About: Biog, Books & Yoging
YOGA & MUSIC
A musician before all else, Hannah teaches to the steady 4/4 beat of music she produces especially for class. With the breath tied to the music and movement tied to the breath, a focus and stability can be found and maintained, all at a pace of breathing that keeps students in a parasympathetic nervous system state. ABOUT HANNAH After a childhood in The Royal Ballet, Hannah studied at Cambridge University where she specialised in magic, early science and female pirates. Eschewing a life on the seven seas, she went on to train at the Royal Academy of Music, and to perform in the West End while also writing and producing for TV and Radio (ITV, BBC). She also spent two peculiar years as a Magician's Assistant. Hannah is a published author of non-fiction, and continues to ignore her half-finished novel. YOGA & QIGONG Amongst the madness, she found yoga, and what began as a dancer's escape from the stage soon became a daily discipline. Hannah began her training in Ashtanga in India, spending time in Mysore under Sri Sheshadri, before training in Larry Schultz's Rocket, Mandala Vinyasa with TYP, Yin, and Qigong. She has been sharing the yogi love in studios across London for over 11 years. All of Hannah's dynamic classes, from Ashtanga to Rocket, are influenced by her time spent under the guidance of coccyx control master and Senior Iyengar teacher, Alaric Newcombe, who has saved her noodle-like hyper-mobile limbs on multiple occasions. From Iyengar and yin, she brings the importance of finding and working with your specific anatomical make-up in order to find your particular alignment. In her slower more expansive flows, she has been influenced by the spinal fluidity work of Simon Borg-Olivier and the Qigong-yoga-body work fusion of Matthew Raymond Cohen, as well as her own dance background. |
BOOKS
Hannah has also written a book on the ethics of yoga in the modern world - Greed, Sex, Intention: living like a yogi in the 21st century - an attempt to apply the ethical do's and do not's of the ancient Yoga Sutras to a complex modern life. It is available in all the best yoga studios, bookstores and on Amazon (in paperback or Kindle) here. A second book, part-satire-part-guide, How to Win At Yoga: Finding your Selfie, published by Penguin/Ebury also escaped in 2019.
If you’d like to read more of Hannah's journalism, you can read various Telegraph articles on what no one tells you about becoming a yoga teacher, and on how Instagram Yoga became the ultimate cultural paradox.
For literary enquiries, please contact Gaia Banks at Sheil Land Associates.
WITH THANKS
Hannah sends huge gratitude to all her teachers, on and off the mat, along the way.
For more information, or to book a private/corporate session, say hello HERE.
Photos © Steven Zwerink
Hannah has also written a book on the ethics of yoga in the modern world - Greed, Sex, Intention: living like a yogi in the 21st century - an attempt to apply the ethical do's and do not's of the ancient Yoga Sutras to a complex modern life. It is available in all the best yoga studios, bookstores and on Amazon (in paperback or Kindle) here. A second book, part-satire-part-guide, How to Win At Yoga: Finding your Selfie, published by Penguin/Ebury also escaped in 2019.
If you’d like to read more of Hannah's journalism, you can read various Telegraph articles on what no one tells you about becoming a yoga teacher, and on how Instagram Yoga became the ultimate cultural paradox.
For literary enquiries, please contact Gaia Banks at Sheil Land Associates.
WITH THANKS
Hannah sends huge gratitude to all her teachers, on and off the mat, along the way.
For more information, or to book a private/corporate session, say hello HERE.
Photos © Steven Zwerink