Meet The Team

Rebecca Pyle

Founder of The Yoga Barn

Qualifications

200hrs Yoga Campus Teacher Training Diploma - Yoga Alliance Intl.
250hrs Aerial Yoga Academy Teacher Training - World Yoga Alliance
Aerial Steps Teacher Training Course - Skills Active
30hrs Yoga Campus Sequencing Vinyasa - Yoga Alliance Intl.
40hrs Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga Nidra and Mindfulness
Reiki Level 1 Therapist
Level 3 Emergency First Aid at work

Rebecca’s training with Yoga Campus provided a solid foundation for safe and informed teaching. Known for it’s non-dogmatic and authentic approach, Yoga Campus is one of the top yoga teacher training courses in the UK. Rebecca has also spent time in India studying Ashtanga Yoga at the Purple Valley Yoga retreat.

About Rebecca

Rebecca has over 20 years of teaching experience in her previous roles as a primary school teacher and subsequently teacher trainer. She only discovered yoga in her thirties and after realising what she'd been missing all those years, has since practiced daily! Rebecca found the physical practice of yoga difficult to begin with as she had not previously done any mobility based sports and, like most people, she wasn't very flexible. It didn't take long, however, to realise that having a bendy body is not what yoga is about - luckily!

Her practice is continually evolving to meet the needs of the present moment, whatever that may be. She has come to accept the limitations of her own body and embrace and celebrate whatever does or doesn't happen each day - both on and off the mat. Her pranayama and meditation practices help to keep this clarity and a little bit of calm in the chaos of family life!

As a teacher she believes in keeping her classes simple and accessible so as many people as possible can also experience the benefits, and joy, of a regular yoga practice.

Ellen Delaney

Yoga Teacher & Aerial Yoga Teacher

Qualifications

Aerial Yoga TT, Aerial Yoga Edinburgh
Flexibility/contortion TT, Alixa Flexibility Method
200hrs Ashtanga, vinyasa & Iyengar TT, Himalaya Yoga Valley
Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company Masa Performance Certificate, Israel
BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance

About Ellen

Ellen graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2016 before freelancing as a dance artist in the Middle East.

In the UK, Ellen has worked for leading UK dance companies & was a member of Matthew Bournes’ New Adventures Overture Cohort. Ellen also directed her own dance company where she established international community projects & film.

Ellen decided to pursue a path that studied movement & function & how to help others improve their wellbeing & find a more joyfully experience in their own bodies.

In pursuit of a traditional, holistic & ancient philosophical practise, Ellen went to India & studied under yogacharya Lalit Kumar & graduated with her YTT in 2019.

Ellen now coaches yoga, aerial yoga, & flexibility across East Riding of Yorkshire whilst co-directing an online supplementary training platform Repose Online.

Ellen's style blends traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Iyengar inspired alignment techniques for a specific focus on a dynamic practise to heal the body and mind through self discipline and self study.

Whether you're new to Yoga or experienced in your practise, Ellen welcomes you to begin a journey to develop strength, mindfulness & harmony in both body & mind.

Karen McPherson

Vinyasa Flow and Specialist Pre and Postnatal Yoga Teacher

Qualifications

200hrs YTT Vinyasa Flow – Yoga Alliance Professionals
90 hours Pre and Postnatal Toga teacher training – Yoga Alliance Professionals
Yoga Diploma – Centre of Excellence
BEd (Hons) Primary Teaching Degree
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

About Karen

Karen has over 25 years of teaching experience in her previous role as a primary school teacher and as a university tutor and lecturer training the next generation of primary school teachers.

Exercise has always been an important part of Karen’s life, from competing and representing the county in trampolining in her youth to triathlons and long distance cycle events during her adult years. Karen has practiced yoga at various times in her life; more recently yoga has become a way of life using regular home and class based practices to keep her supple, maintain muscle tone and to find balance and mental stability in her hectic lifestyle.

Karen would like to use her life’s’ experiences and yoga training to nurture and bring a sense of community through yoga flow classes and workshops.

Her Vinyasa flows connect postures or asanas (physical movements and poses) through pranayama (breathing techniques) for a transformative and balancing effect. Classes energise, build stamina, flexibility and strength as well as calming through meditation to balance the mind.

Her Prenatal classes use relaxation with pranayama (breathing techniques) and asana (physical movements and poses) to help strengthening the body, relieve common pregnancy and postpartum ailments and to promote mental and physical well-being and balance at this very special time of our lives.

Her Mum and Baby classes offer a lovely combination of specialised postpartum yoga for mums and gentle baby yoga movements for baby. Designed for new mums to bring the body gently back to alignment, recovering strength and tone in a safe way. It is calming and relaxing for babies, helping their reflexes develop and improving awareness of their surroundings whilst bonding with each other.

Danielle Smith

Meditation Instructor

Qualifications

Certified IPHM (International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine) Meditation Instructor
Nurturing Birth Doula
BA (Hons) International Hospitality Business Management
Crystal Therapy Practioner (IPHM)
Rahanni Celestial Healing Practioner

About Danielle

Danielle is a Mum to two children, two cats and a golden retriever called Allegro :)

After graduating university, she spent several years working in Florida and New York as an event planner and returned to the UK in 2009. After having her first child, she re-trained as a breastfeeding counsellor with the La Leche League and went on to become a qualified pre and postnatal doula in 2013. She worked within the Volunteer Doula and Breastfeeding Peer Support projects in Hull training volunteers to support vulnerable women across Hull.

Then after the birth of her son in 2015, she qualified as a perinatal educator and taught antenatal classes, active birth workshops, baby massage and baby yoga courses for the past four years.

Meditation became an important part of Danielle’s life during a difficult period with anxiety and depression and it took a little time but recognising when she needed to prioritise her own wellbeing - whether that's going for a walk or eating better, or getting more sleep and upon discovering meditation, she realised how accessible it can be for all, no prior experience necessary and how vital a dedicated space to reconnect to who you really are beneath the layers of what society tells you to be is needed!

Danielle describes herself as ‘Always a Mama but also walking alongside you as a Rahanni Celestial Healer, Moonologer & Angel Guide’.

Kat Griffin - All The Aces

Reiki Master Teacher
Reiki Energy Practitioner.
Soundbath Healing Specialist
Creator and Founder of All The Aces.

About Kat

After hitting the floor completely burnt out, nothing left in the tank and not really any inner ability to remember what life was like feeling joy and calm, my head had no space left for kind thoughts, just the weight of intrepid worry over everything...

I found Reiki and Sound Healing, these tools and this work and the decisions for change began.

I quit the big safe secure job, took the massive aligned action, found and followed the kind words and I’m now living a life I once never thought possible where I get to choose and ...

I have never felt more like me.

Incredible connections and beyond exciting opportunities come though again and again because I trusted my inner guidance, believed that I can live my most expansive life and followed through with action and purpose.

I guide my clients by sharing all of the magical tools that brought me back to me...

We’re all meant for amazing things... and yes, that’s you too...

Let’s begin...