Emma is the founder of The Centre and is passionate about sharing yoga, Shiatsu and complimentary health to the people of Nicosia. I took my first yoga class when I was 17, and over the last 18 years my mat has been a source of comfort and support.
Living in London for 33 years gave me access to train and learn with some of the top teachers in the world. I was able to try a huge variety of styles and approaches. It was a great experience and as often as I can I travel back to London to top up my trainings. My first teacher training was in Sivandana yoga.
I used to live near the Sivandana Centre in London and enjoyed the classes that I attended so once I quit my stressful, but successful project manager job in television, I headed to India. I was there for three months, one of which I spent in a Ashram in Maduri, living and studying the yogic life. It was a great experience, and led to a hour yoga teaching qualification. From the first class I noticed a change in me; The more I practiced, the more that surges of empathy would overwhelm me.
I would say I am a loving and open person, but for a long time I felt blocked to express it, or fearful of getting attached and hurt. The physical and philosophical principals of the Tantric practices of Anusara helped me to be braver about opening my heart, through the good times, and the bad. A year later I started my second hour yoga teaching qualification In Anusara yoga. By this point I had moved to Cyprus and was teaching and giving Shiatsu, but every month I would fly back to London to train with my teacher Bridget Woods-Kramer at the renowned Triyoga studio.
Just as I was coming close to completing the Anusara Elements teacher training I was invited to join the first YogaWorks teacher training running in Cyprus. Since that time I felt a pull towards yoga specifically for woman and woman's needs.
