It's best to come to group classes, but should you need private tuition, we offer one-on-one sessions with the teacher of your choice, as well as group tuition for small groups. Contact your nearest studio to arrange this.

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Michele Pernetta (Director)

Michele has 15 years Bikram Yoga teaching experience. She is also a martial arts black belt, with 8 years experience in Hapkido and Tae Kwon Do and a certified massage therapist which gives her nearly 25 years experience in working with and understanding the body. Michele, having healed her own knees using only the Bikram series, has a special interest in working with people with injuries and difficulties. Michele teaches several times a week and can be found at all 3 centres.
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Mark Oram (Senior Teacher)

While studying fine art in London, Mark was introduced to his first Bikram Yoga class before any established centres existed in Europe - at that time, all classes were held in rented rooms with tiny portable heaters! After experiencing the positive influence that the yoga practice had in all areas of his life, Mark completed the teacher training in LA with Bikram five years ago. Subsequently, he has played an invaluable role in the growth of our centres. He is one of our finest teachers, and we are proud to have him teaching at our schools.

Emma Croft (Senior Teacher)

Emma has been practising Bikram Yoga for over ten years and has been teaching for nearly as long. Having previously worked as an actress, Emma was one of Michele’s first students. She has been working as a teacher since the opening of the first Bikram Yoga schools in Queen’s crescent. Besides coaching the students that entered the U.K. Yoga Asana Championship 2005, she came 3rd third in the women’s category.

Karen Bellfield (Senior teacher)

Karen has a background in psychology, philosophy and counselling and addiction therapy. Her father was a PE teacher and mother was a theologist with special interest in eastern religion, her yoga practise being the perfect synthesis of the two! She has been teaching Bikram for nearly 4 years, and is a qualified yoga therapist, which involves therapeutic use of yoga for specific illnesses and conditions, in 2006. Karen wholeheartedly believes in the healing power of yoga and never ceases to be amazed at its radically life changing effects.

Sanjai Verma (Senior teacher)

Sanjai is a not so secret agent of yoga, travelling the world on missions to spread the light. In days gone by, he used to be undercover, fronting as an accountant. However, he is now so well known that he has abandoned his cover and now practises with reckless abandon wherever he lays his hatha. Showing at a studio near you soon.

Adrian Squirrell

Adrian has always been physically active, running and playing rugby for his school from an early age. However, years of regular crushing by heavyweight rugby players took their toll on his knees. After several years stress induced him to practise Sivananda Yoga. Finding he quite missed the danger of getting crushed, he took up snowboarding. Left virtually unable to move by severe sciatica, his acupuncturist recommended Bikram Yoga. He has now been practicing for four years and teaching for two. His knees are better and he no longer complains about his sciatica, or being crushed by large men.

Rachel Middleton

Rachel is not only a highly regarded teacher, she is refined, elegant, stylish and funky, equally at home in Paris, where she often teaches, as in London. Aside her career in photography, she is a practising yoga therapist.

Nigel Gerald

Nigel is our very own superhero; a judge in the daytime, he manages to rip off his wig and change into his trademark speedos while riding his rusty bicycle to the studio before teaching a rip roaring class. He has just become a father, a remarkable achievement for a man of his age and stature.

Samanth Magee

Samantha has been teaching Bikram Yoga for 2 years and teaches at all 3 studios in London. She was a judge for the 2nd UK Asana Competition and is also a certified Yogabugs teacher and Reiki Master. Sam loves to help students develop their yogic potential.

Katie Krantz

Katie qualified as a Bikram Yoga Teacher in June 2005 after practicing for five years. Her career as Account Director in a large London agency helped her to understand how to work toward harmonization of the mind, body and spirit to help balance a busy life. Her ambition is to help others discover optimal health and happiness though Yoga.

