The Kripalu Yoga Teachers at the Yoga Centre, Dorking have been through intense and all round training.

Their training is conducted over a minimum period of 3 years, culminating in 200-hour yoga teacher certification
at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, MA. USA.

All our Teachers are fully qualified and insured and are members of KYTA

(Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association and REPS  Level 3 (Register of Exercise Professionals).

Studio Teachers

Suzie Jennings – Director Kripalu Yoga

Suzie began studying Yoga in 1969 and became a Kripalu Yoga Teacher in 1999. Suzie teaches all levels of yoga and leads many workshops.
She is also known for her best selling CD’s “Quiet Times” and “Yoga Nidra – Light Within the Darkness”
Suzie has published articles in Yoga Magazines. She is the owner of The Kripalu Yoga Centre (UK) which is an affiliated centre to the Kripalu Centre for Yoga and Health – the largest Yoga Teaching institute in the USA.

Suzie’s love for teaching permeates in all that she does; she describes herself as a ‘seeker’. She attended Jeremy Geffen’s (MD)|workshop at The Omega centre in the US on ‘The Journey of Cancer and the Seven Levels of Healing’. This is an area dear to her heart. Suzie continues her quest for yogic knowledge by attending many workshops lead by inspirational yoga teachers, swami’s and Guru’s all over the world.

Suzie runs workshops on Yoga Nidra with Chakra Balancing, Cikitsa Yoga(long holding) for depression and Yoga for people with Cancer. She also teaches at the centre and one to one yoga.

In 2005 Kripalu UK was featured on BBC3 TV and more recently in a full page editorial in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine, March 2009.
Suzie founded the first Vegetarian restaurant in New Brunswick Canada and also the Vegetarian Society NB.

She was nominated ‘Business Woman of The Year’, and was featured in ‘Where to Eat in Canada’. Suzie was also interviewed on CBC radio to discuss Vegetarian options for our Planet.

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Louise Ionascu – The Manager Kripalu Yoga

In 2000 Louise met Suzie Jennings who was offering Kripalu Yoga at the  work place. Louise   knew it would be good to help relieve shoulder and neck tension.

From that first experience and within 6 months Louise begun her studies as a Yoga Teacher and qualified in 2004.  In 2006 Louise studied at the Bio Medical Trust in London.  This was a foundation course in Yoga Therapy from which she graduated with a Diploma in 2008.

Louise feels blessed in being part of the team, teaching full time at the peaceful Kripalu Yoga Centre since 2004.  Brings her own beautiful style to her teaching.

Member of The Register of Exercise Proffessionals Level 3

Initiated Reiki 2 practitioner

 

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Hilary Coplestone Having practiced yoga for many years before joining the Kripalu Yoga Centre
in 2005, I found my home at Kripalu leading me to qualify as a Kripalu Yoga
teacher in 2008 and I have since been actively involved in the teaching
programme at the Kripalu Centre in Dorking. I teach at all levels and I
am a member of the Register of Exercise Professional Level 3.

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Nicole Bowles has been practising yoga for 14 years and has been a student of Kripalu yoga with Suzie Jennings since 2002. The Kripalu method of exploring the yoga of life through personal inquiry led to transformative experiences for her both on and off the mat, inspiring her to embark on the 200 hour yoga teaching training programme at The Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Her intensive training in America was enhanced by additional study with Suzie. Nicole graduated in June 2011 and is delighted and honoured to become a member of Suzie’s teaching team.

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Jo Linington… has been practicing yoga since 1995 and qualified as a Kripalu yoga teacher in August 2006. She then took over teaching the Kripalu yoga classes at the Old Fellows Hall in Dorking and set up her own classes in Guildford. She is currently on maternity leave, looking after the Kripalu Centre’s youngest yogini! Now she is living in Dorking, she is hoping to develop pre/postnatal and baby yoga at the centre.

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Carina Rose teaches Belly Dance Classes and workshops at the Kripalu Centre. She fell in love with this ancient art form and its sacred history at her first class and trained for 7 years with some of the worlds best teachers including Mira Betz, Morgana of the Excalibur dance company, Samantha Emmanuel and Moira Chappell of the Belly Dance SuperStars. She has been teaching for 3 years.  Through this ancient art of sacred dance we can awaken our inner selves to re-establish the lost link to our creativity, feel comfortable and free mind body and spirit. For further information you can contact Carina Rose at dancingrose@live.co.uk

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Visiting Teachers

Danny Arguetty, M.A., E-RYT, has studied and practiced extensively in the Anusara and Kripalu approach to yoga. He blends a mix of skillful alignment cues, playful postures, and creative vinyasa flows to facilitate a heart-opening journey of conscious inquiry. Danny links the potency of asana practice and nature to the possibility of living in the world with mindfulness, skillfulness, and heartfelt intent. He is a faculty member at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and has been involved in Kripalu School of Yoga 200-hr and 500-hr teacher trainings over the last 5 years.

Danny continues to dedicate his time to further study with his primary teacher Dr. Douglas Brooks, one of the leading scholars on Tantra in the West. Arguetty is the author of Nourishing the Teacher: inquiries, contemplations & insights on the path of yoga, and is passionate about supporting yoga practitioners in expanding their practice on and off the mat.

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Dana Moore, LPCC, CADS, is a founding member of the Trauma Center Yoga Program at the Trauma Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Dana is on the board of the New Mexico Counseling Association Committee for Spirituality, Ethics, and Religion in Counseling. He integrates auricular acupuncture, MBSR, and Kripalu Yoga within the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy and maintains a private trauma-focused psychotherapy practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico and via the web. www.danamoore.info

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Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, Amy is the LifeForce Yoga® Facilitator at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposia, and was a Colloquium Speaker at the Boston University Graduate School of Psychology.  She leads PESI Seminars around the U.S. and has offered her trainings at the Cape Cod Institute, the University of Georgia, and the University of Arizona.  She has been a consultant for a number of research projects on Yoga and mental health and is a co-author of “LifeForce Yoga® Mood Study,” published in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy.  She regularly presents at Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, Mount Madonna Center, Sivananda Ashram, Yogaville, and Yoga studios throughout the United States and abroad host her retreats and trainings annually.