Meet the teachers

Yasmin teaches yoga intuitively. She sees the practice as a powerful healing art and is dedicated to passing this on. She teaches and practices Ashtanga Vinyasa and Gentle Hatha yoga and enjoys the freedom to explore strength and softness, movement and stillness. She guides students to be open to changing the way they practice in response to what is happening in their lives, so they can find the yoga practice that feels supportive and inspiring for them at any given time.

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Yasmin has benefitted greatly from being taught in small groups or one-to-one with her original teachers. Her depth of understanding and heart felt commitment to yoga flourished under her teachers’ care, insight, wisdom and humour! She remains enormously grateful for the close and personal way she was taught and hopes to remain faithful to this approach by teaching smaller numbers in a nourishing space and establishing long term relationships with her students.  

 

She has trained and practiced extensively over the last twenty four years, beginning her journey by learning techniques and adjustments directly from her original teachers and travelling to study with them in different places around the world. Alongside this she studied with the Devon School of Yoga (teacher training, 2007; yoga therapy, 2011) and broadened her knowledge of holistic yoga practices and teaching techniques. She remains the committed student and seeks out specific CPD courses with senior yoga teachers to expand her abilities and deepen her knowledge further. She is committed to the life long path of practice, learning and sharing yoga with all.

 

She has taught students from all ages and backgrounds with varying health issues and diverse medical histories. She enjoys the creativity of making the impossible possible and encouraging students to explore yoga without limiting themselves. Her classes are friendly and welcoming and the environment is one of enthusiasm, sincerity, nurture and care.

Boz began his study of meditation at age 16 as an apprentice of a Shingon Monk. He then studied with a variety of teachers from across the world - including Zen, Yoga, Aikido, Tibetan Buddhism, Native American Wisdom and Jujitsu.

 

His practice is Zen - the art of "No Self". Returning to the direct perception of ultimate reality - entering the unknown - through sitting, walking, standing and lying down.​

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He teaches through koan study and a variety of quickening practices that bring about profound states of mind. He is able to teach both the fast way to deep insight and the gradual cultivation of a peaceful mind in daily life.

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He also teaches a collection of one hundred simple practices for developing awareness and the dissolution of ego in everyday life many of which he has developed himself, influenced by traditional practices and created intuitively throughout 30 years of study.

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Boz teaches one-to-one in the Mala Shala and the surrounding garden and forests. He leads a group of Zen practitioners that span the world - in USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Iran, India and Australia. He has written several short books on Zen practice and his teaching has been translated into Spanish and Turkish.