Your Integrative Yoga Guides
Jane
Most classes and all Integrative Yoga Therapy sessions are guided by Jane, who has used yoga, meditation, mindfulness, acupuncture and psychotherapy to help her live a full life. She would love to bring a little joy to everyone's life!
Jane used yoga initially to improve her sporting performances in running, cycling, riding, skiing and swimming. When she was faced with serious health challenges, she used yoga and acupuncture to help her body heal one savasana at a time. As a lawyer and business entrepreneur, mindfulness and meditation were a haven for her stressed and burnt-out mind to create clear thinking and peace. More recently, she has benefited from psychotherapy sessions, allowing her to understand herself and all her foibles a little better, and to improve her relationships with others and the planet. She aims to be a considerate, analytical, thoughtful, and kindhearted guide to herself and all those coming to improve their well-being at Sheepdrove Yoga.
Jane is a qualified Yoga Teacher with a passion for Iyengar, Lu Jong, Nidra and Relax and Renew yoga. She is registered as a Yoga Therapist with the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council and is also a Butekyo Breathing Therapist, and a Mindfulness & Meditation teacher accredited by BAMBA. She holds a MA in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation and is training for her Level 7 Integrative Yoga Psychotherapy Diploma which is accredited by the NCIP. In her Integrative Yoga Therapy practice, she blends yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and various psychotherapy modalities. Most of all, she aims to develop a relationship of trust with every client so they can be heard.
She enjoys working with everyone from complete beginners to yoga as well as those suffering with complex mental and physical health challenges and those looking for help understanding themselves and the journey we are all on.
Priti
Having worked in a corporate I.T. environment Priti found Eastern Medicine helped to re-balance the body and provide relief from the pressures of work, stress, sporting activities and sitting at desks for long periods of time. This was the beginning of her journey in 2001. Priti realised how her own upbringing connected strongly with these ancient disciplines, and followed her passion to learn more studying to an MSc level. This led her to start teaching in 2010 for at the Academy of Oriental Medicine AOM, before running her own courses in 2018. In 2021, she set up the Tibetan and Eastern Medicine Association (TEMA) for professionally trained acupuncturists, and is a representative for TEMA on the Acupuncture Regulatory Authority Board. Her mentor is Dr Passang Thopchen the President of the TMCA Traditional Medicine Chinese Acupuncture clinic, in India. Dr Passang visits the U.K. regularly, delivering lectures and treatments. Priti became a member in 2018 of the Central Council for Tibetan Medicine བོད་སྨན་མཐུན་གོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་མྱི།.Priti is a registered Fellow of the Higher Education Academy completing the PGCert in Higher Education in Teaching and Learning, having studied at the University of Greenwich. Priti currently runs her courses in Greenwich at The Practice Rooms, continuing the wonderful work pioneered by Dr Graham Chandler and Dr Phil Lawes at the Academy of Oriental Medicine and now teaches advanced methods in acupuncture combining some Tibetan Medicine methods taught by Dr Passang Thopchen.
Her primary acupuncture clinic is located in Greenwich, and she also offers monthly treatments at Sheepdrove Yoga in Lambourn.
Priti is also a yoga teacher deeply inspired by her mentor, Father Joe Pereira, who pioneered the use of Iyengar Yoga in addiction recovery. His lifelong dedication to marginalised communities continues to shape Priti’s belief in yoga as a vehicle for healing and social change. This ethos led her to teach yoga for the homeless at St Vincent’s in London Victoria, offering compassionate care to those most in need as well as regular group classes at Greenwich University.
Priti occasionally covers Group lessons at Sheepdrove Yoga.
Maggie
Maggie headed up an organisation that supported some of the world’s most vulnerable children: street children, children displaced by war, children who were forced to work and denied their right to an education. Her hard work was justice at play: it was easy to build a case for her over-work and over-activity to herself and to others.
Ironically, what gave her the endurance to over-work and not stop much was her yoga practice. Yoga was her super power! Maggie had practiced yogasana almost all her whole adult life and started a daily meditation practice in 2005. Yoga brought her body back into balance after over-work.
Now she is committed to helping others use yoga and meditation as super powers! She deeply believes that the best healing is done through different modalities.
Maggie is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher.
We are hugely honoured that Maggie comes to Sheepdrove bi-annually to cover Jane's Group classes.
