Physiologist with British Rowing.

Dr Sarah Gilchrist

Dr Sarah Gilchrist FBASES, spent over 20 years working in the high performance sport industry, latterly as a Technical Lead for the UK Sports Institute (formerly the English Institute of Sport) and Senior Physiologist with British Rowing.


 Her doctorate specialised in sleep and athletic performance, and she now provides consultancy on a range of performance areas, particularly relating to female sleep health, through her own consultancy, Gilchrist Performance. She is on the Advisory Board for the Sleep Charity, a fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and is High Performance Sport Accredited.


Sarah’s interest in sleep health stemmed from supporting elite athletes in the run up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics and observing the increasing demands that a Home Games brought on an athletes’ recovery time. She also has a young family and has experienced the challenges of juggling the juggle with family life, working and protecting some time for self-recovery, so knows all too well the importance of a good night’s sleep.

Gemma Miles

Gemma is on a mission to break pelvic health taboos, and support as many women as possible to regain their freedom and confidence by improving their pelvic floor symptoms.

Gemma Miles

Gemma Miles is a soft tissue therapist and Pilates instructor specialising in women’s health. She runs her own clinic in Caversham helping women recover from hysterectomy and C-section surgery, diastasis recti, and pelvic floor dysfunction. She is on a mission to break pelvic health taboos, and support as many women as possible to regain their freedom and confidence by improving their pelvic floor symptoms. She is also mum to Oscar (5) and Rose (2) and when she’s not busy with all of that you can occasionally find her on the dance floor where she competes in Ballroom and Latin dancing.

Gillian Sullivan

Gillian is a Pilates teacher and a fully trained Yamuna Body Rolling coach

Gillian Sullivan

Yamuna Body Rolling is a method of self massage using soft balls to tone, strengthen and realign your body.  It will help improve posture and prevent and fix many body problems. 

Megan Fuller

IYENGAR INSPIRED YOGA - VINYASA - HATHA

Megan Fuller


3 WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR CLASSES 

Mindful, alignment, supportive 


WHY YOU LOVE BEING PART OF THE YOGA READING FAMILY 

I truly love being part of the Yoga Reading family. It’s such an inclusive, supportive, warm, and kind community, and I am proud to be part of it. Each class is unique and our teachers share so much knowledge - I continue to learn so much from them. Being part of this family continues to help me grow every day.


.QUALIFICATIONS 

  • 250HRS Sam Rao YAP Yoga Teacher Training Diploma

  • Anatomy and Alignment in Iyengar Yoga Study 

  • Many hours of attending workshops, retreats, self study and self practice.

Weien Soh

Weien's classes create a space to practice cultivating these qualities through breath, meditation and movement. Whether you are stepping into your first class or deepening an existing practice, she will guide you with compassion so you can feel more grounded and at home in your body.

Weien Soh

Weien’s yoga journey started with a love for how good she felt after every yoga class. She kept going and realised that yoga is a practice of continuing self-enquiry. It opened a path for her to explore and connect with herself; to find a sense of belonging, ease and inner strength in her mind, body and spirit. She trained as a yoga teacher (RYT 200) so she can share this passion with more people.

Mihaela Melneciuc

Mihaela is deeply curious about how mindful movement reshapes the brain, supporting focus, adaptability, and a sense of clarity that carries beyond the mat.

Expect energising, playful sequences that emphasise freedom, rhythm, and intuitive movement, creating space for exploration within the practice.

Mihaela Melneciuc

Mihaela is an avid yoga practitioner, exploring a range of styles including Ashtanga, Rocket, Mandala, Vinyasa, and Space & Flow. Her approach blends structure with creativity, drawing on both traditional lineages and more fluid  practices. She is deeply curious about how mindful movement reshapes the brain, supporting focus, adaptability, and a sense of clarity that carries beyond the mat.

Expect energising, playful sequences that emphasise freedom, rhythm, and intuitive movement, creating space for exploration within the practice.

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