Meet the Team

Kathy Ward

Kathy Ward is the Director of Training for the mindfulness based 200hr Therapeutic Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, 500hr Yoga Therapy, Workshops and Yoga Holidays. She is assisted by a team of wonderful people, all specialists in their fields with years of experience. For more information, please see the staff profiles shown below by scrolling down the page.

Kathy has been practicing yoga for over 30 years. She took her first Yoga Therapy teacher training with the British School of Yoga in 2004 and went on to train as a Hatha Yoga Teacher and Professional Yoga Therapist with Integrative Yoga Therapy in 2005. She has diplomas in Clinical Hypnotherapy and NLP Coaching with CBT, Motivational Therapist and Coach.

She has over 27 years experience in Developing People, running Training Seminars, Workshops and Conferences, Coaching and Telephone Coaching, and an in-depth training in Mind-Body therapies specializing in Stress Related illness. She now runs Yoga Teacher Training Courses, Yoga Workshops and Yoga Holidays that blend the therapies and skills together. She also keeps a close eye on the latest research Mind-Body research and incorporates the latest developments, for example using yoga based stress management techniques for Heart disease, the power of positive visualisations with Cancer and other chronic illnesses, Brainwave entrainment and Biofeedback for rapid and long lasting personal change and improved Well-Being.

She has been published in Female Focus, Mind Body Spirit and Golfers Link. She is dedicated to helping others on their individual journey to wellness and developing their true potential. She currently holds the following:-

Professional Certifications:-

• Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the ERYT 500 hour level
• Professional Yoga Therapist at the PYT 500 hour level
• Yoga Therapist (BSYA th) with the British School of Yoga
• Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy and NLP Coaching with CBT (Motivation Therapist & Coach) Dip.C.Hyp.NLP
• Validated Practitioner with the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council
• PADI Advanced Diver & BSAC First Aid

Specialisation courses:-

• Yoga Therapy in Practise
• Pranayama (Breath Therapy) Mudra and Pranic Healing
• Yoga and Ayurveda
• Restorative Yoga
• Somatic Yoga Rehabilitation
• Meridian Therapies and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
• Life Coach
• Performance Coaching
• Stress Management

Professional Memberships:-

Kathy is a Professional Member of the following organisations, she fully abides by their codes of ethics and practices: -

• Mindful Yoga Therapy is a Yoga Alliance Registered School ID 56398 and Affiliate of IYT Integrative Yoga Therapy
• Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT) meeting the Yoga Alliance standards at the experienced 500 hour level - ID 24646
• Professional Yoga Therapist (PYT) supporting member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists - ID 20484
Kathy is progressively updating her skills and knowledge base to ensure she keeps up with the new developments in the complementary therapies field. As part of her professional development, she continues her studies with the advanced 1000 hour Master Yoga Therapist Internship with Integrative Yoga Therapy.

Bodhin Phillip Woodward

Bodhin will join us to teach Meditation on the 200hr and 500hr programmes. He was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist order in India in January 2000 and now runs the Solterreno Retreat Centre in the mountain village of Benimaurell on the Costa Blanca.

Bodhin is passionately interested in working with awareness and the body. The meditation he teaches is Mindfulness, and more specifically Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy, which is a way of using meditation as a tool in getting to know oneself better, increasing self awareness and then working with our mental states to chose again how we want to lead our lives. He also teaches Yin Yoga.

Bodhin works with the body in a very grounded style and his main influences at the moment are Jon Kabat-Zinn and Reginald Ray. Visit the Solterreno website at www.solterreno.es

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Michele Averard

Michele will teach Sounding the Subtle Bodies (Chakras) on the 200hr and 500hr Training programme. She is Co-Director and co-founder of both the Association of Sound Therapy and Harmonic Studies and the International Association of Sound Therapy.

Michele is an Internationally recognised Sound Therapist and singer/song writer and has taught courses in over 15 countries. Together with her husband, Nestor Kornblum they run the Dome Centre, a purpose built Sound Dome in the village of Alcalali on the Costa Blanca.

See Michele on YouTube or visit her website at Global Sound Healing

Trudi van Dorp

Trudi will be joining both the 200hr and 500hr training programmes. She is a licensed full Reiki Master and Teacher and a registered Diploma Dru Yoga and Meditation instructor with post graduate certificates in Yoga for Pregnancy, Yoga for Children, Yoga for Back Pain and Dru Dance.

After 35 years in Primary and Secondary Education, both in the Netherlands and Spain, she is currently offering her services a a Spiritual Life Coach, using the techniques of Reiki, Dru Yoga, Dru Meditation and The Journey.

Visit her website at www.innerpeace.es

Chaitanya S. Das

Chaitanya S. Das is a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and Counselor and he will be joining us for both the 200hr and 500hr programmes. He has explored the knowledge of Ayurveda, Jyotish and Bhakty Yoga, consistently since 1975. Successfully sharing his life experience in his seminars, retreats and consultations, he says that the vedic sciences are " very powerful tools to achieve the Supreme goal of health, happiness and prosperity, which are only possible by having a mindful balanced frame of mind in the multidimensional reality " You can visit his website by clicking here

Dr Aleksander Bjargo

Dr Aleks will be joining the 500hr Yoga Therapy Teacher Training team. He has a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, USA. He specializes in The Gonstead System of analysis which is a highly specific method of making chiropractic adjustments. Dr Aleks regularly recommends both Yoga and Pilates to his clients as a strategy to achieve a stronger and more flexible spine as well as a harmonious lifestyle.

Visit his website at www.quiroalbir.es