Meet our Teachers

  • Sarah Ball Yoga Tutor at The Sadie Centre

    Sarah Ball YA

    Sarah has been practicing Yoga for over 10 years and recently completed her 200-hour Yoga teacher training in Seasonal Yoga in September 2022.

    Sarah welcomes anyone with an interest in learning more about living seasonally and incorporating movement, breathwork and meditation into their lives.

  • Kerrie Bond

    Kerrie strongly believes that Yoga is for everyone. Being a mum of two girls, she enjoys supporting women on their journey of becoming a mum through teaching pregnancy Yoga and postnatal Yoga. She started practicing Yoga as a late teenager and during her twenties it became a way of dealing with anxiety.
    Yin Yoga with Gillian Cawte Yoga accredited by Yoga Alliance; 85hour Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga with British Wheel of Yoga; 100hour Pranayama course with Mindflowyoga accredited by Yoga Alliance; 500hour Hatha Teacher Training with Mindflowyoga accredited by British Wheel of Yoga & Yoga Alliance.

  • Julie Brunton Yoga Teacher at The Sadie Centre

    Julie Brunton BSY

    Following a successful career as a professional dancer, Julie qualified in 2001 as a Yoga teacher with The British School of Yoga.

    She brings a holistic approach to her Yoga classes, weaving Reiki healing into a calming Yin Yoga practice.

    Julie is a Body Code Health Practitioner and runs a private Reiki practice.

  • Alison Fairchild Yoga Teacher at The Sadie Centre

    Alison Fairchild BWY

    Alison qualified as a Yoga Teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga in 2009 and has been teaching and learning ever since. An eternal student, Alison teaches you how to breathe, and pay attention and be mindful; you will learn to look inwards and trust the wisdom of your own body; you will learn how to connect your yoga practice with the beauty of the natural world and the changing seasons and to take what you experience on the mat and apply it to all aspects of your life. At the end of all Alison’s classes, you will practise Yoga Nidra, the yoga of deep rest, coming home to yourself and the quiet space within you.

  • Carole RIchardson

    Carole Richardson BWY

    Carole has been teaching Hatha Yoga since she trained with the British Wheel of Yoga in 1995, and holds a Further and Adult Education Teacher’s Certificate and the BWY Teaching Diploma. Using a step-by-step approach which allows students to work at their own level and pace with safety, she believes that Yoga can benefit and can be accessible to everyone irrespective of age, background, ability, or physical and mental limitations.

  • Rebecca Skeel Yoga Teacher at The Sadie Centre

    Rebecca Skeel

    Rebecca gained her first Yoga qualification in India in 2014, and 3 years later completed a further 200 hours’ training with Yoga Campus. She has done additional work in Yoga for Anxiety and Depression, in Anatomy and Physiology with Lesley Kaminoff and has trained as a Positive Movement instructor at the Centre.

    Working on the principle “If you can breathe, you can do Yoga”, Rebecca adapts Yoga practices to suit all levels of ability and need. She encourages students to connect breath and movement in order to overcome habitual patterns of movement which can cause pain and instability.

  • Claire Winterbourne

    Claire has been practising Yoga for over 20 years and following completion of her initial 250 hour appleyoga teacher training in Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga in 2017, she studied Yin and Meditation with Sarah Lo. She finds Yoga to be a wonderful guide for navigating the ups and downs of life and her classes – into which she weaves poetry, contemplation and breathwork -- are warm and kind.

  • Lorraine Woods

    Lorraine Woods

    Lorraine’s eclectic background includes training with the British Wheel of Yoga and the Yoga Biomedical Trust. Her approach emphasises a rigorous adherence to correct body alignments and articulates a philosophy which her students use to inform many aspects of their lives.