BODY CONCEPTS - About Body Concepts

About Us

acorns and old chestnuts

My personal experience of Yoga is that I always end up quietly smiling and at nothing in particular - just my aliveness.

It also makes me smile that, given the underlying principles of Yoga are about creation and destruction, change and growth, our initial plans for our first business venture were considerably different from the outcome!

Karin and I first met at a Yoga class I was teaching, and after five years the seeds of Body Concepts were taking root. A year and a half later we are pleased to welcome you to our vision.

For us, the best aspect of Hatha Yoga is the rich variety of disciplines that have been developed over its long history. Very often centres are dedicated to one particular style: creating a local meeting place for all the best styles of Yoga and Pilates, and in a dedicated environment was our dream.

Khatun

the centre

Body Concepts is centred at the Hinchley Wood Practice, where we have a separate, fully equipped studio in a modern, purpose-built establishment shared with a range of practitioners in various health disciplines.

The Directors of Body Concepts are Khatun Woodham, who also heads the yoga team, and Karin Worthy, yoga enthusiast and business consultant.

about this website

This website is wherever possible constructed to international standards of coding validity, uses open-source technology, and aims to be accessible.

Please email any feedback, particularly if it is encouraging, to the henpecked but eternally optimistic webmaster. Photo

the teachers

Our teaching team combines to give you a wealth of experience:

Khatun Woodham. Director of Body Concepts. Hatha Yoga. Teaching yoga since 1996. Yogabugs instructor Feb 2005. Photo

I do think her top leg could be a bit straighter, don't you?

Rebecca Whitford. Vinyasa Yoga. British Wheel of Yoga. Started teaching 2004, qualified Jan 2006. Philosophy degree from Kings College London 1994 (very useful at times). Photo

Edith Stephan. Karuna Yoga. Yoga Alliance - Karuna Yoga Teacher Training Diploma, December 2004. Photo

Charlotte Palmer Iyengar Yoga Institute, qualified 1996 FRYOG, 2003 IYA

Debby Tomlinson The Pilates Institute, Member of the South African Society of Dancing April 2000. Started teaching 1988. Quaified 1990 and 2002. OCR Level 2 Certificate in Pilates teaching Oct 2003. Honours Diploma in Modern, Jazz and Contemporary Dance, Honours Diploma in Tap Dance. Movement to Music/Exercise Diploma, New York City Ballet certified. Aerobic Dance Instructors course Nov 1995.

Sonia Forde. After benefiting from Pilates in terms of her own physical and mental well being, Sonia undertook a year's Pilates matwork teacher training course with the Pilates Foundation UK Ltd. She completed a further year's training course in Pilates apparatus and now teaches all aspects of Pilates in London and Surrey.

Lisa Clayton-Mitchell. Pilates. Photo

health benefits from yoga and pilates

We believe in a holistic approach to health that includes working closely with medical practitioners and therapists. Several members have written of the health benefits they have enjoyed as a result of Yoga and Pilates. You can read some of their testimonials and see how Yoga and Pilates could help you. Recent research from the US has shown that Yoga can help back pain sufferers recover faster.

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