Martha started practising yoga over 20 years ago, concentrating on Ashtanga for some time before developing a more individualised practice - incorporating healthy personal alignment and somatic movement.

Martha’s yoga influences are wide and varied, having completed her initial Yoga teacher training in 2011 with Kate Ellis and Carlos Pomeda at Triyoga. and attended many intensives and advanced trainings with senior yoga teachers, including David Swenson, Tias Little, Doug Keller and David Williams. She is guided by the dharma teachings of Buddhist teachers Jack Kornfield, Gil Fronsdal and Pema Chodron. She also trained in the Brazilian martial art, capoeira, for several years, and holds a degree in psychology.

More recently, in 2022 - after 8 years of deep somatic practice and study - Martha qualified as a Somatic Movement Educator with Katy Dymoke at Embody-Move UK, in the School of Body-Mind Centering®. Currently, Martha is continuing her study with Embody-Move UK on the Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) programme. Body-Mind Centering® places unique focus on the embodiment of all of the body systems (including muscles, ligaments, fluids, organs, skeletal, nervous and endocrine systems), as well as developmental movement patterns.

Martha has taught yoga and somatics at major studios across London including The Life Centre Islington and Notting Hill, Triyoga, and The Place. Her corporate clients have included Save the Children, Twitter and the Science Museum. She also enjoys her experience of working with long term, private clients.

Martha is a member of, and insured by, British Wheel of Yoga. She carries enhanced DBS clearance to work with children.

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Martha’s trainings include:

• Current in training - Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner programme with Embody-Move UK, School of Body-Mind Centering® (ongoing)

• Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) with Embody-Move UK, School of Body-Mind Centering® (Jan 2024)

• Children’s Yoga & Mindfulness, Empowering Children through Yoga & Creativity (ECYC) with Ayala Homossany, Enchanted Wonders - Yoga Alliance Accredited (Oct 2023)

• Somatic Movement Educator (SME) with Embody-Move UK, School of Body-Mind Centering® (500+ hours) (May 2022)

• Yoga Teacher Training with Kate Ellis, Carlos Pomeda, Triyoga - British Wheel of Yoga & Yoga Alliance Accredited (Jan 2012)

• Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training (Primary Series) with David Swenson (Nov 2007)