Have you ever taken a walk through the woods with someone so at ease with their surroundings that the birds fly down and rest on their shoulder?  Penny is this much in harmony with nature and this atmosphere permeates the classes.  Once a bird spent most of the class perched up above the students, just watching.  After an hour it flew down and settled calmly on the window ledge nearest to Penny, as if asking to be let out.  A student opened another window and Penny gently wrapped her hands around the tranquil bird, carried it to the open window then reached out and opened her hands.  The little bird remained there for a while as if unwilling to leave, then, as if saying thank-you, tipped it's head and looked back, unfolded its wings and slowly lifted up into the air.

This is the atmosphere around Penny who is a Yogini, one who does not just the Yoga poses but one who lives according to Yoga Teachings.

Penny loves Yoga and loves teaching it.  She was described by a formal Assessor as having taken "one of the best classes I have ever seen" and many students say she is the best teacher they have ever had.

Traditionally one would not teach Yoga unless selected by your own Teacher and told you were ready.  Penny is one of those now rare Teachers.  Qualified in India and the UK, first she qualifed as a British Wheel of Yoga Teacher and was immediately asked to join the Council of the Wheel.  She declined and went on to study much farther and now holding RYT 500 is qualified to teach other Yoga Teachers how to teach Advanced Yoga.  Her studies have covered many Yogas with special interest in Kriya Yoga and the teachings amongst others of Iyengar, Desikachar and favourite Selvarajan Yesudian.  In the last 10 years she has studied and practised with three great Yogis, two also fully-qualified doctors, Uma Krishnamurthy (granddaughter of the great J Krishnamurthi) who focusses on the Philosophy, Spirituality, Yoga Therapy mainly the mental and emotional effects, and Sanskrit, and, to complement Uma, Sri Krishna Bhushan an expert in the physiological effects of Pranayama and Kashmir Yoga.

Penny worked in a Psychiatric Hospital from 1978 until her three children were born.  Then she worked for Birmingham University with the President of the World Psychiatric Association on research for the World Health Authority.  She believes this understanding of psychology is what makes her deep relaxations so releasing and effective and enables her to relate Yoga philosophy to everyday life and to explain to people how they can themselves counter the negative effects of stress, feel happier, more secure and more confident.

Penny leads Yoga sessions in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire