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YOGA for Healthy Lower Backs

YHLB TEAM SouthWest

The following list shows where and when the specialised evidence-based ‘Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs’ courses are currently being taught in:-

Avon, Cornwall, Channel Islands, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire areas.

Please check for other classes near these counties’ borders.

To be put on a Wait-List fora 12-week Yoga for Healthy Lower Backscourse, please contact the relevant teacher(s).

Please be prepared to wait for a start-date and note that it is essential to pre-book at least a month in advance, as the courses are run with small numbers.

If you do not hear back from the teacher(s), please contact the Area Contact Alison Trewhela (see below) and she will aim to help you find out if and when there is a course running near you.

Locations and Teacher Contact Details

COUNTY
TOWN / TEACHER NAME / CLASS DAY & POSTCODE / TELEPHONE / E-MAIL & WEBSITE

BRISTOL
Bristol / Sara-Jo Cameron / Two classes a week. / 07789 552052 /
Bristol / Em Sawday / Courses soon /
CORNWALL
Falmouth / Amanda Brown / Please contact for details TR11 3QA /

Penryn, nr. Falmouth / Alison Trewhela
Cornwall YHLB Team Lead / Sunday evenings (2 classes in The ZedShed run at 5.30 and 7.15)
TR10 8FG / 01872 865675 /

Launceston / Emma White / Please contact for details
PL15 7SL / 07857 678401 /
St. Austell / Amanda Ridgewell / Monday early evenings and
Thursdays mid-day
PL26 3AT / 07974 524121
01579 321832 /

Perranporth, Penryn / Anna Huette / Courses soon
Perranporth and Penryn /
Penzance / Angelina Lambourn / Courses soon
Newlyn /
Penzance / Alison Trewhela or colleague / Please contact for details / 01872 865675 /

Truro / Alison Trewhela
Cornwall YHLB Team Lead / 1-1s possible at Walsingham Clinic TR1 2RP / 01872 865675 /

Truro / Alison Trewhela
Cornwall YHLB Team Lead / Mondays late morning TR1 3FF / 01872 865675 /

Truro / Ruth Sandall / Please contact for details
Chacewater /
DEVON
Ashburton / Christine Willis / Ashburton Studio TQ13 7QB / 01364 642398 or 07521 715872 /
Bovey Tracey / Kathy North / Day and evenings Liverton TQ12 6JH / 01626 821506 /
Chagford / Christine Willis / TQ13 8AR / 01364 642398 or 07521 715872 /
Cullompton / Various teachers. Contact Alison Trewhela
or Mary Neal / Various days and times. Culm Valley Integrated Health Centre
EX15 1FE / Please contact
Team Lead,
Mary Neal
on 01626 211052 /
(or )
Exeter / Janet Hockley (Walpole) / Ashtanga Yoga Workshop (
Daytimes at The Yoga Studio
EX1 1BQ
Evenings at St. Lukes Fitness Centre, University Campus
EX1 2LU / 07779 784409 /

Exeter / Jennifer Heyworth / Courses soon /
Exminster / JanetHockley (Walpole) / Westbank Healthy Living Centre EX6 8AT / 07779 784409 /

Kingsteignton / Mary Neal / TQ12 3QC / 01626 211052 /
Newton Abbott / Claire Parker / Day and evenings / 01803 868476 /
South Brent / Paula Jones / Courses soon / 01364 72548 /
Tavistock / Sonja Armstrong / PL19 8JZ / 01822 261805 /
Teignmouth / Janet Hockley(Walpole) / Tuesday afternoons
Teign Heritage Centre
TQ14 8ST / 07779 784409 /

Totnes / Claire Parker / Day and evenings. Also 1-1s
Totnes TQ9 6ES / 01803 868476 /
Totnes / Guinevere Wearne / Courses
Broadhampton / 01803 732296 /
Tiverton / Jenny Kane / Courses soon /
SOMERSET
Bath / Angela Roberts / On demand
Rush Hill GP Surgery
BA2 2QH / 07973 736242 /

Bridgewater / Shelagh Gotto / Monday evenings
Somerton TA11 7NL / 07530 606316 /

Shepton Mallett, Bruton / Barbara Saunders / BA10 0DU / 01749 831283 /
Weston-super-Mare / Adrienne Fouracre / BS24 8DQ / 01934 823816 /
Wells / Jo Webb / Wells. Also Bruton / 01749 342035 /
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Badminton / Caroline Carty / On demand / 01249 782787 or 07920 080809 /
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Cheltenham / Kate Plummer / Tuesday evenings.
Cheltenham GL51 3BY
Friday early evenings Cheltenham GL50 2SX
Wednesday evenings
Bishop’s Cleeve GL52 8LU / 07935 221213 /

Stroud / Kim Brockett / Friday afternoons. Also evenings. Painswick
Stroud Yoga Space GL5 2HA / 01452 812623 /

Stroud / Frankie Duggan / Courses soon /
HAMPSHIRE
Andover / Tamsin Kelly / Monday evenings
Stockbridge SO20 6LQ / 07764 949317 /

Brockenhurst / Ruth Bush / New Forest. East Boldre SO42 7NL / 01590 62670 /

Portsmouth / Sanjay Patel / The PhysioTherapy Centre,
Waterlooville PO7 5AB /
Winchester / Rebecca James / Courses soon /
WILTSHIRE
Chippenham / Caroline Carty / Tuesdays mid-day
SN14 7NH / 01249 782787 or 07920 080809 /
CHANNEL ISLANDS
JERSEY / Lisa McCabe / St. Saviour JE2 7QJ / 07797 823749 /

YHLB TEAM South West Area Contact Help:-

Alison Trewhela

Email: OR

Tel: 01872 865675

If you do not hear back from the teacher(s), please contact AlisonTrewhela and she will aim to help you find out if there is a course running near you.

All teachers are on the Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs Institute’s Register of qualified teachers. The teachers are self-employed.

Workplaces, Health & Wellbeing Departments, NHS Commissioners, GPs wishing to discuss how a professional ‘YOGA for Healthy Lower Backs’ teaching team could deliver this course, should please contact:- Alison Trewhela at The Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs Institutevia Email: .

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