Anna Mott

Anna is happily married with two cats. She suffered with pain in the top C1 to C5 vetebra together with numbness/semi paralysis in her fingers which was identified as 'erosion. wear and tear' by a neurologist. She had three years of physio, but the condition did not go away.  After two months of Bikram Yoga her symptoms disappeared and she has never needed another physio session. She loves her job, loves the yoga and loves what it does for people.

Sarah Buckenham

Sarah has practised yoga for six years. In her spare time, she is head of production at a major television company! She also enjoys travelling (particularly to New York), shopping and running, completing the London marathon in 2002.

Joachim Skibenes

Joachim encountered Bikram yoga in Sydney in 2004. He was initially attracted to it because it provided an excellent physical workout and a mentally cleansing effect.

Joachim feels Bikram yoga encourages you to look after yourself physically, and understand, strengthen and develop your mind.

This realisation lead to a strong passion seeing yoga as an ideal complement to a corporate career. He graduated from teacher training in June 2006 and has been teaching in London ever since.

In class he encourages students to let their expectations go and instead be present and appreciate where their body is for today. Every class is a different journey, that is the beauty of Bikram yoga.

Martin Standring

For most of his life Martin participated in various high impact sporting activities including running, skiing and weight training. As he got older he began to suffer from pain in his knees, ankles and back.

He was introduced to Bikram Yoga and found it gave him a complete cardiovascular workout without impacting on his joints. After only a few weeks he noticed the pain in his knees and ankles lessen.

In 2007 he completed the intensive Bikram Yoga teacher training course and qualified as a Bikram Teacher.

Kate Comer

Kate’s love affair with yoga started long before she trained to teach it. She studied Eastern philosophy as part of her degree and her many travels for both work and pleasure included several extended trips to India. It was while acting in New York that her passion for Bikram yoga blossomed and that same passion drives her journey as both teacher and student.

Harvey Koniak (Director)

After an illustrious career as one the UK's leading stylists with Vidal Sassoon tending to many renowned pop stars and actresses of the sixties, Harvey founded one of the first natural hairdressing salons in the world, inventing finger drying and bendy rollers, now staples of the industry worldwide. He completed his training with Bikram in LA in 2003 at the age of 57, winning the Bengal Tiger award for strength and stamina. Harvey feels blessed to be able to bring health, strength, flexibility and vitality to so many people as a teacher and facilitator. Look out for his smiling face in one of the studios soon!
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Heidi Muschallik

Heidi has been teaching Bikram for about two years and says that this is the first time she has ever felt truly rewarded in her work. The most satisfying thing for her is seeing how this yoga helps to improve and strengthen students' bodies and minds and knowing that she is involved in this process.

Lisa Houghton

Lisa brings over eight years of yoga experience to her teaching. Having travelled extensively throughout the east, she teaches from her own evolved daily personal practice, guiding people to listen to their bodies whilst focusing on core strength, proper alignment and breath direction for healing and expansion. She studies yoga philosophy and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as a way to inspire her own practice and that of her students.

Gabrielle Hawson

An avid student of Bikram Yoga for 7 years, Gabrielle has a degree in bodywork therapy. She has taught in Texas, Jersey Channel Islands & now London since 2004. Gabrielle participated in athletics and cross-country at junior international level. She enjoys surfing, swimming, cycling and travel. Gabrielle believes that the body heals itself and that therapists act as a catalyst to one's innate healing capacity; by treating the body with care and respect through good diet, exercise, fresh air, yoga and positive thoughts, a healthy balance will be achieved in your body and life.

Naomi Reynolds

After studying at the Royal Ballet School, Naomi joined the Royal Ballet Company at the age of 17. After five years and numerous injuries, she retired and found yoga. She went to the Bikram Yoga training in Autumn 2003 and had a wonderful time learning and making great friends, some of which she feels privileged to teach with now. Naomi won the First European Asana Championsips in 2004. She is always furthering her knowledge of yoga and enjoys taking part in inspiring workshops. She also teaches pregnancy yoga and has re engaged with the theatre, by warming up dancers and actors for their performances!