About us
Dawn
Adult & Children’s
Yoga Teacher
Dawn found yoga in 2013 shortly after her son had been born. She was working long hours as a Primary school teacher at the time and with two young children at home, life was hectic to say the least. Yoga made her feel as if she had come home to herself.
Dawn soon qualified as a Children’s Yoga Teacher and began sharing the magic of yoga with the children she taught. She has been successfully teaching yoga and mindfulness in schools across the primary age range for 10 years.
Dawn completed her 300hr Adult Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga Kula in Leeds. This is when her vision for an Earth Tree Yoga Studio was born. Dawn believes that yoga is for every body and hopes that Wetherby’s first dedicated yoga studio can be of real service to her local community. Yoga has brought so much gratitude, peace and joy to Dawn’s life. She hopes to see you on the mat and share yoga with you too!
Pratibha
Yoga Teacher
Pratibha believes you can’t choose Yoga, Yoga chooses you. She was initiated into the traditional formats of spirituality and connecting with innerself by her parents and gurus at the age of 5 where she learnt and practiced meditation, mantra chanting, bhakti/devotion and service.
Pratibha’s urge to undertake some soul searching and find peace in the moment instead of running after life, made her gather the courage to give up her corporate HR career for Yoga 4 years ago and undertake her 200hrs YTT. Pratibha teaches intuitively and creates safe spaces that enable her students to be themselves. Every class is an inspiration to create harmony in life, develop physical and mental strength and feel free in mind and body.
Jodi Johnston
Yoga Teacher
Jodi qualified as a yoga teacher in 2016 having found so many benefits from a personal practice throughout her adult life.
She is particularly interested in the philosophy of yoga and its prescriptions for a life well-lived not just through the physical practice but through its psychological approaches. Jodi’s classes focus on improving your relationship with yourself and on finding relief from common areas of stress in the body. Expect to leave feeling like a lighter, brighter version of you.
Nerine Pal
Yoga Teacher
Nerine is a senior teacher. With a background in dance, she sought out yoga more than 20 years ago as a way to alleviate stress. She acquired her first teaching certification in 2015 and has since accrued nearly 1000 hours of training all of which inform her unique synthesis of Gentle Hatha, Restorative, Therapeutic, and Menopause Yoga.
Through somatic awareness, Nerine empowers students to discover variations that make yoga accessible for their individual physical, mental, and emotional needs including the inflexible, curvy, and those with chronic conditions. Her teaching style is inspired by Ayurveda working in harmony with the seasons and offers a secular approach to facilitate an inclusive environment.
Fran Crossland
Yoga Teacher
Fran discovered Yoga over a decade ago and more recently completed a 300 hour training. Through her own personal journey, Fran has developed a deep appreciation of how Yoga can help to heal, bringing the mind and the body back to union. She loves all styles of Yoga from Vinyasa Flow to Yoga Nidra but is specifically passionate about self-enquiry, discovery and emotional wellbeing which she hopes to share with her classes.
Leanne Clayman
Yoga Teacher
Having experienced burnout after spending many years in highly demanding stressful jobs, Leanne turned to yoga in order to re-regulate her own nervous system and now enjoys sharing with others the various tools yoga offers to promote healing and deep rest.
It was during her 300 hour teacher training that Leanne developed a passion for Yoga Nidra. She believes that Yoga Nidra is a magical and deeply powerful practice with the ability to facilitate regulation of the nervous system and provide deep nourishment and healing to all.
Leanne’s unique approach to teaching involves the use of Yoga Nidra, somatic exercises and breath work combined with gentle sounds and poetry.
