Joan Stonehouse - Biography

Joan is a knowledgeable and precise yoga teacher with a wide and varied experience both in the UK and abroad. She has excellent yoga qualifications including certificates at the Manchester Institute of Iyengar Yoga gained in the 1970s and several classes with B.K.S Iyengar. Her work has included teaching varied Adult education classes, stressed Fifth Formers preparing for exams, prisoners at Norwich Men’s Prison and private classes. Joan offers 1 to 1 yoga classes tailor made to accommodate the needs of the individual.

She has taught yoga days and weekends at home and abroad and runs yoga leisure breaks for HF Holidays throughout the UK. Her work with girls in a clinic for Eating Disorders and with pregnant women was featured on national and regional TV and she continues to teach at the Clinic twice a week. She also taught yoga on the P&O Cruise ship “The Arcadia” on its maiden voyage.

Joan has an intuitive and sensitive approach and you can feel confident that she will teach yoga appropriate for all levels of practice, ability and experience.