Claire is the founder of Big Heart Yoga & Wellness – a space rooted in inclusivity, devotion, and the transformational power of practice. With a background in marketing and over two decades in high-pressure roles, Claire first turned to yoga as a way to stay grounded while training for marathons. What began as a tool for balance became a life path.

Claire teaches both online and in-person across group classes, 1:1s, workshops, and events – including for clients such as SXSW. Her teaching honours the roots of yoga, drawing from the Ashtanga Vinyasa lineage and incorporating traditional elements such as breath (prāṇāyāma), bandha, drishti, and mantra.

Her classes are dynamic yet accessible, designed to meet you where you are. In sessions like Gentle Yoga and Wake Up with Claire, you’ll find inclusive options and compassionate guidance. In her more energising offerings – Yogasana and Feel Good Flow – expect strong, breath-led movement to build heat, increase strength, and leave you feeling spacious and uplifted. Hands-on assists and adjustments (always with consent) support you to explore alignment and embodiment in a safe, empowering way.

Claire’s restorative offerings invite deep rest and reconnection. These slower-paced practices blend interoception, breathwork, guided meditation, and yoga nidra to soothe the nervous system and support emotional and physical wellbeing.

Claire holds a 200HR certification with Embodied Beings, is completing her 300HR advanced training with Stewart Gilchrist at East London School of Yoga, and has studied Ayurveda and yoga philosophy extensively, including a 1,600HR Yoga Master programme with Yogamu. Her work is deeply influenced by her personal studies in India and the belief that yoga is for everyone.

Claire is also a L3 Ayurvedic Massage therapist and able to offer massage therapy in the comfort of your home.

Cheryl is a creative, empathic spirit with a deep love for exploring the natural world and the magic within it. As a lifelong learner, she’s constantly reading, journaling, and expanding her knowledge across a variety of interests, from mythology and astrology to yoga and energy healing. Her practice draws inspiration from the cycles of nature, the lunar phases, and elements of ancient traditions, offering a unique blend of spirituality and accessibility to everyone, regardless of their beliefs. Cheryl’s passion for crafting, music, and movement adds a playful and therapeutic touch to her work, encouraging connection with the self and the universal energy we all share.

Rooted in the beautiful surroundings of Shropshire, Cheryl’s family—her two children, a loving husband, and a black cat—provides the foundation for her creativity and adventurous pursuits. With an impressive array of qualifications in yoga, holistic therapies, and mindfulness, she brings a wealth of knowledge and safety to her practice. Cheryl’s mission is to create spaces for growth, healing, and connection, helping others align with their own rhythm and find joy in their journey.

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Claire began practicing Hot & Ashtanga Yoga over twenty years ago primarily as an antidote to anxiety. The practice made such a positive difference to her life that she became passionate about sharing the physical and psychological benefits and has now been teaching for fifteen joyful years. During that time, Claire’s yoga adventure has taken me all over the world, constantly looking to learn more.

Claire’s approach to teaching is playful and supportive while challenging you to gradually expand your ‘comfort zone’ and build the confidence to try new things... hopefully for life, not just on the yoga mat! 

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Jenna has been teaching yoga since 2019, specialising in Hatha and Vinyasa while offering an overall grounding and embodied practice that blends breath, movement, playfulness, energetic awareness, and meditation. Her classes are designed to guide students into deeper alignment with their Self and the sensuous, ever-changing world around them that can often feel chaotic and noisy. Her classes offer a welcoming and inclusive space to tune inward and realign with the ever present stillness and joy within.

Jenna brings elements of Tantra into her classes, a practice of love, full body awareness, sensuality and presence for a richer daily experience in life. Through practices centered on the chakras, sound healing, mantra, and mindful presence, Jenna invites students into a more connected, grounded, and awakened experience of mind, body, and spirit.

Jenna began her journey with Yoga back in 2017 as a means to find connection and purpose in her day to day life, facing a lack of tools and options to deal with her declining mental health. After spending years mindlessly pursuing pathways and careers that did not bring purpose or joy in her life she dove into the deep end and completed her 200 and 300 hour Yoga Teacher Trainings in Bali back to back in 2019. Ever since then Jenna has found a deep sense of meaning and alignment in her daily life, finally able to find joy in the smallest of places.

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With over 17 years of teaching experience and more than 30 years working as a holistic therapist, Jenny brings a wealth of knowledge, compassion and presence to every class she offers.

