Teachers at Urban Grace Yoga

Jane Robinson

I have been practicing yoga for a long time and I am often reminded of the many ways it brings happiness and encouragement to my life.  I am qualified to teach in Iyengar and Anusara styles and have trained with the best teachers in India, USA and United Kingdom.  

I started Iyengar yoga to help restore movement in my neck after a whiplash injury and yoga practice restored full movement in my neck.  15 years into my yoga practice, with lower back problems progressively worsening, I started Anusara yoga.  As I was born with a sacralisedvertebra that caused progressive instability and degeneration, I was delighted to discover that the alignments taught in Anusara yoga, combined with regular studio pilates practice, enabled me to manage the problem so that I am now strong and pain free.  Learning how to conquer these two physical problems has been invaluable for teaching yoga students how to explore ways of healing.  I am often surprised when students expect me to be perfect because I am a yoga teacher. My response is always that I teach yoga because I love finding ways to live with my imperfections. Practicing yoga opens me to perfect moments, and I wish for you to have those too.

I have always been attracted to find ways of inspiring students to align with their own beauty as well as aligning their physical body, and to practice yoga from that place of beauty.   I love to see my students revitalise themselves and restore health, light-heartedness and good will in their busy lives.  

I emphasize alignment principles that support students to find their core and practice from that foundation.  Physical core?  Spiritual core?  For me as a teacher and practitioner, those kinds of boundaries continue to dissolve as my yoga practice matures.