Teaching staff
Zoi Chisholm
Yoga for the Special
Child®LLC Licensed Teacher
Zoi has been practicing yoga in 1995. She worked for Capability Scotland enabling
adults and children with physical and learning disabilities until 2000 when she
stopped work to raise her young family. Zoi qualified from Chi Yoga School Scotland
in August 2005, and continues her yoga studies in Integral Hatha Yoga under the
guidance of her guru Sonia Sumar, founder of Yoga for the Special Child, LLC,
graduating as a Integral Hatha Yoga teacher in August 2009. She also has a
Radiant Child Yoga Programme certification.
For Zoi, she recognises her
life's work in her children and for all who have special needs. She was blessed
to find out about the work Jo Manual was doing in London
in The Special Yoga Centre and inspired by Jo to make Yoga genuinely available
to all in Scotland. She was instrumental in setting up the
charity Yoga Health and Therapy Centre in Scotland for promoting yoga to
children and adults with special needs in 2007 which sadly closed in June 2009
due to lack of funding for its work.
Miraculously, Zoi together with Caroline Forbes (Sing and Sign) managed
to open Perth’s Yoga Space in August 2009 to continue her work offering yoga
and Sing and Sign in Perth and Dundee.
Zoi also teaches Yoga for people with sight impairments
at P & K Society for the Blind, New Row, Perth.
Please call the Blind Society 01738 626969 to join the class if you are registered blind or
if you are a carer of children or adults with visual impairments.
Zoi has two wonderful children one of whom has autism. Her
children enjoy doing yoga. It is the gift of her daughters, one full of
compassion for all life and the other with autism for whom yoga is so innate
and part of her way of being, that Zoi continues her work and training.
Marianna Buultjens
Yoga
for the Special Child®LLC
Licensed Practitioner
Yoga Scotland Teacher
Marianna
has over 40 years experience teaching in schools and teacher training. For 33 years
she has specialised in children with visual impairment, additional impairments
and staff development with their teachers. She first did yoga in the 1970s and
after retiring from her educational teaching and lecturing, Marianna commenced
her Yoga teacher diploma (500 Hours) with Yoga Scotland, qualifying in June 2008,
the Radiant Child Yoga Programme Levels in September 2008, and Basic
Certification and Advance Level 1 of Yoga for the Special Child, LLC in January
2009. Marianna currently teaches yoga to children with visual impairments in
Dundee, parent & baby classes and yoga therapy to children in the Dundee area.
Ros Dalgliesh
Ros started yoga when she was 10 years old and as an adult has
practiced Hatha, Dru and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.
Ros qualified from Chi Yoga
School Scotland
in August 2006 and the Radiant Child Yoga Programme in September 2008. Ros has a young family of three boys and is
passionate about yoga for children from birth and for life.
Caroline Forbes,
Sing & Sign
Being a parent of a son with special needs, Caroline realises the
importance of early intervention and communication with ALL children at an
early age. Sing and Sign not only gives the babies a chance to communicate
before speech, but it is great fun too. Caroline has signed to both of her
boys, Scott who has delayed speech still signs and his brother Tom has advanced
vocabulary for his age. She attended
Sing and Sign classes in Edinburgh and when her
family moved to Perth
5 years ago. Caroline thought it would
be a great opportunity to share the benefits of Sing and Sign in Perthshire and
Dundee.
She has had many fantastic signing babies and happy parents go though the
sing and sign curriculum. Caroline is
the co-founder of Perth’s
Yoga Space Tel: 07916 351 678 www.singandsign.com
Independent teachers at
Perth’s Yoga Space
Dawn Gillies (Pilates/Kick boxing/Salsa): 07753 431174
Jann Heigh is a fully qualified
Personal Trainer - Register of Exercise Professionals no R0035755.
She practices and teaches a version of modern Pilates which is based on
ensuring that clients understand, can build and practice quality body alignment
in their day-to-day activites. It is real mind/body programme.
Jann is also a Senior, Qualified
Clinical Hypnotherapist; Coach; NLP and CBT Practitioner. More
information available on www.balancingyourlife.co.uk or she will welcome your call on 07702
234689.
Lynn Almond (Tai Chi) started
practicing Tai Chi in 1998 and have been learning bare-hand and weapons forms
from then. Her first teacher was Iain
Naylor of the Hands of Light School. She has attended Tai Chi Caledonia for
most years and is familiar with the Rainbow Fan Form, the Traditional Yang
sword form and various Chi Kung sets and forms.
Since 2001 Lynn has been studying
regularly the Traditional Yang long form with Shelagh Grandpierre based in
Nottingham, and goes to the occasional UK
workshops taught by her master, Christopher Pei, the President of the United States Wushu Academy.
Her other love at present is horse riding, which she
started in 2006, and in that year was able to attend a workshop “Tai Chi for
Equestrians”, taught by James Shaw, an internationally known riding coach.
I have also recently been on two study trips to China.
Lynn
has been teaching Tai Chi since 2001 when she took over Iain’s Perth class. Recently, she has taken over another of his
classes in Dundee. She teaches Yang Style forms - a Short Form
and the 24 Step Form.
June Mitchell
June qualified as a yoga teacher in the Sivananda method in l976/77
under the tuition and guidance of William Mowat Thompson, Founder/Principal of
the Scottish Yoga Centre,
Edinburgh and Dr. Arthur de la Poer Rowbothem, Psychiatrist, Philosopher and
Vedantist. Her certificate in Hatha Raja Yoga was given ‘With Merit’
in the first yoga teacher training course held in Scotland. She continued further training with many of
the country’s leading Sivananda and Iyengar teachers in the seventies and
eighties, combining yoga teaching and study with raising her sons.
In l98l June launched Perth Yoga Centre, the second of its
kind to be established in Scotland
after the Scottish Yoga Centre in Edinburgh. Perth Yoga Centre created a foundation for
the flourishing of complementary medicine in the area during the l98O’s,
initiating the first-ever workshops and teaching groups in many aspects of this
now established and significant part of our health awareness in Scotland.
In l992 she completed a
Certificated Course in Yoga Therapy for
Low Back Pain through the Yoga
Biomedical Trust in London
and taught by Indian Orthopaedic Consultant and Yoga Teacher, Dr. D. G.
Dongaonkar. In l993 June founded the Riverside Centre in Perth where at any
given time between ten and fifteen teachers and natural health therapists
worked, offering holistic health treatments to the community and which was
twice short-listed in the Business Excellence Awards initiated by the Perth
Chamber of Commerce – seen as being innovative and influential in its field.
She now runs classes in
Perthshire and Glasgow with a team of CYS teachers, as well as the Chi Yoga Centre in Glasgow with its founder, Julie Hanson. In the Spring of 2OO3, furthering her
enthusiasm for the Ashtanga Vinyasa
system of yoga, she completed an Intensive Yoga Teacher training with Paul
Dallaghan, Founder/Director of Centered
Yoga, Yoga-Thailand and Certified International Ashtanga Yoga Teacher,
becoming the first person in the UK to have this worldclass training which has Yoga Alliance International
Certification. She is also a direct
student of the Ashtanga guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, having spent time studying
and practising at the AYRI in Mysore, Southern India. Since 2OO3 June and Julie founded CYS Scotland and CYS London in 2006,
an Independent Yoga School offering the highest standards in yoga teacher training. Tel: 01350 728773
www.junemitchellyoga.co.uk
