Meet Charlotte
Charlotte's work as a yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer and nutritional therapist over the last few decades has had a focus on how we bring together our whole selves in movement, nourishment, expression and self-care. This includes a recognition of the psychosocial stresses so prevalent in our modern world and the traumas that we hold in our tissues, as well as our emotional states.
In her yoga and movement work, this has meant shifting towards a more somatic framework, with an emphasis on exploring boundaries and processing of the stories we hold in our bodies. Using yoga philosophy and psycho-neuro-endo-immunology as a framework to hold kind, curious exploration, trains, yoga, teaches and other health professionals, movement and subtle practices that support whole health.
For yoga teachers and other health professionals, she runs courses, training, teachers, in somatic, therapeutic and mindful ways of holding space for others so that they have the curiosity and agency to support themselves. Charlotte runs courses and teaches for Yogacampus, London, and is a guest lecturer for The Minded Institute.
She teaches how to use movement, not simply in the context of what we can do physically, but as a way to attune, listen and respond to our deeper, often unconscious needs. In her more specifically, health-focussed courses, (digestion, immune and respiratory health and books on these subjects), she weaves how the relationships between body, breath, fluids and our structure are part of one highly responsive organisation.
For the general public, Charlotte teaches classes in Brighton and London, workshops, UK yoga weekends and retreats abroad.
Charlotte is an author with many published books, including Yoga and Somatics for Immune and Respiratory Health (Singing Dragon 2022), Yoga Therapy for Digestive Health (Singing Dragon 2018), Good Mood Food (Nourish 2018) and The De-Stress Effect (2015).
Charlotte is also an award-winning nutritionist*, practising since 2000 and specialising in stress and trauma, fatigue conditions and burnout, and digestive issues. She has been a tutor and programme leader for the Institute of Optimum Nutrition and lectured for the College of Naturopathic Medicine. Her nutritional work feeds into her yoga teaching, teacher training and writing from a deep understanding of body processes, and what we need to support whole health from all directions.
Charlotteā€™s yoga journey
Charlotte attended her first yoga class in 1996 and immediately knew that it would be a large part of the route to overcoming her stress and trauma-related, digestive, mood and energy issues. She trained at the Vajrasati Yoga School in Brighton (500-hour Yoga Alliance training) founded by Jim Tarran who is influenced by Iyengar Yoga and Buddhism and emphasised the natural mindfulness aspect inherent within yoga. This was the beginning of a relationship with yoga practice that focuses on taking time and finding space to feel the subtleties of the experience and a relationship with embodied awareness.
This naturally fed into exploration of more fluid, fascial, primal and expressive movement patterns to meet the state of yoga. This move towards including more Somatic work has meant including influences from the work of sources such as Thomas Hanna, Moshe Feldenkrais, Simon Low and Qi-Gong.
Charlotte has trained in teaching yoga for people with ME and Chronic Fatigue with Fiona Agombar and teaching for chronic pain with Heather Mason, continuing her interest in yoga as therapy for anxiety, depression and stress states. She deepened her mindfulness practice as a result of a specific mindfulness course for yoga teachers with Cathy-Mae Karelse. She has studied with teachers Tias Little and Joanne Avison as they combine her love of mindful, somatic practice, yoga as meditation, the contemporary anatomy of biotensegrity and an explorative and compassionate attitude ā€“ alongside attention to alignment with respect to the individual needs of students. She has also studied with Judith Lasater, Donna Farhi, Gary Carter and a host of other wonderful teachers.
*CAM (now IHCAN) Award for Outstanding Practice 2012
The Official Stuff
- Winner of CAM Award for Outstanding Practice 2012
- Member of British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT) and adhere to their codes of practice and continual learning
- Nutritional Therapy Council (NTC) and Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) Registered Practitioner
- Have tutored at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition and lectured at the College of Naturopathic Medicine; now lecturing for The Minded Institute, the Yogacampus Yoga Therapy course and mentoring other practitioners.
- 500 hour Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher with additional training for CFS/ stress/ mental health/ burnout
- Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals (UK)
- Yoga Alliance registered Yoga Teacher TrainerĀ Professionals (UK) running many further trainings for yoga teachers, includingĀ for Yogacampus, London
- Yoga Alliance (US & global) certified E-RYT, signifying over 4,000 hours teaching time
- Registered practitioner of The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) - a sound-based therapy devised by Dr Stephen Porges for nervous system reset.
Ways to Connect with Charlotte
Free group
Join Charlotte's free Yoga Teacher Community to connect with and support one another.
Have questions?
It can be helpful to speak to Charlotte in person about anything related to the courses, and you are welcome to book a 15-minute consultation anytime.
Sample Videos
Watch full class video examples of Charlotte's Somatic and Therapeutic Movement classes to experience how she teaches
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