Hotpod Yoga
Marlborough

Emilie Millie

After over 30 years in the circus industry as a performer and more than 200 shows around the world, Emily felt like discovering a new way of working with the body, far away from performance but still challenging. Yoga was a natural evolution. As she learned at the French National Circus School, she discovered that yoga also requires discipline, focus, commitment, and accuracy. But when the circus constantly pushes the boundaries, yoga helps you to accept who you are, where you are.
In the circus, success goes with risk and rewards. In yoga, success goes with satisfaction and serenity. The deep stillness from yoga has followed the risky movement of circus, both offering a beautiful balance to Emily who keeps teaching circus and yoga with the same love.

Maddy Sangster

With a 20 year yoga practise, Maddy believes in the immense benefits of yoga and loves sharing its transformative power with others. Trained as a yoga teacher in Bali, Maddy has also specialised in yoga for pregnancy.

Maddy now balances her time between running an online jewellery business, her yoga practice, and the adventures of raising two toddlers- attempting to put into practise the harmony and balance that yoga brings to life.

Naomi Hurst

Naomi is a highly experienced yoga teacher with over 20 years of personal practice. She completed her initial training in India, Mysore, the home of Ashtanga yoga, so is no stranger to dynamic and hot yoga flows having trained with Praveen Somu.
She continues to further her understanding of the rich landscape of yoga by delving deeper into her own studies and is currently undertaking a rigorous and academic three-year training program to become a Yoga Therapist, accredited by the British Council for Yoga Therapy.
This course at The Minded Institute focuses on understanding the brain and major physiological systems, linking brain, behaviour, physiology, and pathology through the latest scientific research and ancient yoga practices.

Naomi loves exploring the sensory aspects of yoga and offers Sound Journeys to have an immersive meditative experience.
When Naomi is on the yoga mat she loves being in nature, exploring the world with her husband and 6 year old daughter or in her garden and kitchen.
Naomi also has arthritis so encourages modifications and adaptions to suit a range of bodies.

Naomi is dedicated to improving mental health and volunteers as a listening volunteer for the Samaritans. She hopes to help you find what you’re looking for in yoga, whether it’s relaxation, increased strength and flexibility, or a cardiovascular workout but above all, she wants to encourage you to show up for you as you are, embracing all facets of your being.

Emma C

Emma’s background is in contemporary dance and circus. Cultivating wellness through movement is her life’s work and she has been teaching Ashtanga and Yin for 10 years. Emma has worked with Adidas, ASOS and BIMM Music Institute and has taught in studios across London.

Emma is also a Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, which is all about wellness from the nervous system up. Emma employs felt-sense practice in her yoga classes and workshops. She helps people connect with all that exists within them, cultivating resilience, joy and connection to self and others.

Beth Horton

Beth creates a space for exploration, joy and empowerment. Join Beth on the mat to find a little joy in just being, living and breathing in your body.
Beth nurtures you throughout your practice enabling you to feel more ease in the way that you move. Beth hopes that you feel more ease in the way your mind wanders.

This adventure we call life is truly epic but also truly challenging and Beth hopes that through the practice of yoga you find ease in all of that.

India Bloomfield

My name is India and I graduated from my 200hr YTT in Costa Rica in April 2023.
This was an experience that fully inspired and reminded me of the life I desire to create.

The world can feel like it’s spinning pretty quickly at times and so I love that yoga gives you the space for stillness and a reconnection to self, mind, body and community.

A quote I recently heard is ‘you are what you practice’ and I believe that when you prioritise connection to your inner world through a practice like yoga, you retune your frequency to the effortless flow with life- back to BE-ing.
From this embodiment we remember it’s our natural state to co-create an abundant and beautiful life.

Natalie Shaw

Natalie is a Yoga practitioner, water baby and nature enthusiast.
‘After many years working underwater and tuning into nothing but the breath, I wanted to find this same stillness above the water as below – Which bought me to the transformative practice of yoga Teaching and practicing in a variety of styles has given me a deeper understanding of balance between our yin and Yang energies and the importance of play, expression and creativity as well as finding moments of stillness and solitude I aim to create a safe and inclusive space for anyone wanting to explore the many attributes of yoga and am over the moon to be able to share this journey with you.’

Astrid Harrisson

Astrid discovered Hotpod in 2017 after meeting Ana who runs Hotpod South Wales. Astrid was instantly hooked. The pod built her strength and resilience, her fitness and brought a new community into her life. In 2019 she lost her brother in a tragic accident and Hotpod gave her space to work through the trauma of loss both physically and emotionally.

Astrid is a dynamic force who has shown up for herself and her two young children by turning toward a path that enables her to help others. Astrid’s spirited nature shines through her teaching, which is mindful, creative, strong and empowering.

Emma Dainton-Steyn

Emma has been practising and teaching yoga for over ten years. She promotes body positivity, empowerment through movement, connection to self, embodiment and a strong sense of community as well as healthy internal awareness.

Emma’s daily yoga practice has supported her physical and emotional well-being whilst physically stretching, strengthening the body, mind and cultivating a deep connection to breath. Yoga has been a constant in Emma’s life and continues to grow with consistency, playfulness and curiosity.

Teaching is Emma’s passion and she is driven in sharing the tools of yoga to help others.

Violet Stopford

Violet is a 500 hour yoga instructor trained in Advanced Vinyasa, Hatha and Yin.
Whether it is a playful dynamic flow or a deep grounding nurturing flow, she offers variety and options for all.
Her classes are heavily focused on connecting to your breath allowing you to deepen into your practice as much as your body invites you to.
Violet believes yoga is for everyone and welcomes all levels onto the mat.

Kat Venus

Kat is an amazing teacher. She teaches a range of different classes, from dynamic yet playful flows designed to clear your overactive mind, to slower more gentle sequences allowing you time to explore the connections between breath, mind and body.
She aims to help you find a sense of balance and contentment through your yoga practice, growing healthier and happier both physically and mentally. Kat has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and has 500 hour YT certification.

Catherine Hartley

Hi there! I’m Catherine, and I am a yoga teacher, Intuitive Guide, and wellness enthusiast.

I discovered yoga not long after my second child was born and as someone that spent a lot of time with my head in the clouds and not in my body it became medicine for me to experience life in my body on the Earth rather than being lost in my mind.

Yoga has connected me to me, bought me stillness and peace and an understanding of myself that brings me back over and over to my mat and makes me passionate about sharing its transformative power with others.

With over six years of teaching experience, experience as an intuitive guide, energy healer and spiritual teacher I bring a wealth of knowledge and a playful, supportive energy to my classes. I believe that yoga is for everyone, and I strive to create a safe and inclusive space for my students to explore their practice where everyone and all of you are welcome in the space.
I am a busy mum of three wildings and I love to dance, sit under the moon and be by the sea. I love to learn and I am constantly looking to develop my practice and skill set in order to be the very best version of myself.

I am passionate, playful, and deep and love nothing more than exploring spiritual truths and wisdom and having conversations under the stars.
I am grateful to have the opportunity to share my love of yoga and life with others, and I look forward to meeting you on the mat soon!

Hotpod Yoga Marlborough