A Yoga Alliance Senior Teacher, Jenny holds a 500-hour British Wheel of Yoga Diploma alongside specialist training in Yin Yoga (100 hours), Restorative Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. She is also a certified Level 1 and 2 Crystal Singing Bowl Practitioner.

Jenny’s teaching blends gentle Hatha, Yin and Restorative yoga into a deeply nourishing and accessible practice. Her classes invite you to find stillness and harmony in both body and mind, creating space for rest, release and inner connection.

Alongside yoga, Jenny is a highly experienced holistic therapist, offering Reiki, Reflexology, Shamanic Energy Healing, Indian Head Massage, Seated Acupressure and more. Her understanding of subtle energy and deep listening infuses her teaching with a grounded, healing quality that welcomes you just as you are.

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Joe Sharp is a full-time yoga teacher with over 5,000 hours of teaching experience across eight years. He works with organisations, groups, and individuals to support physical and mental wellbeing through movement, meditation, and breath work.

Joe’s teaching style is friendly, positive, and engaging. He guides students with concise, progressive breath-by-breath cues, helping them move safely and effectively while developing strength, flexibility, and awareness. He encourages students to consciously cultivate a heightened state of awareness—so they can move through life with less worry and anxiety, and more steadiness, ease, and joy. He also occasionally tells (dad) jokes.

Joe is passionate about helping all students realise their potential and mentors other yoga teachers to do the same. He trained at Sangyé Yoga School under Cat Alip-Douglas and Phil Douglas, completing an apprenticeship and an advanced Yoga Alliance-certified training. A former international skier, Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor, he also holds an HND in Sports and Exercise Science and a BA (Hons) in Public Relations. Joe is Yoga Alliance-registered and a qualified First Aider.

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Lynn Michelle's journey into the well being arts began 25 years ago when she discovered her first yoga class, here in Telford, at was then, the old Madeley Court School refectory! 

Her teacher inspired her to start her journey which led her to martial arts, Wado Ryu and kung fu, Qigong and Zen.

She completed her training to become a 1st Dan in Wado Ryu, Level 1 Kung Fu coach teaching childrens after school clubs and achieved  teaching diplomas with distinctions as Yoga teacher for adults and children,  Qigong Instructor and Zen Meditation Teacher and Practitioner. 

 Through these disciplines Lynn discovered that kindness is true strength and true strength is kindness. She brings the best of these arts to  her classes so you can feel inspired, uplifted and revived on your own path in life.

Being a carer to my wonderful son who has the biggest, kindest heart ever and has a complex range of difficulties has made me slow down and become more patient in life and has given me a huge insight into the world of disability and what that means in everyday life.

Lynn and her son have found the benefits of a daily practice with accessible, calming moments of stillness & movement. This practice will help you too create an aura of relaxed confidence and gentle strength, revitalising your body & mind 💗

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Maggie Nock ~ Special Yoga Practitioner

Maggie is a Shropshire based Special Yoga Practitioner who works with children and adults with SEND and their families. Since completing her practitioner training in the summer of 2022, Maggie has worked in a variety of settings trading as Wolf Yoga for Special Needs. With a background of over 20 years teaching in Special Education, Maggie delivers the Special Yoga methodology combining the practices of movement, breathwork, relaxation, sound and singing, massage and energy, and mindfulness.

The benefits of Special Yoga include: balanced body and mind; increased body and spatial awareness; development of motor skills; self-regulation; improved posture; flexibility, strength and muscle tone; reduced anxiety and depression; improved sleep quality.

Special Yoga sessions are for all the family, and are ‘grounded in love, respect for ourselves and compassion for those in our care.

Everybody has the right to shine.’ Jyoti Manuel

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Nina is a passionate teacher and loves connecting and passing on the benefits of Yoga & Pilates. Nina’s journey started 13 years ago working at various gyms, teaching a variety of classes for all different abilities.

Training in Pilates 6 years ago, then paved the pathway of interest in the mind and body benefits of Yoga soon after. Currently trained in various disciplines, including Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra.

Robin Aurora has been practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga since 1996 and has been teaching since September 1999.

In October 2003, he qualified as a certified British Wheel of Yoga teacher and has been accredited as an 8000-hour Senior Yoga Alliance registered teacher.

Although having spent 12 years in Mysore, India at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute with Sri K Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Rangaswamy, he considers his main teachers John Scott and Lucy Crawford whom he had studied with regularly for the last 22 years.

He also holds a Teacher Training Diploma from John Scott Yoga.

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